Technology of Beauty Grant Stevens

In our next installment of The Entrepreneurs of Aesthetics, where we invite innovative aesthetic business owners to break down how they built their practices from the ground up, we welcome Nicci Levy, CEO & Founder of Alchemy 43.A rising beauty mogul who began her career working a mall cosmetics counter, she leaned on a decade of corporate cosmetics experience at MAC Cosmetics, Nordstrom, and Calvin Klein Beauty to found Alchemy 43.Now celebrating Alchemy 43's 8th anniversary with a total...

"60 million women in the US alone have cellulite. And even if we winnow that all the way down to who can afford it, who's so bothered to do something about it, we're still talking about 6 million women."For all of the many successes in the beauty business, efforts to address cellulite have most commonly resulted in failure. That doesn't alter the fact that women want a solution for beauty below the waist — and it looks like Revelle Aesthetics CEO Caro Van Hove has an answer in the Avéli cellu...

Dr. Joe Hunstad is a true titan of the aesthetics industry. The inventor of seven unique surgical operations, he is also the author of "The Atlas of Abdominoplasty", an internationally acclaimed speaker, a former Director of The Aesthetic Society, and the past President of HKB Cosmetic Plastic Surgery.A highly-renowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Hunstad was once named the "Best Plastic Surgeon in America" by Castle Connolly, and he has delivered hundreds of scientific presentations, as well as seve...

"I think fat is the future. It's the largest source of adult stem cells in the body, and it's the lowest hanging fruit."Out of all the topics we've covered as we approach our 100th episode of The Technology of Beauty, regenerative aesthetics might be the most exciting of them all. Just imagine telling a patient, "We can remove excess fat from your thighs and use it to make you look younger and healthier."Once the stuff of dreams, regenerative aesthetics may soon become a scientific fact. And ...

Marketing to the patients already in an aesthetic practice represents a massive opportunity for brands and clinics alike — one that remains sorely underleveraged in a large majority of cases. The problem: How to cleanly and clearly promote the right offerings to the right patients at the right moment. There's no sense in advertising RF microneedling to a patient with an appointment for said service — but why not provide them with a physician-grade skincare option alongside a QR code for ...

One of the pitfalls of physician-grade skincare in the age of e-commerce is the Amazonification of elite product lines. But what if a company developed a patented technology to eliminate diversion and counterfeiting so that products are always professionally dispensed?Dan Hopkins is here to tell us how his team found the answers. While remaining exceptionally physician-focused, AlumierMD was conceived to service an unmet need: medical-grade skincare, produced in a socially responsible way, th...