Hi, I’m Tabasum Mir, I’m a Cosmetic Surgeon
and this is how I work it.
I’m gonna take you through a typical day
of my beauty and wellness routine.
I am ready to head to the office.
On an average day, I can see anywhere
from 10 to 25 patients, depending if I’m operating or not
and my patients range anywhere from 20 to 70.
So I do both nonsurgical and surgical cosmetic procedures,
so that includes anything from Botox and fillers
and threads all the way up to surgical cellulite removal,
liposuction, eyelid lifts, and facelifts and necklifts
and I also travel throughout the year to plastic surgery
and aesthetic conferences for speaking engagements.
So I normally wake up by six o’clock in the morning.
Good morning, I got an hour before I have to head
to the office, it’s currently 5:30 am,
and one thing that I do, that’s very important
first thing in the morning is I hydrate,
I try and drink as much water as I can in the morning
so I can get my first PN before my day starts
’cause it’s very difficult to go
to the bathroom when you’re operating.
So next step I have to have my morning coffee.
My favorite parts, adding the frothy milk to the coffee.
All right, let’s go downstairs and get beautified.
It doesn’t matter what kind of day I’m having,
whether it’s OR, oris patients, I always put makeup on.
Typically, I shower the night before and I hydrate.
I usually don’t shower again
in the morning unless it’s a very hot summer day,
but generally, the night before is when I shower.
I’m gonna start my skincare routine
and I love these little cellulose sponges.
Get them on Amazon and as soon as you make them wet,
they are good to go and I love
my La Roche Posay products.
This one is their gentle foaming face wash,
I love this thing and this little sponge is so good
because it gives you like a little bit of exfoliation,
it just feels so massaging and liberating in the morning
and I really feel like it like brings back
the circulation into the face.
I’m dried off.
I’ve been loving this B Oil Serum from the Ordinary,
so I just put a little dab of that on first
and I have always loved these La Roche Posay products
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and that is my skincare routine for the morning.
So next step is my makeup routine
and I love long wearing makeup
and the reason is it needs to last.
I am seeing patients all day long,
I’m in the OR, I don’t touch up.
I just don’t look at my face all day, to be honest with you
and I just wanna make sure my makeup lasts
and I think I found the right products for that.
So I start with my foundation,
which is the Born This Way Matte Concealer from Too Faced.
I love this one, it’s all day wear,
but it still looks like skin.
I have my little Trustee foundation mixer
and I actually just found this Elf Halo Glow.
This is like the best do for Charlotte Tilbury’s
like Flawless Filter and because this can be
a little bit matte and flat,
I mix a little bit of this Halo Glow in there just
to give me a little bit of light reflectivity
without any glitter and that’s about all I use.
I’ve always loved this Elf Buffing Foundation.
I’ve had 300, $400 brushes and this is like a $5 brush
that I find just as awesome
and I just kind of dab on and then this is my can color,
which I tend to spend more time
and money on summer foundations than winter foundations.
I’ll have a winter foundation
and then I’ll just kind of hang onto that,
but for my summer colors,
I really love spending the time on summer colors
and I know this seems so strange,
but I don’t put any foundation on my forehead
and I think that’s because I have my surgical caps on
or I’ll have my loops on
I just don’t put makeup on my forehead, I know, weird.
Next step is my concealer.
I always conceal my under eyes, I just think you can use
a little extra coverage there especially
if you haven’t been sleeping.
I love these two, the Tarte Shape Tape, I’ve been using this
for years and recently the Huda Beauty Faux Filter.
I tend to just cover the areas that are hollow,
everybody has like a hollow on their under eye
and I cover that.
I don’t do that V that everybody does
and then I might do a little bit up here just
to kind give you a lift and then another trick
I’ve kind of learned especially ’cause I do a lot
of eyelid surgeries everybody wants that lift laterally.
They all want that little cat eye thing.
