Podcast: Christmas Beauty Wishlist 2025 with Dr. G and Bri

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Christmas is basically here, and let’s be honest, we all have a beauty wishlist. San Diego plastic surgeon Dr. Gallus and Bri unpack their dream stockings and share the treatments they’re begging Santa for.

Happy holidays from the Restore SD girls! Thanks for listening to us rant about celebs and plastic surgery all year long.

Meet La Jolla plastic surgeon Dr. Katerina Gallus

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Dr. Gallus (00:02):
You are listening to another episode of All the B’s with me, Dr. G and my scrub tech Bri. Alright everybody, we’re back with the Christmas edition of All the B’s, your podcast that breaks down celebrity news and plastic surgery, all the things you want to know but might be afraid to ask or didn’t want to know when we’re going to share it with you anyway.

Bri (00:23):
That’s more likely.

Dr. Gallus (00:25):
So we have our little Christmas stockings. I did want to run through one celebrity piece of news that came across on my feed and it was Dr. Terry Dubrow from Real Housewives and Botched fame. He was in a feature talking about Ozempic penis.

Bri (00:42):
Stop. No way.

Dr. Gallus (00:45):
He said yes. It’s a thing

Bri (00:47):
Just like Ozempic vagina, right?

Dr. Gallus (00:49):
Yeah. There was Ozempic vagina, but of course for women it was bad. For men, it’s good because the more weight you lose, it un buries your penis. So I do remember the urologist telling me 30 pounds is an inch, so if you lose 30 pounds, you might get an inch of penis back because your belly’s like burying the penis.

Bri (01:15):
Alright. I feel like Ozempic should be now the standard for men. Give us the inch.

Dr. Gallus (01:18):
Any beer gut needs Ozempic, I guess is the moral of the story. It’s kind of funny.

Bri (01:25):
Ozempic for the win.

Dr. Gallus (01:27):
I know because there is basically, you can put Ozempic in front of anything. My daughter sent me an article about Ozempic pets, like people putting their pets on.

Bri (01:36):
Yes, stop it.

Dr. Gallus (01:37):
I’m like, you could just feed them less. They’re not.

Bri (01:39):
My dog needs Ozempic. Literally, he’s a sausage. His feet go and then it’s like the slinky dog. His back goes,

Dr. Gallus (01:46):
Yeah, I know, but just maybe feed them less treats. That would be the solution in my house.

Bri (01:52):
I’m trying to clog some arteries with mine. Just kidding. I really thought you were going to bring up the Justin Timberlake’s Lyme disease diagnosis thing. I saw it last night and I’m going to send it to you. And I was like, oh, she’s going to roll over in her grave.

Dr. Gallus (02:06):
I’m just going to rage people by talking about that, I think. So we’re going to move on to something festive. You have a few of your favorite things in your naughty stocking.

Bri (02:14):
I got the naughty stocking.

Dr. Gallus (02:16):
I got the nice one. Yeah. Why don’t you break down? What’s in your stocking there?

Bri (02:20):
So basically I couldn’t fit everything I wanted in my stocking, but I started off with some of the absolute basics that you absolutely need. Juvederm, put it anywhere, put it in your lips. This was the first thing that I wanted.

Dr. Gallus (02:38):
It’s good for nasolabial folds for lips.

Bri (02:40):
Maybe you can put it in that ozempic penis.

Dr. Gallus (02:44):
No thanks.

Bri (02:44):
I wonder if filler’s going to come back for men in the penis. Is that a thing?

Dr. Gallus (02:49):
It is, but it’s only the things I’ve seen about it have been really just cautionary tales. Yeah. Because if it goes wrong, it goes wrong badly.

Bri (03:01):
It goes so bad. Side note, every year I make her this really elaborate Christmas list of all the things I want and one year we like laminated it and put bows on it. So of course Prada and a Birkin, but still. Okay. ZO. We have the Growth Factor eye serum. I just needed so much help with my eyes. I also would like to add a CO2 laser onto my list. Yes, we need some love but can’t live without I serum. The Exfoliating Cleanser by ZO is amazing. It is so good. I love it. What’s your favorite one?

Dr. Gallus (03:42):
I think it’s fine. I like it. I like the Purifying Gel Cleanser by Alumier.

