Exclusive | Goodbye BBL, hello Topeka tush: The rise of undetectable cosmetic surgery in ‘quiet luxury’ trend

Where have all the boobs, butts and Botox gone?

Say goodbye to the Brazilian Butt Lift and hello to the rise of the Topeka tush. Slimmed-down, fresh-faced celebs have ushered in a new wave of undetectable aesthetics, from covert facelifts to inconspicuous butt lifts that one doctor is calling the “Midwest BBL.”

“The era of extreme makeovers is of the past,” double-board-certified facial plastic surgeon Dr. Akshay Sanan told The Post, adding that there is “an emphasis on refreshed, well-rested and naturally youthful appearances.”

“In the past, highly altered changes to your face were considered ‘normal.’ But now, celebrities have had ‘great’ work — work that doesn’t look like work — [which] are admired and requested.”

Surgery speculation was abuzz online about Lindsay Lohan after she made a public appearance with a noticeably fresher face — although her father denied the allegations — while Christina Aguilera set social media ablaze with rumors that she went under the knife. Even the Kardashians have reportedly deflated their infamous curves.

Dubbed a “beauty revolution,” under-the-radar procedures that yield subtle, anti-aging results are on the rise across the nation.

“People want to be elevated, people want to be lifted. You want to be sculpted, you want to be toned — but in their own natural aesthetic,” board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Eric W. Anderson, of Chicago’s Impressions Face and Body, told The Post.

“Just because I’m a plastic surgeon doesn’t mean it has to be dramatic, but just because it’s subtle doesn’t mean it’s not meaningful. The most meaningful plastic surgery I do is where someone feels like themselves, but better.”

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No butts about it

A whopping 90% of Anderson’s patients request more natural-looking surgical results, a stark contrast from the Kardashian-inspired heyday of voluptuous curves manufactured by dramatic butt lifts and ballooning breast implants.

As a result, he coined the term the “Midwest BBL,” a nod to the ordinary appearances of Midwesterners which he describes as “very undetectable, very subtle, very refined” and even “quiet luxury.”

“Nobody in the Midwest wants to be overdone or dramatic. It’s very uncommon to have someone come in and want a ridiculous size of a breast implant or a ridiculous, dramatic, overdone BBL,” he explained, adding that “your butt doesn’t have to enter a room before you do.”

“It’s always been in the Midwest, but I think that the turn and change of society is that now in the more coastal areas — New York, LA, Miami — now, they’re starting to see the rise of the Midwest aesthetic.”

Best face forward

Dr. Sean Alemi, an NYC-based double board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, is booked through May for deep plane facelifts, a procedure that allows surgeons to “leave the skin and underlying muscular layers attached to one another and reposition them as one unit, which creates a smooth, lifted appearance rather than a pulled one,” he told The Post.

“The deep plane facelift has become immensely popular because when executed correctly, it has become synonymous with an undetectable facelift,” explained Alemi, who also offers upper blepharoplasty, a procedure to remove skin and fat from the upper eyelid.

He has seen an “increasing interest in longevity and wellness,” and people want to “maintain a youthful, refreshed look into their 40s, 50s and 60s.”

It’s a far cry from the image that comes to mind when the general population imagines a “facelift.”

“When people think about facelifts, I think we think about ladies that look like they’re in a wind tunnel. It’s very obvious — everything’s very tight, but it doesn’t necessarily look natural,” board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Kristy Hamilton, who is also the social media chair of the American Society of Plastic Surgery, told The Post.

“The reality is, now, patients are walking around and they just look great.”

At her Texas practice, 90% of her patients are asking for undetectable procedures that yield “longer, leaner, more athletic” results and create “bodies that could be found in nature” — despite going under the knife to achieve it.

“Patients want refreshed, youthful results without obvious signs of surgery, and advancements in minimally invasive technology have made this possible,” NYC cosmetic surgeon Dr. David Shokrian told The Post.

“Techniques that once required weeks of recovery now offer near-instantaneous results, making them more accessible than ever.”

Kissing filler goodbye

Gen Z, Hamilton noted, is opting for brow lifts, achieved with a simple, one-centimeter incision in the scalp, as well as lip lifts, which she says is “a little bit of a push away from augmenting things with filler” by adding volume.

“Younger patients prefer ‘prejuvenation’ — early, meaningful interventions to maintain youthfulness rather than waiting for dramatic changes later in life,” Sanan said.

It coincides with a shift away from injectables, such as hyaluronic acid fillers, as patients opt for anti-aging treatments like exosomes, salmon sperm or the use of lasers.

“They’re like, OK, I don’t want my lips coming forward. I don’t want to look like a duck,” Hamilton said, adding that “constantly pumping in filler” to the face “doesn’t make sense.”

“There’s only so much volume we need in our faces.”

“Turkey teeth” bite the dust

Experts say the days of garish chiclet veneers are also behind us, which Dr. Jon Marashai, a celebrity dentist based in Los Angeles, blames, in part, on the influx of remote work, which forced people to look at themselves on Zoom calls all day long.

“The smile is the number one thing that people notice and the reason for that is because your mouth is moving and when your mouth is moving, the eyes are drawn to the feature that is moving, plain and simple,” he told The Post.

“So all of a sudden, people start noticing their teeth and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, my teeth don’t look nice and I need to fix them.’”

He sees two kinds of patients: those who want to correct their botched veneers and those who have never considered them due to fear-mongering tales of “Turkey teeth.”

Both parties, he said, desire natural-looking smiles that he calls “quiet luxury” veneers — a procedure he says falls in line with the overarching plastic surgery trend.

“It’s bigger than just the teeth itself,” he said.”I think it’s a representation of what’s going on, even in a culture and in a society.”