The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - #130: Dr. Jason Diamond - The Art Of Facial Plastic Surgery, Facial Reconstruction, Rhinoplasty, Facial Rejuvenation, & The Golden Ratio
Episode Date: August 14, 2018On this episode we dive into the world of facial surgery with Dr. Jason Diamond. Dr. Diamond of the Diamond Face Institute is a top facial plastic surgeon in his field and has helped thousands of pat...ients achieve a more youthful, natural-looking appearance with the wide range of facial surgical procedures that he provides. Dr Diamond Chooses to not dilute his focus and concentrates exclusively on the face. Some of his patients include the Kardashians, Amber Rose, Erika Jane & Kate Upton to name a few. He is double board certified and was once on the popular show Dr. 90210. In this episode we cover topics like facial reconstruction, the golden ratio, facelifts, rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, plastic surgery and more. To connect with Dr. Jason Diamond click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) WOO FOR PLAY is the all natural and organic coconut love oil that is changing the way we have sex. With only 4 all natural ingredients WOO is the perfect personal lubricant to spice up your sex life. All Him & Her Listeners will receive 20% off your entire order plus free shipping when when visiting www.wooforplay.com & using promo code HIMANDHER at checkout. This episode was brought to you by Fabletics. Your new go to for all athletic wear. Fabletics is offering our listeners an incredible deal you don’t want to miss: Get 2 leggings for only $24 a ($99 value) when you sign up for a VIP membership. Just go to Fabletics.com/skinny to take advantage of this deal now. International shipping is available and there is absolutely no commitment when you purchase your first order!  Fabletics.com/skinny Terms and conditions apply. This episode is brought to you by THRIVE MARKET. We use Thrive for our online grocery delivery on a weekly basis. They provide the highest quality products and ingredients delivered straight to our door with unbeatable prices. Be sure to grab our deal by going to to https://thrivemarket.com/skinny to receive 25% off your first order + free shipping and a 30 day trial.
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She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur.
A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride.
Get ready for some major realness.
Welcome to the Skinny Confidential.
Him and her.
Aha!
The craziest thing probably, this guy who was a body modification guy,
and he had every modification you could have he had you
know the huge earring stretch things he had the the full nose pierce all over place he had his
tongue split down the middle all these things i'd seen before he had earrings in his eyelids like
that i had never seen before he had he had like metal balls implanted under his forearm i'd never
see it was just nasty stuff but he had something i'd never seen before and that was horns implanted under his forearm. I'd never seen, it was just nasty stuff, but he had something I'd
never seen before. And that was horns implanted in his head. He had these horns implanted his
head to look like a demon or a devil. And they were silicone horns that somebody put in,
in some basement. The guy wanted them removed now because he wanted to start
like normalizing his life. Welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show.
If you are new to the show,
thank you for joining. That clip was from our guest of the show today, Dr. Jason Diamond.
On this episode, we dive into the world of facial surgery, covering topics like facial
reconstruction, the golden ratio, facelifts, rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, plastic surgery,
and more. Guys, what's up? I'm Lauren Everts. I'm the creator of The Skinny Confidential,
blog, a book, a brand, and a podcast. And I'm Michael Bostic. I'm an entrepreneur and
business operator, most recently the co-founder and CEO of Dear Media, a podcast network focused
on the digital space and female voices. And you're the proud owner of New Boobs.
I, in a way, am the proud owner of new boobs because you have new boobs. I was greasing
them up this weekend. I know. What's going on with you, man? There's kids out there. There's kids.
There's parents. They're trying to have breakfast. There's kids out there trying to relax. There's
dads and moms. And you're out there with these things flopping around. You're going to knock
someone out with those cannons. When you get a new car, you drive it around in the most obnoxious
way. So when I get new boobs, they're going to hang out for like a year. I'm all for it. You do you be confident woman, hear you roar, whatever you want
to do. But how long are we going to be doing this for? What if you got a dick implant? You would
want it like bunched up in your jeans for a good year. No, in my case, I'll need to get a reduction.
A reduction. Yeah. It's too much already. You know what I mean? All right, guys, remember that there was two episodes last week. Episode 128
was with Emily Schumann and Jeffrey Fuller from the brand Cupcakes and Cashmere. And then we had
Rachel Hollis on Thursday, who is a bestselling author. She wrote Girl, Wash Your Face, which is
currently crushing it on Amazon's top charts. Make sure you check out both of those episodes because they're both gems.
So yes, I love both those episodes. I'm so irritated because I was listening to this episode and I was editing it and it's when I was sick. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not going to
talk about how you're sick. No, no, no, no. Trust me. I'm not going to talk about how I'm sick,
but my voice is a little off, which sounds right. But then I started thinking about how I was
irritated. And then I started thinking about some of the dogs that I saw this weekend and some of
the dog owners. And I got even more irritated. There are so many shitty dog owners out here.
It just really pisses me off. It grinds my gears. It's way too hot. These guys are out here. They're
dragging their dogs around. The feet are burning. They're leaving them strapped up to these posts
and the dogs can't breathe and they're panting and they're not getting water. It just pisses me off. What makes you more mad
than a dog not being treated at a hundred percent level at all times? I mean, oh my God, it makes me
sick. They've just, you know, these people, they just, they're being rude to dogs. I literally saw
this guy. He had this dog chained up. He was sucking down water. The dog was panting. Then I,
later I saw this girl and this West Hollywood gross to me on some, I love it here, but this girl literally, you saw this,
she, her dog took this giant shit and she literally took two leaves and put it over
the shit, like, and then walked away. I love to give you hypotheticals.
What would you do if someone was rude to your dogs?
Um, if someone was rude to my dogs, if someone was rude to my dogs i would literally
i'd be going to jail really i would i defend those dogs more than i would defend like probably even
you okay because i feel like you could defend yourself and you could like take care of yourself
a little bit and like you know there'd be a it'd have to be an extreme situation for me i have to
step in remember that one time that guy reached down your pants on the back of that bar and i
had to do something yeah you guys there was this one time, just a super side note. I was leaning over a bar a little bit and I was wearing jeans with a
belt. And this guy came up to me from behind and stuck his dirty finger down my jeans next to my
butthole almost. And Michael saw it. You were. I was mad, but what kind of fucking creep does that?