Bri (03:47):
That one gets all my makeup off really well.

Dr. Gallus (03:49):
Yeah, it really does clean everything. Sometimes I clean my makeup brushes with whatever the regular stuff, and then I add a little bit of purifying gel cleanser. It’s an expensive way to do it and you see so much more makeup come off. It’s crazy. It really takes everything.

Bri (04:05):
Okay. So I’d like to retract that. I’m going to use the exfoliating cleanser if I don’t. Most of the time I don’t put on makeup for work because I am capped and masked and everything. But if I ever do wear makeup, I do need the Purifying Gel Cleanser by Lumier before and then I’ll use this after.

Dr. Gallus (04:23):
Yeah, double cleanse.

Bri (04:24):
Double cleanse. Okay. So the complexion renewal pads. I actually just started using these probably like two weeks ago and I have seen such a difference.

Dr. Gallus (04:35):
Those are nice.

Bri (04:36):
These are amazing. You have to have those.

Dr. Gallus (04:37):
They’re like the, Stridex pads of your teens. The ones from the drugstore, the little

Bri (04:47):
I know what you’re talking about, but I never used them. It’s giving St. Ives scrub.

Dr. Gallus (04:52):
But they’re better. They’re just better. But it’s that same like a little disc. It’s soaked in exfoliating, something magical and you use it twice a day after cleansing. Yeah.

Bri (05:02):
Yeah. I’d also like to add the bright and clear bby Alumier to this.

Dr. Gallus (05:06):
Yes,

Bri (05:07):
That one’s a silicic acid and my skin really loves that one. Exfoliating polish. I know you’re not supposed to exfoliate and our old esthetician would probably roll over in her grave if I said how many times I’ve said exfoliating, she’d be like, you can’t break down your skin barrier. What did she say?

Dr. Gallus (05:24):
You definitely can overdo it.

Bri (05:26):
Yes. Don’t overdo it. I feel like we should have done a

Dr. Gallus (05:33):
Little ASMR. Yeah, that is the hero product. Honestly, I think it’s in my kit.

Bri (05:38):
And the two things I can’t ever live without ever again are the, don’t know if you can see these, but the AnteAGE serum and Accelerator, I will die without them if they ever go out of business. I don’t know why. I don’t know what’s in them. What kind of magic potion?

Dr. Gallus (05:53):
It’s the bone marrow of 20-year-old girls.

Bri (05:55):
Oh yes. The very specific bone marrow that they go and have to harvest from people ages like 19 to 20 who don’t drink and smoke and are perfectly

Dr. Gallus (06:06):
So they don’t go to SDSU. I’m just kidding.

Bri (06:10):
They do not.

Dr. Gallus (06:12):
So I don’t know where they find these 20-year-old Amish girls to harvest bone marrow from, but that’s what they do and it’s in their product along with biosomes. Alright, so those are your products, huh?

Bri (06:23):
Those are mine. What is in your stocking?

Dr. Gallus (06:25):
I feel like out of all the injectable fillers, Voluma is your go-to. Right? Especially for, I mean, you’re not going to put that in your lips. It’s a higher density filler that is supposed to be deep, but it’s really good for cheeks, temples, shin, anywhere on the bone.

Bri (06:44):
I’d like to add that to my stocking

Dr. Gallus (06:47):
And lasts a long time. It’s just a great product. So I’m probably due for some, I will say I also had the serum and accelerator from AnteAGE. I couldn’t find the serum because you took the last one. I just ordered more. Yeah. Like I said, it’s great stuff. It has the growth factors in it and although there are other companies, even ZO makes a growth factor serum. This one actually has human derived growth factors, which sometimes gives people the ick. But

Bri (07:15):
No, it’s amazing.

Dr. Gallus (07:16):
It’s actually, it works. And then the accelerator has other products in it, including a plant-based retinol. It has soothing, calming properties, ingredients like that, all of it in there so that your face doesn’t get irritated. It restores your skin barrier. It’s increasing cell turnover. It’s basically doing all the things. It’s regenerative medicine in a bottle.

Bri (07:38):
But you also need the MD line, right?

Dr. Gallus (07:41):
Yes.

Bri (07:42):
There’s two different lines.

