Dazed Media 2024

Georgia Woodard, owner of Pêche Skin Co. and licensed esthetician, got into a new relationship around six months into getting Botox regularly. Then in 2022, partway through dating, she stopped. “I remember him saying ‘Wow, you’ve gotten a lot more expressive,’” she says. They’ve since broken up and decided to be friends, but Woodard says he continues to point out how much more expressive she is now than when they were dating. “I was excited about something, it just wasn't coming across in my face or if I was happy, I just wasn’t getting the same interactions back from people,” she says. This bled into her professional life. As someone with a patient-facing role, she soon noticed that, after getting Botox, people thought she was much more stern or less friendly than before. “I had a couple of instances with patients where I realised my facial expressions weren’t matching what I was trying to get across,” she says. “I finally asked someone: ‘Does it seem like I’m upset or mad at you?’ and they said they thought I was.”