But no, I think if somebody was mean to the dog, I'd for sure be going to jail.
Some people don't deserve to have dogs.
Listen, you have to take care of your dog if you're going to get them.
It's hot out there, people.
Give them water.
Don't leave them chained to a post or I'm going to leave you chained to a post.
If their feet are on the hot black asphalt, make sure they're not there too long.
It's burning them.
Just don't do it.
Don't let me catch you out there.
Wipe their paws.
Tell them how we wipe their paws.
Every time the dogs go for a walk, which is is once a day we bring them home and we wipe their paws
with little wipes they're these natural wipes i think you can get them on thrive market but
um you wipe their paws because they get allergies on their paws and they lick their paws and it gets
into their eyes it's like dust and all different kinds of things plus if you have someone that
comes and cleans your house or you clean the floors and it gets all those chemicals on their paws, you want to
wipe it off. Anyway, I don't want to start the show too negative. This is very like a dog episode.
I'm into it. Take care of your dogs. Don't let me catch you out there in the streets. The guy that
stuck his finger in my jeans into my butthole. That guy's fine. He can do that. Just take care
of the dogs. All right. So I want to talk about something
different than Michael's talking about. I want to talk about the five outfits that I just ordered.
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There's this one that I got that is so flattering. It's like this black tight legging that sucks everything in with
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Michael loves it, right, babe?
Twins are looking good.
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right, let's meet Dr. Diamond. Dr. Jason B. Diamond of the Diamond Face Institute is a top
facial plastic surgeon in his field and has helped thousands of patients achieve a more youthful,
we love youthful, natural looking appearance with the wide range of facial surgical
procedures he provides. Dr. Diamond chooses to not dilute his focus and concentrates exclusively
on the face. You can stalk his Instagram where he showcases patients like Kris Jenner, Lala Kent,
Vanderpump Rules cast, Kim Kardashian, Amber Rose, Kourtney Kardashian, Erika Jayne, Steph Shep,
Kate Upton, to name a few guys.
He is a double board certified plastic surgeon and was once on the popular show,
Dr. 90210. I love that show. He's now joining our show, The Skinny Confidential,
him and her. With that, welcome Dr. Diamond. Let's get into it with specifics.
This is The Skinny Confidential, him and her.
All right, Dr. Diamond, tell us how you got here. So give us your background,
starting with your childhood. My childhood. Okay. So I'm from New Jersey.
I grew up in a blue collar, just average household. super I was just an average kid pretty much um but what got me interested in this world is when I was in high school I had a friend who was involved in a
car accident he got his face smashed up and it was a pretty big deal to see how it affected him and
to see how it affected you know all of us he was he was pretty beat up pretty bad needed some
reconstructive surgery he was worried no no one
would ever want to go out on a date with him he's worried no one would ever want to go out with him
be seen with him this so it's big like it had a big impact and he went through the surgery got
reconstructed and they basically fixed him and made him whole and it was so the impact that that
had on me and on his friends and on him it was huge and what's what's even more interesting about
the whole thing is the at the time the surgeons had given him intraoperative photos of the surgery with like
his skull his scalp peeled down exposure of all the bones with the plates on them to reconstruct
them and he'd bring these pictures into school from time to time and everyone was grossed out
with them but i was fascinated with him i wanted to see him i'd stare at them for hours and like every couple weeks to be like hey can i see those
pictures again i was just fascinated with the whole anatomy with the anatomy it was crazy and
so i knew i had an interest in it um but to be a doctor i grew up from a town where you weren't
doctors and i grew up in a blue collar italian town in new jersey where you know people were
mechanics and stuff like that it just it just being a doc and no one in my family was a doctor, no one in my immediate family.
So it wasn't anything I really thought that I was going to be able to do,
you know, well, look, being a doctor is too hard. You have to be too smart. You have to be so like,
you know, I wasn't smart enough. I don't know. I just, it just wasn't something I thought was
possible, but I started taking the classes and I was like, you know, killing it and able,
and I realized like, Hey, I can do this. and I applied to med school and got in and the next thing you know
I gravitated towards facial plastic surgery because I loved it and I was good at it and I did well in
it and it just sort of mushroom clouded from there and that's how it all got started I also feel like
I know that you're smart but you're also an artist and I was telling Michael this there's a difference
I think with with a doctor that's an
artist and one that's not can you kind of explain the difference just for anyone who's listening
that doesn't know what i mean yeah it's um there are there are different skills involved in being
a good doctor and different doctor different specialties require different skills. And some of the smartest people I have ever met, people I still talk to to this day,
aren't very coordinated with their hands. Just because you're smart doesn't mean you have good
hands. And just because you have good hands doesn't mean you're smart. It's a completely
different thing. And so to be a good plastic surgeon, well, I mean, to be a surgeon, period, you have to have so many hours under your belt of experience and you've had to have passed so many exams and studied.
So we all, there's at least a baseline of like, you know, this person has put the hours into study and learn the appropriate anatomy and to learn the important surgical principles and things.
But to be a good plastic surgeon does require uh a finesse and an aesthetic
judgment and those things are you can't really teach those things to some degree most of it i
think is you either have it or you don't it's a nice way of saying you have to have a natural
given talent yeah i i think you have to have a natural given talent. Yeah, I think you have to have a natural given talent for,
I think 80%. Let's just put an arbitrary number on it. I'd say 80% of my ability to do what I do
is probably natural, God-given, and 20% has been learned, I would say, if I had to put numbers to
it. Now, different specialties are different. A lot of specialties require just a ridiculous amount of reading
and staying on top of literature and studying and things like that,
and that's different because they're diagnosing things visually
and they're not using their hands to fix things.
