Welcome to „Face It,“ in which practitioners, dermatologists, facialists and other beauty experts answer our rapid-fire questions (quicker than you can say „just a few more units, please?“), revealing their hottest takes, most controversial opinions and the hard truths they wish their clients could come to terms with.
Amy Peterson has spent the last 20 years as a renowned medical aesthetician and educator in the beauty space — and she’s also the founder of her own brand, Lenox and Sixteenth — so it’s safe to say she has her fair share of skin-care hot takes. One of which is that more work is not always better.
„I really think it’s all about the artistic thought behind using these treatments and modalities to make your skin look the healthiest,“ she tells Fashionista.
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At her Miami Beach skin-care clinic, Peterson offers a range of innovative services. From an injectable fat matrix called Renuva that restores volume loss, to pulsed light device BBL HEROic (no, not that BBL), which stimulates cell regeneration and helps with texture.
„I remember when I was a young girl, being like, ‚I’m going to get all these treatments for free because I work there.‘ And now I own this place and I pay for all my treatments. And now, I have a skin-care line [Lenox and Sixteenth], which I pay for,“ she says. „The whole thing can be expensive, to be honest with you.“
In the video below, Peterson shares more of her favorite facial procedures to give her celebrity clients, including plenty of lasers, devices and bioregeneratives. Plus, she tells us about the not-yet-existing futuristic beauty technology that would „probably put me out of business,“ the skin-care products she thinks are a scam and more.
Update, May 8, 2026, 11:00 a.m.: In the original version of this story, we noted that Peterson’s „skin-care hot take“ was that she believed „more work“ led to better results. Peterson later clarified that she misunderstood the question to mean what she believed was the most controversial skin-care take in general.
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