Makeup Artist Kristofer Buckle Reveals Plastic Surgery Transformation

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Kristofer Buckle is unpacking his plastic surgery journey.

The celebrity makeup artist—whose clients include Khloe Kardashian, Blake Lively and Mariah Carey—shared an update with his social media followers four days after undergoing several procedures including a neck lift, lower face lift, brow lift and chin augmentation.

“I'm swollen, I'm bruised—that's totally expected,” he said in a video posted on Instagram June 28. “My neck is a little yellow, but all of the pressure that I was having initially? Gone.”

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In fact, Kristofer admitted that the process wasn’t as unpleasant as some might expect, stating, “I don't remember having any pain at any point.”

“It's just discomfort and weird feelings, but it's never pain,” he continued, noting that he was taking Valium, Tylenol and “a nerve blocker” to soothe his irritation.

While Kristofer did point out that he experienced “a little bit of bruising,” he said he expected the marks to clear up “within the next few days.”

Keep scrolling to see what other stars have said about their experiences with plastic surgery…

Keep scrolling to see what other stars have said about their experiences with plastic surgery

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As for the results, Kristofer said he was “thrilled” with his new look, adding, “I feel amazing.”

The beauty guru got plenty of compliments on his transformation from his celebrity pals including Kelly Ripa, who commented on his post that he looked “snatched and gorgeous, like always.”

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Other stars have also spoken about going under the knife including Ricki Lake, who recently shared that she underwent her own cosmetic procedure after shedding more than 30 pounds.

“I’ve had a lower face and neck lift,” she told Andy Cohen during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live June 12. “I lost a lot of weight and I had this certain thing hanging and I had it fixed.”

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The 56-year-old also explained that she wanted to be open about her experience to eliminate shame around the process.

“I love that I can talk about it. I’m fully transparent, always have been,” she went on. “I don’t want there to be any stigma. This is something that was bothering me.”

Keep scrolling to see what other stars have said about their experiences with plastic surgery…

Barbara Corcoran

The Shark Tank star shared a laundry list of plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures she's undergone over the years in a June 2025 Instagram post.

Andy Cohen

The Watch What Happens Live host, who had been open through the years about never getting Botox, revealed in March 2025 that he had embarked on his cosmetic journey and finally got the injectable procedure, which aims to reduce wrinkles.

"I just got it for the first time in my life," he said during the season 11 reunion episode of Married to Medicine. "About a month ago. They gave me a little."

Martha Stewart

After years of denying cosmetic procedures, the lifestyle expert confessed in a February 2024 episode of her eponymous podcast that she gets Botox, fillers and lasers to tighten her skin. "I don't think a lot about age," she explained, "but I don't want to look my age."

Jana Kramer

The One Tree Hill alum discussed her cosmetic procedures—including Botox and getting breast implants—on her Whine Down podcast in February 2024. During the episode, she confessed her one qualm about her boob job.

“My biggest regret with my boobs is that I don't know if I solely did it for me,” Jana said. “My biggest piece of advice is it has to be 100 percent for you.”

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Ariana Grande

In a Vanity Fair video released September 2024, the Wicked actress shared, "I've had fillers in various places and Botox, but I stopped like, four years ago. And that is the extent."

Kailyn Lowry

The Teen Mom 2 alum, a mother of seven, underwent a Brazlian butt lift and tummy tuck in 2016, and another tummy tuck, liposuction and breast reduction surgery in December 2024.

A month later, she spoke candidly about wrestling with her body image.

"I pray that my kids never struggle with their body images enough to mutilate their bodies to be skinny," she said on Instagram. "I think a little nip and tuck in terms of a nose job, or like a boob job is OK. But to go through this to be skinny is mental illness, truly. And I say that with the most respect to anyone going through it."

Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Blanchard underwent a rhinoplasty and septoplasty (nose job) in April 2024, three months after she was released from prison (where she served seven years for her role in the murder of her mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard).

Caroline Stanbury

The Real Housewives of Dubai star publicly documented her November 2023 face lift and the recovery on social media.

"I wanted people to see how, when you come out, the scars and the cuts and what it really looks like," she exclusively told E! News of the procedure. "I literally looked like I'd been in a car crash and the car had won, but five days later you're presentable. Ten days later I was in a restaurant completely fine."

As for why the Bravo star was so open about her face lift journey? As she noted, "Being on a reality TV show, obviously it's going to look weird if I come back next season looking 10 years younger, which I do, obviously."

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Selena Gomez

Part of the price of beauty for the "Who Says" singer: The occasional dabble with Botox.