But when you're using your hands to fix problems like surgeons do,
particularly plastic surgeons, but most of the surgical specialties,
your finesse and your feel, that's really what separates the real masters of their specialty
from the others. And I think, in my opinion, a fair amount of that is god-given um but but with
hours and hours and hours too you can develop your skills um but even there you know there
are certain people who start off out of the gates and are just better than others and it's because
of their hands and their aesthetic judgment the way their brain interprets things and how they
see things and similar to any any other artist or like or anything like that. You can learn and you can study
and you can be the smartest guy in the room,
but if you don't have that natural talent,
you're only going to go so far.
I like to make the analogy all the time.
I think it's very similar to a guitar player
or a piano player.
There are those people who come out of the gates
and they just have that talent and that feel
and they know how to hit the keys.
They know how to strum the strings.
There are people and artists get better and better at strings right and there are people and you know artists
get better and better at it but there are some people who you know have been who come out of
the gates and it's so a lot of it is god-given but it's definitely a mix of god-given ability
and and hours and hours and you've heard the principle i think uh 10 000 hours the 10 000
hours the maxwell uh maxwell uh mac. You know, we were talking earlier.
He has a podcast too.
Does he really like him?
Yeah.
We're trying to figure out what podcast he might like.
Malcolm Gladwell.
Yeah.
Yeah. The 10,000 hour.
And I believe in the 10,000 hour principle.
And he said that, you know, to be a master at something, you have to put 10,000 hours
in.
And I believe that there's probably a lot of truth to that.
But even if you put 10,000 hours in, those people who have that God given ability will
be just better at it than those who don't.
And so that's what,
that's my opinion on the topic.
I mean,
I tried to play guitar when I was a kid and I played a little bit and her
cousin has God given natural guitar talent.
He's like,
Oh,
I'm going to try that too.
And he came in,
I heard one song in the song that I took months and months to learn.
He picked up and just played it right away.
I was like,
all right,
you know what?
I'm going to be self aware here and realize like,
this is probably not my, my my calling but it's true i want
to know why you went into plastic surgery instead of other things on the face because there's
obviously you could have gone into the brain you could have gone into eye surgery why did you pick
plastic surgery well well again because i'd seen my friend go through that experience where he was
you know the the uh how it how the um his mindset his psychology how it was so affected by how he was going to look.
And how, you know, at the time he's 16, he's like, no girl's ever going to want to date me.
That's a big deal because I was going through the same thing.
And to see how that affected us a lot, to see how when he got fixed, that was all better.
It was like, wow, that's like amazing.
You know, it was a big deal.
And so that's what got me interested in looking into plastic surgery as a med student, kind of gravitating towards it.
And then I just love the anatomy. And within plastic surgery, there's many different
subspecialties. I'm a facial specialist. I love the facial anatomy. It's very intricate.
And to work on it requires just a different type of feel and finesse than working on the body. They're two different skills.
And I like the facial work.
I just like the detailed nature of the anatomy.
It's very complex.
I loved studying it and learning it and just conquering it and understanding it.
It's very rewarding because it is very difficult to understand really what's going on as far as the anatomy goes, and then to be able to work on it in a skillful way just requires the utmost finesse and feel.
And it's just something that I just liked, and I was good at it.
And for me, when I'm good at something, I get better at it.
And the better I get at it, the more I like it, and it just spirals up.
And I like it more, and I get better at it, and I like it more.
That's kind of how it progressed. And I definitely found what I, you know, I tell people I'm very
good at a few things and not good at a lot of things. I sucked at guitar. I started playing
guitar too, like you, when I was, when I was a kid, my cousin was amazing and he gave me his guitar.
I took lessons and I, I played and I, and I fifth grade, started a band with a couple kids.
And I was terrible.
And this one, one of the guys who joined us, he was playing guitar and he just was so good
at it.
And I had been, and he had just started, just like your story, same thing.
And I was like, I'm not good at this.
And I just realized, and I quit too.
There are certain things I'm very good at.
And this just happens to be one of them.
I found, you know, I was-
Doubling down, tripling down on your strengths.
Yeah, yeah.
Thinking about it, I had a little band too
and God bless those parents that sat through
and listened to those terrible, terrible sessions.
You kind of like, I was looking at this app the other day.
They have this new app out called the Golden Ratio.
Do you go by that?
The Golden Ratio, in in general as a facial surgeon
i i don't like look at the golden ratio before i go into a room and say okay i'm going to create
this but what i do the facial sculpting techniques and the surgical techniques that i do that we're
sort of replicating that and can you tell anyone that doesn't know what the golden ratio is can
you kind of explain it it's the golden ratios yeah golden ratio is, yeah, it's just a pattern that has been, I don't even think it's the words, I don't know what the right word is.
It's not discovered, but identified that is consistent with the best looking faces in nature.
And it's just the ratios between the proportions of the upper part of the face and the middle part of the face and the lower part of the face.
And there's, you can put a number to it.
Like there's, uh, there's certain percentages, a percentage distance that each eye should
be from each other in relation to the ears and that type of thing.
So it's a pattern that has been identified that the most, uh, beautiful faces in the
world, um, have in common.
So before I go to bed tonight, Michael, I want you to look at me straight in the eye
and say, wow, Lauren, you have the golden ratio. I want to tell you where I first found you. And maybe
Michael, I don't know if you know this. Before I let everyone know where I first heard about Dr.
Diamond, I want to talk about my new Thrive Market select page. Okay, so I went through all of Thrive Market and added all my
selects that are all TSC approved to this page. We went through the master list, we went through
everything and found the top favorites. So you can expect a very TSC-esque page. One thing that I
need to talk to you about that Michael and I are obsessed with right now
is Annie's organic BBQ sauce.
Okay.
It's a sweet and spicy barbecue sauce.
That's how you say BBQ?
You say BBQ?
You say BBQ?
How do you say it?
Barbecue.
Okay.
I say BBQ.
BBQ.
Okay.
You actually tricked me because then I said that's how you say BBQ.
So I made Michael this barbecue chicken cauliflower crust pizza.