Dr. Gallus (07:43):
There’s one that’s sold in spas and online, but if you go to an actual office, you can get the MD line that has the highest concentration of stuff. So definitely invest in that. It’s about close to $300 for it’s worth it. Both the serum and the accelerator. It’s the easiest application ever. So you just put serum on and then accelerator twice a day. So if you’re somebody who gets overwhelmed by the 80 products of either AlumierMD or ZO or whatever you’re using, it’s fast and easy. Wash your face, put this on, put sunscreen on. You’re done. Wash your face, put that on, go to sleep. You’re done. It’s like my, it’s an easy button, honestly.

Bri (08:24):
HI forgot sunscreen.

Dr. Gallus (08:25):
I know I have it in here. I’ll roast you for that.

Bri (08:30):
I have it on every morning. I put sunscreen on every day. I just forgot it

Dr. Gallus (08:34):
In your stocking.

(08:35):
Yes ma’am. So I know people bok at the cost, and then I was just at the Nordstrom Christmas party. Anyway, that in alone was interesting just for people watching, honestly. Anyway, there was so much stuff happening either in the shoe section, which I had to walk away from because it was chaos. They’re just serving drinks. For those of you who are not, it’s like a Christmas party they throw for special guests, I guess.

Bri (09:04):
But drinking and shopping is a hard job.

Dr. Gallus (09:05):
Hundreds of special guests

(09:07):
And then they have hors d’oeuvres and drinks and you’re supposed to shop and you get a 10 points Nordstrom points per dollar spent. But the shoe area was so chaotic. I felt bad for the people working in the shoe section. So I was like, we’re going to back out of that. So then I ended up in makeup because I was looking for a couple of things for gifts, perfume and whatnot, and I kept walking by La Mer, and Prairie, Prada. People are still spending big bucks on skincare. It’s just not medical grade. So if you’re going to, don’t chafe at the price point forage, when you’re going to throw down for some fancy eye cream from Clinique and have no active ingredients, it’ll smell nice. Don’t get me wrong. But that’s your pain for the fragrance and the packaging and the feeling of having something put on your skin. All of those things.

Bri (10:04):
I went through the La Mer. I did. I bought it twice. I know because Kim Kardashian talked about it and I had got it on the Sephora sale and I was like, I’m going to try it. And I don’t remember if I had the eye cream. I think my eyes, I had some sort of reaction to this every time. And then I broke out really bad. So for the ungodly cost of it, my skin’s super sensitive, so I don’t know. But it was not worth it.

Dr. Gallus (10:34):
No, it’s not worth it. The advantage of some of those products are that customer feedback can change the product rapidly. So if they deploy a La Mer improved or something like that, they change the smell or packaging or whatever, and then customer feedback is like, oh, we don’t like this. They can change it, right? Because it’s not medical grade. There’s no FDA approval. There’s no process. They’re not controlling the ingredients. Whereas something like AnteAGE for it to add the biosomes is a big deal. It’s an investment in cost. They’re not worried. They don’t want to add fragrances. They’re not really, they’re sort of interested in the packaging, but only to a certain extent,

Bri (11:15):
Not a ton. But when the representative that came in to show us, she went through a very, very detailed, very detailed presentation on everything. The quality, where it’s made, who it comes from. Yeah, it’s so much better.

Dr. Gallus (11:33):
And a lot of the other skincare products are all made at the same place and then just relabeled with different packaging. Moving on, I have the 10% vitamin C, self activating. I do like the AlumierMD vitamin C serum. So I’m trying this one because we just started carrying this in our office. I’m going to give this whirl. I think vitamin C makes you break out. It does, but I’m not there yet. In my skincare journey, if you can tolerate it, it’s a great antioxidant and brightening agent. But it does. And I know I’ve used a different version of the vitamin C from ZO in the past, and it can be really harsh on your skin, but it might be overuse of the exfoliating polish. So this stuff is great. So the thing about exfoliation is you need to do it. Otherwise, if you have a bunch of dead skin sitting on your face, all the expensive stuff you’re putting on there isn’t getting in. So you need to be able to get product penetration. So some exfoliation is important. That’s why those getting skin ready pads are great because it’s gentle exfoliation. The bright and clear solution is kind of a gentle daily exfoliation. You don’t feel like you’re accomplishing anything, but it is slowly helping remove the dead skin. This is definitely more aggressive but important. It’s just most people can tolerate it maybe once or twice a week.