Well, you can kind of do it with makeup
by taking a lighter foundation
and just putting it a little bit right here
and then I put a little bit on the inner side here
and then that blends out really nicely.
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So next, I set my under eyes,
I’ve been really loving this Patrick Starrr One Size Beauty.
This thing is great,
it has amazing coverage and it’s just silky.
I don’t bake I just-
I’ve never been a under eye baker
I think it makes my eyes look too dry
and then I put it over the upper lids also.
So my eyebrow routine is sort of tried and true.
Believe it or not, I use hair gel called, Got 2B Glue.
If you put this on your brows, your brows will not move
and I’ve been doing this a long time,
I’ve had no damage to my brows.
I start by taking a little scoop of the hair gel
and I put it on my brows with the flat end
and then I kind of go in and I brush them up and out.
This gives me a nice laminate effect,
I think that’s the style right now
and I do love it.
You do need to be careful not to look
like you stuck your finger in a light socket
with this look though and I do fill in the sparse browse
with these brow pens.
So I’ve been really loving these two,
the Milani Weekend Brow and the NYX Lift & Snatch.
These are two of my favorite.
You can buy them in the drug store, but they are better
than almost anything I’ve tried in the department store
and whatever sparseness I have, I just fill it in.
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So I’ve been using the Patrick Starrr Bronzer
because it gives you three different shades.
Because I do eyelid surgeries, I sometimes-
I have to recreate their eyelid creases
and oftentimes as people age,
their eyelid crease gets lower.
So in order to make it more useful,
you wanna lift up that crease in surgery.
You can do that with your makeup by putting your contour
for that crease above your actual crease.
So my actual crease is right here,
but I’m putting the contour a little bit above that.
Try that out and you’re gonna notice
your eyes look more lifted.
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Next step is eyeliner and mascara.
This Natasha Denona is blacker than-
I’ve never seen a eyeliner this black before in a pen,
so we’re gonna use this.
It’s really important for me to have
this makeup routine not just for myself, but for my work.
I feel better when I’m made up, but also for my work,
it is important as a woman to put your best face forward.
I do think we are put under more pressure to look better
and I know that when my patients come in,
they absolutely love when I’m put together.
It makes them feel better and makes them feel more confident
that they’re gonna be getting the care that they want
because they look at my aesthetic
and they wanna achieve that as well.
So I’ve been loving blush.
Blush is definitely having a moment.
In plastic surgery, we look at this sort of things
when we do facelifts and eyelid lifts.
If you start putting your blush up
by your actual zygoma, which is the cheek bone,
then you’re gonna have more of a lifted look.
If you put your blush right in the center,
it’s gonna give you a very useful, girly baby doll look.
So trust me, I’m loving the moment blush is having
and I am using this one by Dior.
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I finish everything off with setting spray
and currently the one that I love is the one
by Huda Beauty called Resting Boss Face.
So I just kind of soak that on the end of beauty sponge
and I dab that in.
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The next step is lipstick or for me,
I don’t really use a lot of lipstick.
I’ll probably line my lips with a long wearing lip liner
and then put a lip oil over it or a lip balm.
The one I’m really liking right now is
this Huda Beauty Lip Contour and the Dior Lip Oil.
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So this makeup routine really works for me,
it’s easy for me to do, it’s less than 15 minutes
and it lasts me all day long.
I don’t need to touch up,
I don’t need to look at my face,
I just know this is gonna work on me
and it’s transfer proof, sweat resistant,
and literally takes me from 7:00 am ’til 7:00 pm,
very easy, very quick, and very reliable.
So once my makeup is done, my hair is next.
Now, I gotta be honest with you,
I cannot spend a lot of time on my hair.
My hair kind of needs to be like,
I gotta work with whatever’s going on.
So one thing I found to be amazing for me,
time and time again is my Dyson hair straightener.