I got it off F Factor. So it's
full of fiber. And basically what you do is you make a cauliflower pizza crust, and then you add
your Annie's organic original barbecue sauce or BBQ. I got mine off Thrive Market. This one has
four grams of sugar or less, which we love. Then we added chicken breast on top, a little red onion,
some shredded cheddar cheese, a little mozzarella, and of course, fresh cilantro and tons and tons
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tastes just like CPK's version. It was some damn good BBQ. It is some damn good BBQ. Anyways, on my page, you can find this barbecue sauce, as Michael would say,
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thrivemarket.com slash skinny. Happy shopping and enjoy that barbecue chicken pizza. I first saw Dr. Diamond, you know what I'm going to say, on Dr. 90210.
Is that what it was called?
Dr. 90210, yeah, that was back in 2000.
Like the television show?
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
So tell us about how you got there.
So Dr. 90210, okay, that was, I think the first year of Dr. 90210 was, I think, 2002. They had their first season, and it was created by
a plastic surgeon named Robert Ray. He was the guy who wore the cutoff sleeves and did all the
karate and stuff. It was his idea. He's a very creative guy, and he came up with this idea to
have the show, and it was a huge hit. I was not on it that first season. Their first season was eight half-hour episodes,
and it was this huge hit.
So they got picked up for a second season, and they went from eight half-hour episodes
to 13 one-hour episodes.
So they more than doubled their airtime.
So they needed to add, quote-unquote, talent.
I always laugh that people call me talent on these teams,
but they had to add people.
But you were actually a practicing doctor?
Yes.
I had just started.
I just started my practice.
I was in practice for a year.
I think I started my practice the same year that came out.
Maybe six months before that show came out, I had just started.
And so when they got picked up for their extra air time, they needed to add plastic surgeons to feature.
They needed to add plastic surgeons to feature.
They needed to fill that time. And so they were looking for a woman, and they interviewed the 20 potential pretty camera-friendly female plastic surgeons that were in the Southern California area.
And they liked Linda Lee, who has become a friend of mine, great doctor and great person.
And they were looking for the, quote unquote, the hotshot up and comer.
That was the other role they wanted to fill.
And they interviewed the 20 or 30 people that were appropriate for that.
And they heard my name as one of those guys.
And they came and interviewed me.
And they liked me for that part.
And I got that role.
And again, the rest is history.
That's where I started.'s what I like being a
year into your practice and being thrown on television in Beverly Hills and
becoming like the hot plastic surgeon I can only imagine your office has like a
line up the door like this guy has the golden ratio yeah yeah it was it was
pretty crazy it was pretty crazy and actually it was quite interesting
because at the time it was it was a different time i mean it's crazy to think
like i i still feel like i'm i still feel like i just moved to la but yet i'm now one like one of
the old guys i i it like it's crazy to me that that was 20 years ago like i'm no longer it's
so the the reality is it's a whole different world now and i feel so old saying that it's just so
weird to wrap my brain around that but it was was a different time. And at that time, there was no social media.
Marketing was considered extremely taboo.
At that time, doctors didn't market.
They didn't market.
Marketing was considered taboo in the doctor's profession.
In the doctor profession.
If you marketed, it was equivalent to the ambulance chasing lawyer.
If you marketed, you were considered just the bottom of the barrel,
the bottom of the food chain, if you marketed, okay? There were a few plastic surgeons that
were marketing at the time, and they were considered by the medical community bottom
of the barrel. They were just the lowest of the low end. That's what it was considered at the time.
And this show came out, and it was a little different because it wasn't so
much marketing it was a show but yet there was still a lot of taboo about being on the airwaves
about doing this there were and you know because i wasn't on that first season but i heard all the
doctors the local doctors talk about it and they were like you know just taking every but they were
taking every shot they could at robert ray and the few doctors who had made appearances on it um it was all about him that
first season but there were cameos from other doctors but every doctor in the community was
taking shots at those guys trying to knock them down and i'm sure there was a lot of jealousy
involved too and i was just getting started and getting like getting the feel of the lay of the
land so i didn't really have much of an opinion on it but there was one
thing i knew i knew that my mentors wouldn't approve of it i knew that because i learned from
like i spent a lot of time studying with the most famous top guys in the field for two years before
i opened up my practice i just went i traveled a lot and learned from the best of the best. So I was learning from these like old school, you know, purists, these old guys.
And the thought of these guys wouldn't even have like their number listed in the phone book.
I mean, this was like, you know, you did it.
Their thought was you do it all based on time and word of mouth and good work and reputation that's built from the ground up.
And that's how it was done. And these were the guys that I respected the most. And these were
my mentors. So I knew they wouldn't approve. Number one.
That's going to be difficult because these are guys you look up to. And at some level,
you want their approval and you want them to be proud of you.
Absolutely. Absolutely. I wanted these guys. I wanted their approval. I wanted them to be proud
of me. And I wanted them. Yeah, absolutely. So I
knew that. Number two, the other thing was, I knew my work would blow away anything that was seen in
season one. I knew that too, because I, you know, look, Robert Ray starred this show and he does a
million breasts and he's great at those things. But he was doing some face stuff on that show too. And he wasn't a face expert and he'll be the first to tell you. I mean, he's referred me a million breasts and he's great at those things, but he was doing some face stuff on that
show too. And he wasn't a face expert and he'll be the first to tell you. I mean, he's referred
me a million face things over the years and I've referred him breast things, but he'll be the first
to tell you he's not a face expert, but he was doing some facial things and some of the other
guys were doing some facial things. And here I was, I had the top techniques and I was already
getting great results. I knew my results would blow away anything that the airwaves have ever seen for facial
work.
I knew that too.
And so I was torn between do I, you know, upset my mentors and, you know, and how I
would feel about that versus having like show the world what really the top techniques could
deliver.
And so...
What was the ultimate decision maker?
Well, I knew that there would be a lot of good that came from being on there.
I knew there'd be bad.
I knew there were conflicting.
There was pluses and minuses.
But I believe that the pluses outweighed the minuses.
But I had to convince my wife.
She said, don't do it.
My nurse at the time, who was my right-hand man, had been in the business for 25 years
and worked with a lot of these top guys.
And she was very influential on me and helped me start my practice.
Both beautiful blondes, if I remember correctly.
This nurse you hadn't met.