Bri (12:58):
Yeah, I use it once a week.

Dr. Gallus (12:58):
I did use it every day for several days, and then I woke up in the middle of the night and my face was itching because I tend to have a little bit more greasy skin, like more oily skin. And so in the past I’ve been able to exfoliate away and not make a dent, but now it’s wintertime and my skin barrier is a little more sensitive. And if I exfoliate like a crazy 15-year-old, I’m going to feel it. So important so that the other stuff can do its work, but not so aggressive that you ruin your skin barrier. And then last but not least, freaking skincare or sunscreen skin.

Bri (13:38):
We love sunscreen.

Dr. Gallus (13:39):
This is skincare in your sunscreen. So it is a mineral sunscreen and it has DNA repair zone. So it’s also fighting off the damage that you already incurred by being exposed to the sun. I have the tinted version. That’s the one I like. There’s a really lovely clear version, but ISDIN makes, I mean, hands down the best sunscreen. Pretty much everyone in our office uses this one

Bri (14:02):
And it’s super, super light and it honestly sets well. I’ve tried a couple of sunscreens that starts to peel off when you start to put your makeup on, but everything sets really well with this under it.

Dr. Gallus (14:11):
Yeah, I agree. This one is sheer, it’s very liquidy, so it takes a little getting used to when you first pour it out, you’re like, huh, because it’s not super creamy. But when you put it on, it’s almost like a lightweight serum. Yeah, it’s super light. And then you can put whatever you want on top of it or just leave it as is. Yeah, it slays. Yeah, I think that’s kind of what we’re hoping for Christmas. Yeah. I would love to do a CO2 as well around the eyes. Might have to settle for radiofrequency microneedling and a little dusting, maybe some PRP and some PRP. Spa Day. Spa day.

Bri (14:45):
That’s what I want for Christmas is a spa day.

Dr. Gallus (14:46):
I already looked at our schedule and it is maxed to the out because I was looking for some space, some time to do some things, and it’s crazy. We are on a race to the end of the year. A hundred percent.

Bri (14:58):
I feel like I live here. I actually feel like I’m here more than I am at home.

Dr. Gallus (15:02):
It’s this time of year, to be

Bri (15:04):
Honest. Don’t worry, I won’t let her forget it.

Dr. Gallus (15:06):
We’re here for you. All right, so speaking of Christmas time and how busy we are, this is just a short, sweet segment. Let us know what your wishlist is for Christmas and what your opinion is on skincare. We’re interested and have a merry holiday season.

Bri (15:27):
Yes, Feliz Navidad.

Dr. Gallus (15:33):
Bye. Peace. If you’re listening today and have questions, need info about scheduling, financing, reviews, or photos, check out the show notes for links. Restore SD Plastic Surgery is located in La Jolla, California. To learn more about us, go to restoresdplasticsurgery.com or follow us on Instagram @restoreSDplasticsurgery. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it and subscribe to All the B’s on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts.

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About Restore SD & Dr. Katerina Gallus

As the Director of Restore SD Plastic Surgery, board certified female San Diego plastic surgeon Dr. Katerina Gallus has over 20 years of experience helping patients enjoy head to toe rejuvenation with face, breast and body procedures. After a successful career as a Navy plastic surgeon, Dr. Gallus founded her San Diego plastic surgery center, Restore SD Plastic Surgery, with the intention of creating a welcoming space for anyone seeking cosmetic enhancement.

Restore SD Plastic Surgery offers popular facial rejuvenation procedures like facelift & neck lift, facial fat transfer, nanofat grafting and rhinoplasty; breast augmentation with implants, breast lifts or breast reduction; body contouring procedures such as tummy tuck, liposuction, mommy makeover, and Brazilian butt lift (BBL), as well as non-surgical aesthetician services, BOTOX, dermal fillers, laser treatments, and weight loss injections.

Dr. Gallus and her highly-experienced aesthetics team are here to help you look and feel your best! To schedule a personal consultation, please contact us online or call our office at (858) 224-2281 today. We proudly serve the San Diego and La Jolla areas.