I have very textured hair that can be really unruly
and when I use the Dyson hair straightener,
it lasts several days and in the morning when I wake up,
I can put a quick comb through it and if there’s some areas
that are a little bit bending or curly or textured,
I can just run the straight iron through it
and it looks like this and it lasts all day.
Doing this makes it tamable and manageable
because I’m wearing a scrub cap
and a surgical cap all day long
so I don’t wanna have hair sticking out of there,
so this is my best way to be able to manage it
with very little fuss.
So for the office, I wear scrubs,
but my thing is I wear them in all different colors.
I have fuchsia colored, I have red, I have obviously, black,
but I love color and so when I am picking out my scrubs,
I’m going to pick them out based on
how I feel and the color that I feel for that day.
I have like this little sporty skirt and this top
and that’s what I’m gonna wear into the office.
It’ll be very easy to change from that to my scrubs
and then back out after work is done.
Okay, I’m all dressed and I am ready to head to the office.
After I’m done, I tend to just grab my backpack
and head to the office and I tend to walk
to the office most days of the week.
As soon as I get to the office,
I am ready to go guns blazing.
I need to make sure the ORs been set up,
I need to make sure my nurse
and my medical assistant have everything together,
the patient’s been checked in.
I mean, I walk in and I feel like I’m barking orders
at everybody, but everybody loves it
and they know that they expect it of me
and so that’s sort of how I start my day.
I just have to make sure everything is ready to go
for the case and nothing is missing
and then after I’ve made sure everything is set
and right before I’m going to see the patient
and take photos, I change into my scrubs
and I can put my surgical cap on at that point.
I am all ready to get going.
I got my surgical gear on and we’re ready
to start our first OR case today.
When we’re in the OR especially
if we’re doing body cases, it’s really important for me
and my staff to have really great posture
and upper body strength and stamina
because very often the patients are sedated
and we have to move their bodies for them especially
if we’re doing say a liposuction
or a 360 liposuction to the abdominal area.
So myself and my staff, we really do try
and keep physically fit outside of the operating room.
For me personally, yoga helps me a lot to stay stretched
and can kinda keep limber.
Sometimes doing a liposuction is equivalent
to a peloton class.
My hands are instrumental in this field.
I use it for everything from microsurgery to big operations
and no matter what, I have to keep my nails short
or at least probably as long as they are now.
I can’t keep them longer than this
because it’s hard to grasp things on the patient
and it’s also hard to wear gloves
because when you put the gloves on,
you can tear your nails through a glove.
So when I’m done with my first case
and in between my cases is when I generally try
to get some sort of hydration and protein.
Last case is about four hours long, having a quick snack
and then I’m getting back to the OR right after this.
When I’m operating, I tend to be using my elbows a lot
and I can get really bad tendonitis especially
with the liposuction procedures,
so I have to stretch in between every case
and the way I do that is I either take my hands
all the way out and I pull back like this
or I pull down like this
or I have a little toy that I use
that helps me with stretching.
So what I do is that really helps pull that tendon
and really just break down that lactic acid
that builds up in there.
So sometimes in between cases or after a few cases,
I’ll do this, depends on if I have a really long case
and another thing I like doing is like
with my lower back area, I tend to kind of twist sideways
because that really helps loosen up the lower back
because we’re all standing all the time, hunching over,
and that really helps and then like with my neck,
kind of like using my shoulder blades, keeping ’em nice
and straight and just like looking-
Oh, it feels good and then looking all the way down
’cause as you kind of do the work that we do,
the back of your neck gets really tight as well.
Doing these stretching really does help me feel more limber
and less pain for the next set of cases.
My mental switch really happens
when I’m done with my OR case.
We’re usually gowned and scrubbed up,
so we have surgical gowns, surgical mask, surgical gloves,
and when all that comes off, it’s like ripping off your bra
at the end of the day.
You just rip it off, to me,
that kind of mentally prepares me
that I’m finished with my operating case
and then when I walk out, I generally, you know,
I take my surgical cap off.