She's already left.
But she was beautiful, too.
She said, absolutely not.
So the two most important people to me at the time, as far as my business and my life, both said, absolutely not. So the two most important people to me at the time, as far as my business and my life
both said, absolutely not.
You can't do this because they knew of the taboo.
They knew that you weren't supposed to do this.
But I said, you know what?
We're going to show the world what first rate facial surgery is like, and it's going to
change everything.
And I made that decision and we did it.
And that's exactly what happened.
And I think like, I like to tell, we were sort of part of the revolution.
Like before this show came out, I think most of the world thought plastic surgery was just for Hollywood celebrities.
Rich, famous Hollywood celebrities who didn't care to look weird.
Like everyone thought of Michael Jackson and Joan Rivers and all these craziness.
If you lived in middle America, that's what you thought of plastic surgery.
And I knew that we would be able to change that.
And I think that we did because now the rest of the country, this was a very popular show.
It was seen not only, I've seen like 150 countries, but all these viewers viewing the show saw
these perfectly natural facial results, these perfectly natural rhinoplasty
results. People look beautiful, but like themselves, undetectable type of work. And all of a sudden,
I was getting emails from other plastic surgeons in the middle of the country thanking me.
They were telling me their practices have blown up because now people are like, oh my god,
you can get a natural looking nose. It doesn't have to look like Michael Jackson's nose. You
can get a natural facelift. I don't have to look like Michael Jackson's nose. You can get a natural facelift.
I don't have to look like Joan Rivers.
So I think it helped really make plastic surgery mainstream.
I think our show really did that.
And I think it helped other plastic surgeons worldwide.
And I think it helped the population realize if something bothers them that affects their self-esteem negatively,
that they can really have it fixed in a a very
safe natural way that's going to benefit their life and then social media comes in and this is
this is years after the show airs right social media came in so so when dr 90210 was on the air
i became when people start all of a sudden it was so weird people started recognizing me all over
the place airports traveling i mean people. I mean, people start.
So interestingly, at that time, maybe two or three years into Dr. 90210, Facebook had come out.
I think MySpace was first, but I didn't use that.
Then Facebook came out.
And I remember I would get, no joke, 20, 30 Facebook requests a day.
And I didn't accept one of them.
I didn't do it.
Like friend requests or just people reaching out?
People reaching out, friend requests,
all like, I mean, on a daily basis,
maybe more.
It was just, it may have been hundreds.
I don't know.
It was tons of, and I didn't do it.
I was just like, I don't need this stuff.
And I just, I didn't do it.
This went on for like three years.
So, but that was becoming a thing probably whatever you
guys probably know as well as me face I mean we're probably talking 2007 2006
2007 to somewhere in that range and I didn't do it but so I didn't get
involved in social media because I was late again similar to my thought process
on you know marketing is taboo,
even though I was on this show,
I still am like an old school guy in that respect.
And I was very late to the game in social media.
So I didn't start doing Instagram,
I think till like two years ago.
It was a lot of people were doing it.
And a lot of plastic surgeons started,
hopped on that as well as the Facebook years ago,
well before I did it.
The thing that made me start Facebook,
I mean start Instagram,
I don't even, do we do Facebook now, don't we?
I don't even know.
I've never seen our Facebook page.
I think we have one, but Tammy runs it.
Tammy, you're doing a great job.
Incredible job.
Tammy, you're killing it.
But I do look at the Instagram.
I do check that.
So I understand the importance of Instagram.
I still don't even understand, honestly, just show how stupid I am. I don't even understand what
Facebook does. Like I know what Instagram is. I understand how to use it and what you get from it.
I've never looked at a Facebook page, not mine, not anyone's. But you're delegating it. So you're
still, you're outsourcing it. So it's still great. Right. It's still great. But the point is, so
I digress. So I got sidetracked. So I was in Dubai and I was seeing
a very famous Dubai,
like Middle Eastern person.
She was on what,
Arabia Has Talent or Dubai Has...
This person flies you out to Dubai?
I was going to Dubai.
I was going to Dubai
to take care of some people,
to take care of some high-end people.
Yeah, Michael, he works.
Don't you work some of the time in Dubai?
I don't.
I mean, I've been there. I want to know how this works. We won't have to get into details about who it is, but so that they say, hey,-end people. Yeah, Michael, he works. Don't you work some of the time in Dubai? I don't. I mean, I've been there.
I want to know how this works.
We won't have to get into details about who it is,
but so that they say,
hey, listen, Dr. Diamond,
you need to get out here.
Yeah, Dubai is huge for plastic surgery.
We need to get your ass out here to Dubai.
We're not coming over there.
And then you're like, okay,
and you pack up all your gear and you head out
and you got a whole facility set up.
That's kind of how it works.
It's a show in itself.
No, people have sent planes before
so for sure but but private planes uh yeah people have sent private planes yes yes yes for long
trips yes i got in the wrong racket yes yes so um but because i had a big middle eastern following
from being exposed on that show because dr 90210 not. 90210 aired in the Middle East,
so a lot of these royalty knew who I was
and they wanted me to do their work,
so a lot of them were coming here.
And LA is, in the summertime,
is one of the most highly traveled places
by the Middle Eastern royalty.
Now with the travel bans and stuff,
it's changed the last two years,
but before that, there were tons of Middle Easterners
who traveled here for their summer.
So I was taking care of loads.
And finally, enough people worked it out so I could go over there and help take care of them over there.
So I was going over there from time to time.
Let me ask you this.
We're digressing here.
But you've got to be careful with some of this royalty.
Not that you would, but if you screw up one of these jobs, you'll get in a lot of trouble with some of these guys.
Well, I don't screw around.
I mean, I only do things that I know.
Home run every time.
Yeah, and people will tell, like, I, I get, you know, unfortunately, I'm very honest with patients and, and that unfortunately sometimes upsets them.
Like if I don't think I can get a good result, I tell them and I, if, you know, I don't, honestly, I haven't even looked at a Yelp page in three years, but, but I used to, like every other one else, I'd stress every day what's on the Yelp.
And I don't even know what's on there now.