Brandi Glanville

The former Bravo star has been candid about her plastic surgery procedures in the past, including getting a nose job, having breast implants and dabbling with Botox and filler. And in 2024, she turned to CellSound's body sculpting treatment to tighten her stomach.

"I have actual abs," she told People in an interview published March 2024. "I have lines on my stomach that I haven't had since before I got pregnant. I think any mother knows after kids the elasticity of your skin will never be the same."

She also revealed in April 2025 that she's spent over $113,000 seeking treatment for a mysterious facial parasite.

Ariana Madix

Responding to an Instagram user who accused the Vanderpump Rules star of getting lip filler, Botox, jawline contouring with liposuction and eyelid surgery, Madix clapped back by confirming all of her past cosmetic procedures.

“i’ll tell you what i’ve had!” she wrote on Instagram in July 2024. “you’re partially correct. tox in 11’s, outer brow, and my neck. ellevate for my neck in 2019 by @theneckdoctor minimal lip filler bc my face is too small to handle very much and filler in my chin. absolutely no filler anywhere else and def no bleph yet. hope this helps! i’ll keep yall posted if i do anything else.”

Jill Zarin

"I'm bravely sharing that I had a lower facelift and a couple other minor tweaks," Zarin said in a June 2024 Instagram video, with a black bandage wrapped around her head. "I had a fat transplant put into my hands because I hated my hands, and the worst part was the lipo coming out of my leg to fill my hands. Believe it or not, that's the most pain I've had."

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Brittany Cartwright

The Valley star revealed she underwent facial liposuction before filming the Bravo spinoff.

"I had work done on my double chin. We call it the turkey gobbler, runs in my family," she said on the March 2024 episode of her When Reality Hits podcast. "No matter what I was going through, no matter how much weight I lost, I still felt I had something there."

Lily Allen

Following her breakup from Stranger Things' David Harbour, the "Smile" singer revealed she got "additions" in the way of a boob job.

"They look really incredible when I take my top off and my bra off," she shared on a March 2025 episode of her Miss Me? podcast. "But there's definitely a contrast in age between my breasts and my face."

Tori Spelling

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star has spoken publicly about her nose job and her breast implants.

Sharon Osbourne

In addition to getting candid on using Ozempic for weight loss, the talk show host admitted that her 2021 facelift was "the worst thing that I ever did," explaining in December 2023, "I looked like Cyclops."

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Lady Gaga

"I've never had any work-work done, but I went through a phase when I was smoking pot when I was really obsessed with getting facial injections," the "Born This Way" singer told radio host Howard Stern in 2013. "I was going to this strip mall in Chicago in the back…Everybody was like, 'You are a nut job.'...I'm telling you, I wasn't exactly in the best frame of mind, and I would smoke a bunch of joints and have some drinks and I would be like, 'Oh, let's go see my girl' and we would drive to this strip mall and I would get shot up with a bunch of whatever, Juvéderm, and then leave."

She continued, "Now all the stuff is gone. Before I shot the 'Applause' video, [a photographer friend] was like, 'Gaga, I love you but if you don't stop injecting s--t in your face I'm going to just kill you.'"

Bethenny Frankel

The Real Housewives of New York star got breast implants in 2005, but removed them in 2008.

"Now I feel comfortable," she told Life & Style. "If there's something you're not comfortable with and you can correct it, great."

Olivia Colman

The Crown star revealed that she's a fan of Botox. "I've had loads," the actress told BBC Radio 2.

Julie Chen

In 2013, The Talk co-host revealed on the show that she got plastic surgery at the beginning of her career in order to make her eyes look bigger.

"And after I had it done, the ball did roll for me," she said. "And I wondered, did I give in to the man?"

She added, "I have to live with every decision that I've made. And it got me to where we are today. And I'm not going to look back."

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Jamie Lee Curtis

"I've done it all," the actress told The Telegraph in 2002. "I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it."

Jennifer Aniston

"I had [a deviated septum] fixed—best thing I ever did," the actress told People in 2007. "I slept like a baby for the first time in years. As far as all the other [rumors], as boring as it sounds, it's still mine. All of it. Still mine."

NeNe Leakes

In 2010, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star revealed that she had had a nose job, a breast lift and liposuction.

"I'm very comfortable and confident in myself," she told People. "I just wanted a tune up."

Kim Zolciak

In 2015, the reality star called Dr. Lenny Hochstein her "boob God" doctor for giving her perky breasts. Of course, the reality TV personality has been an open book about her other procedures, including a tummy tuck and lip injections.

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