It can be a little intimidating for people,
they see me in that when they’re just getting Botox done.
It’s like, What are you doing to me?
And that kind of helps me readjust my mindset
that I’ve just left the operating room
and now, I’m going to see a patient in the office.
So after I’m done with all my appointments for the day,
it’s usually around six to 7:00 pm at that point
and if I have dinner plans later that day,
I would like them to be around eight o’clock,
that way I can have a little bit of a mental reset
because when I’m finished with work,
I like to walk home.
All right, that’s a wrap for the day at work.
We had such an amazing day and now I’m walking home
and on my walk home, I just sort of like to take it easy.
I don’t really like to talk to many people.
It’s almost like my time to decompress
and it’s my alone time and it’s kind of like private time.
So I’m gonna enjoy myself on my walk home.
Oftentimes, I’m going right from work to dinner
and the biggest thing that I found a huge tip for me is
to plan my outfits ahead of time.
If I know I’m going to three or four dinners that week,
I might take some time on the weekend
or maybe on Sunday night just to put together some outfits
for me so that when I do get home,
I can just grab one and go because for me, personally,
it’s the outfit that really kills time
and always seems to make me late for my dinners.
When I touch up my makeup before I go out,
I try and do as little as possible
because I really like the look of makeup once it’s worn in
and mixed with your natural oils,
so I might put on more under eye concealer
or I might put on some blush and that’s really
the extent of it because generally,
the rest of it has lasted long enough.
My evening dinners are-
A lot of times I’m meeting with other people
on the medical and plastic surgery professions,
whether it’s pharmaceuticals, medical devices,
other doctors, I do a lot of speaking nationally
so I’m meeting with a lot of these people after work.
I definitely have my social time,
but I really reserve my week for dinners
that are work related so I can have a little bit more fun
with my friends on the weekends.
So after I’m done with dinner,
I usually Uber home and get in my apartment
and the first thing I do really is brush my teeth,
wash my face, shower, and get ready for bed.
Because for me, the breakdown of all the makeup
and the grime from the city is really important.
I need to be completely clean before I get into bed.
I generally, try to get to bed before midnight,
I don’t require a lot of sleep.
If I get six hours, I’m totally fine.
Six hours to me is plenty of sleep.
Some people need more, but for me, if I get six, I’m fine.
So if I’m in bed by midnight and if I’m up at 6:00 am,
then that’s a good night of sleep for me.
I don’t wash my hair every night.
I have a lot of hair and I don’t think you need
to wash your hair every night
because it really does strip your hair of natural oils.
I mean, unless I’m at the gym
or I’m at really sweaty or really, you know,
like got rained on, I don’t wash my hair every night.
My nighttime routine is also very simple.
I think I spend a lot more time and effort
on procedures to help with my skin,
so the skincare routine can be simplified.
I spend more time taking that makeup off,
I use a cleansing oil.
I do dual cleansing so I will strip down my makeup
with a cleansing oil then I’ll wash afterwards.
I use my Trustee cellulose sponge,
I use my La Roche Posay cleansers,
so I do a dual cleansing.
After that, I’ll use an oil based serum on my face.
The Ordinary makes one called B Oil that I love.
So at night I tend to just really keep it very simple.
If I feel very dry, I’ll use oil or serum on my face
and then I sometimes put a little bit
of castor oil on my lashes just to keep them very healthy.
Before I go to bed, I really try to wind down,
I try and minimize my electronics,
I try to put my phone away.
I look at the cases I have for the next day
so I can mentally prepare for what I’m going to do.
I kind of review any emails that I need to at that time.
If I’m writing a speech or a lecture or planning for one,
this is the time I try to do it
and I also try and have minimal electronics one hour
before bedtime, I’m still working on that part.
I am gonna go to bed now.
Allure, thank you so much for spending the day with me.
It was fun having ya.
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