I don't even care, to be honest with you.
But at the time when I did, three years ago, there was someone who wrote a bad Yelp review on me.
Because she said, Dr. Dimes said I was too fat and wouldn't get the results.
But I was being honest.
And I never used the word fat.
I wouldn't insult somebody.
But I think... You have to set the expectation at a realistic level.
I just said, look look you're not going
to get what you want i can't give you what you want because you know and i always tell people
because your anatomy is just not favorable and it's some and i'm honest with people and this
lady wrote a terrible review that i was rude and mean and i was like look i was just being honest
and i'm honest with everybody so unfortunately that upsets people from time to time but i'll
never do something on someone i don't think i get a great result on so if i know i can get a good
result i'm gonna get a good result okay so you're out in dubai with the arabian princess yeah michael
so and it wasn't this was this was a celebrity this was the like the most popular judge on
on dubai has talent or arabia's got talent or one of those she was a very and she said to me she's
like hey she's i'll put a post i'll do an instagram thing for you what's your instagram and i'm like
this was like two years ago i'm like i don't don't have one. And she's like, what?
She's like, if I do this thing.
She's like, at the time, two years ago, she had like 20 million followers.
She was like one of the biggest in the world at the time.
What's that?
This was five years ago.
Oh, five years ago.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, whatever it was, she had a bunch of followers at the time.
And she's like, let me just put this out for you.
And you'll get like, you'll be.
And I said, I don't even have Instagram.
So I called Tammy.
I was in Dubai.
I said, Tammy, this person,
and her name was Alshamizi.
She's actually posted it so I can say it.
Alshamizi, I think.
And I'm like, she wants to post something.
Do we have an Instagram?
Tammy's like, no, but I'll make one right now.
So she made it right then and there
and she did a little something for us
and that's how our Instagram started
however many years ago that was.
So it wasn't that long ago.
And now you guys are utilizing it a lot.
Has that helped with business?
Yeah, now I do utilize it.
Now I understand.
So like I said, the world has changed.
The world has totally changed.
And now it's the way, it's just the way it works.
So even though our forefathers
and my mentors would totally disapprove,
sorry, it's the way of the world.
You gotta put your work out there for people to see.
So yes, we use it a lot now. and um fortunately i've got a lot of influential people who trust
my work and they readily post for me because they want other people to have that same type
of experience so we use it a lot and it's been very very good what's the wildest request you've
had i mean in terms like someone's like i need you to come here or i need you to come here, or I need you to come to like... I'm trying to think of...
Tammy, do you know?
That show we did for MTV.
Oh, well, the craziest thing probably was, yeah, this was for an MTV show.
I can't even remember the name of the show.
But they called and they said they had this guy who was a body modification guy.
And he had every modification you could have.
He had the huge earring stretch he had you know the huge earrings
stretched things he had the the full nose pierced all over place he had his tongue split down the
middle all these things i'd seen before he had earrings in his eyelids like that i had never
seen before he had he had like metal balls implanted under his forearm i'd never seen it
was just nasty stuff but he had something I'd never seen before and that was horns
implanted in his head he had these horns and planted his head to look like a demon or a devil
and they were silicone horns that somebody put in in some basement and crazy enough whoever put
him in did a surgically skillful job like I don't know if I could have put him in as well it was
and it was done by some probably guy like him, some body modification guy in some basement.
And he did the most skillful job ever.
But the guy wanted him removed now
because he wanted to start normalizing his life.
So I went in surgically
and I removed these silicone horns.
And that was probably the craziest thing I ever did.
The weirdest thing I'd ever did.
But it worked and it made him look more normal. So that was
kind of weird. People know me. I'm a very conservative type of surgeon. I go for very
natural results. I want people to look like themselves. So I typically don't get, people
don't come to me for craziness. There are doctors who do craziness and those doctors have those
reputations
and they have those patients. I typically don't get those people. I get people who want to look
just great and normal. So it's luckily for me, it's not often someone comes in and asks for
crazy stuff because it's not my niche and I don't like to do it. And whenever I get stuff like that,
we usually send it away. What are some trends that you're seeing right now? Like how is how social media, obviously Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, they're sort of changing
the conversation. I feel like what are trends that you see people coming in for more and more?
Yeah. So yeah, there are those, the man, the Kardashians, they're just amazing family and
they are on the forefront of beauty and fashion. And I mean, they are influencers and they deserve
every bit of every accolade and every reward they've ever had.
They deserve because they're just they're they're just an awesome group of people and they're generous and they're smart and they're they're knowledgeable and they're just they're just awesome.
So they have influenced the world.
They really have.
And and it's amazing to be a part of that.
I think that one of the biggest things I've seen is people embracing that
they can make changes younger. People now know that they don't need to wait until they're 60 to
address something that bothers them. If something bothers them when they're in their 20s,
30s, then it's okay to have that addressed., I make the analogy to everybody. To me,
people often ask, well, isn't it vain? Or isn't it, you know, shouldn't you accept what God gave
you? Well, my answer to that is, right now as we speak, what would be our guess as to how many
people are in a gym right now worldwide? A billion? Right now, there's probably a billion
people exercising somewhere, at minimum, maybe more. And why are they exercising? They're
exercising to what? Reduce the fat, to get a six pack, to slim out their thighs, to improve their biceps,
whatever the reason is. And that's because people want to improve their self-esteem and want to feel
better about themselves. Well, the face, you can't exercise away. You can't exercise to make those
types of changes. So what's the difference between exercising to get a six-pack
or doing a little filler to your chin to create a better chin shape
and improve the weakness that you have, right?
To me, it's the same exact principle and the same concept.
So I think that what the Kardashians were a big part of making people realize,
like you can improve things at any age.
If it bothers you, that you can improve it.
And so I think that's the biggest change that I've seen is people coming in and understanding that coming in at younger ages to address things
that bother them the biggest thing for me and i think that this is if there's a takeaway for me
and what makes me happy is that i think we're getting to a place where if somebody wants to
do something people are supportive like okay you do you if that makes you happy if that if you feel
more confident then do it we're i hope that we're getting away from a place of society where it's
like this person did that and everyone jumps on to judge them and puts them down like i think that's If you feel more confident, then do it. I hope that we're getting away from a place of society where it's like,
this person did that, and then everyone jumps on to judge them and puts them down.
I think that's a very unhealthy space.
And you're right.
You wouldn't do that to somebody who's in the gym trying to improve in that area.
I mean, you may be somebody that your nose doesn't bother you,
so you don't think about it.
But if someone's nose, they look at it every day in the mirror and say,
I don't like the nose that I was given.
They should have the right to go and get something done.
And that should be their sole decision.
It should have nothing to do with what anyone else thinks.
I don't know why anyone cares what anyone else does.
Well, for a long time, it was really taboo, right?
Like you do something and people would, you know,
you'd be in the news or if you're a famous person
or if you did something and your group of friends found out,
they would talk, everybody has to talk about it.
And I just think like, that's really unhealthy as a society.
Because who really cares?
I mean, listen, there's the extreme examples where
people maybe take it too far and I'm sure you've seen a lot of that where
it's like whoa slow down you're you're going over the edge but for somebody
that just wants to make a minor change to feel more confident I don't think
there's anything wrong with it and there's definitely if and what you say I
agree with you 100% the one the one exception to that is somebody who's not
psychologically sound and there's a there, you know, most people by now have heard of body dysmorphic disorder, but that's where somebody doesn't see themselves appropriately.
They see something that other people don't see and they obsess, fixate on certain things.
And those people will have a hundred procedures.
That's a different story.
Those people need psychological help, not surgical help.
And so that's the only caveat. So what happens if someone like that comes in to see you
yeah if and and i do see i'd say i probably see a person a month like that maybe and we'll just
and i just tell them listen i don't think i can help you and and i'll as gently as i can say you
know there's you know try to point them in the direction of maybe seeking psychological help for, you know, obsessing on certain things.
And some people will accept that and other people will get upset that I, you know, talk to them about that.
But I'm not going to do anything that's not going to help somebody.
And so that's the only exception.
But other than that, normal people, hey, this bump on my nose affects my self-esteem.
I don't like my pictures.
To have that fixed to me is as, you know, as honest and appropriate as going to the gym to get in
shape i know that you specialize in the face but how are you seeing a lot of bbls i feel like i'm
seeing that everywhere um so what the hell's a brazilian butt lift so so right so i so i i don't
do that type of work but i do have people ask quite often who they should go to for that so it's definitely something that's out there um from what I have been told it's decreasing in
its popularity a little recently um and maybe those fashion icons who make that popular have
now gone a different direction and what they're saying about I'm not sure because I don't do that
work but but certainly it's a very popular thing and people ask all the time.
So I refer them to someone who I know
does good work in that regard.
Okay, so if someone comes in to you for your face,
what would you recommend that they need to do?
Can they just come in and talk with you?
Do they need like a checklist?
If someone maybe can't have access to you
and they're maybe in Minnesota,
is there a list that they should ask their doctor before they get anything done?
I guess if you were giving advice to your daughter, what would you tell her before seeing someone that specializes in the face?
Yeah, so for me, I tell everybody, anything I do is predicated on an exam.
I got to see you first.
Now, we take care of probably half of my practice comes from outside
of LA, probably 50% of the people I see come from different countries, different states.
So we have a lot of people who we will Skype with first and we'll do a full Skype exam and I'll
spend as much time as I can evaluating them that way. But I tell them all, listen, we can,
what I see on Skype, I think you're a good candidate for these things. But there's a
chance you get here. And when I put my hands on your face, I tell you, you know what?
I don't think I can give you what I thought I'd give you.
So I tell everybody with that caveat that you may get here and I may turn you down.
But Skype, I would say if I had to put a number on it, is probably 85% accurate.
I'm probably accurate 85% of the time.
Meaning my hands will feel what I think they're going to feel based on the Skype.
But I won't do anything without examining that person first and talking to them first.
If the leader of North Korea wants to fly you out to examine his face, what would you
tell him first?
What's his preliminary exam?
Yeah, so I would...
What type of plane does the leader of North Korea need to send?
It has to be something nice to go there.
To go there?
Yeah, I'd have to bring Dennis Rodman with me because I know I'm safe then.
I heard that guy throw some wild parties over there no i i don't doubt it i don't doubt it at all so if
someone's going if someone's listening like i said and they wanted to they they can't go to you what
kind of checklist should they ask their doctor should they ask anything obviously board certified
right is that yeah yeah so so as so basically the question you're
asking is how do you find someone who's appropriate for you like you yeah so you know i think it's
important to find somebody who's board certified in their specialty and this world again it's it always surprises me that the public at large still doesn't understand
what board certification is.
There's all kinds of perversions of that term that aren't real.
So the real board certifications for facial surgery,
there are really two specialties that can be board certified to do facial work. And that is a board certified plastic surgeon and a board certified
facial plastic surgeon. And I would, I would, if it were me and I'm informing somebody,
I would have them understand what those two terms mean. If you just do a quick Google search,
because those are the two specialties where you are truly recognized as a board-certified specialist,
meaning you've passed the appropriate exams, you've met all the requirements for understanding
the facial anatomy.
So what does that leave?
That leaves a whole bunch of other specialties that are not the same, but they use sexy terms
like board-certified cosmetic surgeon.
Board-certified cosmetic surgery is different. It's not to say there can't be good board-certified cosmetic surgeon. Board-certified cosmetic surgery is different.
It's not to say there can't be good board-certified cosmetic surgeons, but it's not the same thing.
You don't have to have the same qualifications. It can be people outside of different specialties.
I mean, OBGYNs can be board-certified cosmetic surgeons, all different kinds of different specialties. So my recommendation would be to see a board-certified facial plastic surgeon
or board-certified plastic surgeon to have your facial work done.
That would be my first recommendation.
And I just wouldn't veer outside of that.
You take on, you know, you just hear about it.
That's the best I can say about it but it's i i think it you know
i think at this point it's the buyer has to do some do some of their own work they got to take
responsibility for their decisions to some degree and understand really what the training is of who
it is that they're seeing it just becomes because somebody advertises a certain way doesn't mean
that they have the this this skillful training to give you the best results
possible. But board certified plastic surgeons, board certified facial plastic surgeons are the
appropriate specialties to see for your facial work. Okay. Okay. If someone's in LA and they
want to come to you, what are some procedures that you really specialize in? So the most common
procedures that I perform are facelifts,
rhinoplasties. I'm coming to you. I told you when I get older for a facelift. In 20 years, yeah.
Yeah. Maybe 30 for you. 30, okay. Yeah, yeah. Maybe 30. Maybe next week for me. Sorry, go ahead.
So probably the most common surgeries I perform would be facial rejuvenation surgeries, which
include just making people look more youthful. That's tightening the neck and jawline
with facelifts, neck lifts,
noses, rhinoplasty, reshaping the nose.
Those are probably the most common surgeries
that I perform.
Probably one of our signature things,
and I have people come from all over the world
for those things.
One of the signature things that I perform
that is a unique procedure that is unique to our practice, it's called the diamond tripartite procedure.
And that is my way of using customized facial implants where I actually get CT scans of the face and create implants that are customized to an individual and combining that with some deep lasering
and some deep muscle tightening
to create the most contour
and the most chiseled appearance
that I can give for somebody.
Symmetry for the face?
Symmetry for the face, sculpting for the face.
Now, we do it non-surgically as well,
but this is the surgical.
So there's a surgical tripartite
and a non-surgical tripartite.
But the surgical tripartite is the most powerful way there is for like a 35-year-old to say,
I need a more, I'm just, I don't have the, I want the Brad Pitt neck and jawline.
And it's the most powerful way to do that.
And it's not, it's scarless.
There's no, it's not a facelift.
A facelift is a different thing.
That's tightening the muscles and tightening the skin. Here we're talking about enhancing and sculpting the facial structure. So it's scarless. It's not a facelift. A facelift is a different thing. That's tightening the muscles and tightening the skin.
Here we're talking about enhancing and sculpting the facial structure.
So it's very powerful.
It's one of my favorite things to do.
And we do it surgically and non-surgically.
Surgically is, of course, a permanent, significant change.
Non-surgically, we do it in the office with what we call diamond facial sculpting.
It's my non-surgical way to enhance and sculpt the face.
So those would be my unique sort of signature procedures.
And so that combined with facelifts and rhinoplasties would probably be the most common things that I do.
Going back to the beginning, your buddy that had face trauma, trauma how much of your practice now if any uh deals with trauma someone that's been in like some kind of terrible accident
or got their face smashed in and then obviously the um you know i don't want to not vanity but um
for aesthetics so how much somebody come to you and say hey this buddy this guy was just in a
really bad accident and we need to fix his face like how often do you see that now that's a great
question um i don't see as much reconstructive work anymore for facial fractures.
And the reason is because that usually requires a university setting.
And once you get into private practice the way I am, we're just not involved with the universities anymore.
And so I don't do much of that anymore.
I still do nasal reconstructions.
People have had their nose broken badly or that kind of thing because that doesn't require as much of the university situation. So I still do nasal reconstructions people have had their nose broken badly or you know that kind of thing because that doesn't require as much of the university situation so i still do that but
not bring you into consult ever um i will get i will get uh people to ask just from you know if
they're going to do something what i think cosmetically would make sense from a balance
standpoint even though i'm not going to do the procedure so you know i used to do a lot of that
but i don't really anymore you did chris jenner ears on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. So you just cut the lobe off the ear.
I just reshape the earlobe. Yeah, there's certain techniques to reshape an earlobe.
After certain procedures or with aging, the earlobes can get a little funky looking or a
little wonky looking or a little just aged looking. And so I'll be checking your earlobes
tonight to see if you need that. Yeah, there are methods to reshape that.
So yeah, so we did that for Chris.
And I can say that just,
I can only talk about what was aired.
Well, I can only talk about what people post
and what people air.
And that's what we, yeah.
So that's what we did.
What is a book, a resource, a podcast,
anything that you would recommend to our audience?
Maybe they're out there, they're listening,
they're hustlers, they're working.
Some of them are working nine to five some of them are entrepreneurs what what's something
that you that you really really like that set the tone of your life could be a book podcast movie
tv show that's really a good question and it doesn't have to be so like it could be it could
be anything like even something like well my well Well, my favorite, I think my favorite poem would be Lord Alfred Tennyson's story about Ulysses.
And it starts, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield that's how ulysses tries to amp up his troops that are
going to go on a go on a long dangerous glorious potentially expedition um and the warrior king
that's how he that's how he started to strive to seek to find and not to yield and i've always like
loved that that amps you any time meaning like just if you say it you never stop like love that that amps you know any type meaning like just if you say it in your head you
never stop like and that's how that's my mindset of how i've always been i will even to this day i
will i will just not stop be trying to become better trying striving for perfection just i
won't stop um trying to learn and get better and that's just the way i am even that's how i started
before started in med school it's how i went. Even that's how I started in med school.
It's how I went through residency.
It's how I was in the beginning of my career.
And it's even what drives me to this day,
that type of mindset.
And it's one of the things I think has led me to,
you know, rise to the place that I've gotten to
because I think like that.
That's how my brain works.
Dr. Diamond, you are amazing.
Thank you so much for
coming on that was so informative where can everyone find you pimp yourself out give us
your instagram handle your website where they can book everything uh instagram is i gotta ask
what is it dr dr jason that's dr jason diamond um our website is uh www.jasonbdiamond.com
and we're in Beverly Hills
and you have to promise me
that if the leader
of North Korea
flies you out there
that I can come
I don't offer this
to most people
I'll hold your gear
we'll bring Rodman
yeah we'll go see
some of those
wild boat parties
that guy's throwing
yeah I'm in
I'm in
yeah I can make that guy
look a lot better
once he listens to this episode
then we'll circle back around
no he'd do great
and I would do
the diamond tripartite on him.
It'd be amazing.
Thank you so much for coming on.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
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