Call her the infomercial queen.
You might remember Dr. Kelly O’Malley Mattone from advertisements for Bare Escentuals Bare Minerals, Fitness Made Simple, and Physician Skin Care, but the doctor would rather be endorsing her own products, which are featured proudly in her growing cosmetic medicine practice in the Village of Great Neck Plaza.
“We’ll probably start selling them online as well,” she said. “Then who knows? Maybe onto QVC.”
The Manhasset resident developed a line of medical-grade skin care products with her sister, Dr. Susan O’Malley, who has a cosmetic medical practice in Connecticut.
They both made the switch to cosmetic medicine in 2000, Mattone from sports medicine. She started out with a home office and moved to 8 Bond Street eight years ago, recently upgrading from a smaller suite in the same building.
Mattone said her specialties are more similar that it would seem. Sports medicine found her using ultrasound and injections to heal injuries. She puts those same skills to use at Aesthetic Medical Studio.
She offers nonsurgical cosmetic procedures including Microcurrent Facial Sculpting, which lifts and firms muscles, Invisilift, which uses sound waves to tighten and tone the face and neck, Endermologie, a sucking and rolling technique that reduces cellulite and circumference, Botox, and dermal fillers.
Also offered are massage therapy, waxing, and a variety of facials, thanks to licensed massage therapist Nicole Nahmias and licensed aesthetician Grace Drazal.
Mattone said any doctor or nurse can be trained to inject, but it takes an artistic eye to excel.
“That’s how I express my artistic side of me,” she said. “It’s not cookbook medicine to be injecting people’s faces, and I’m really good at what I do.”
Mattone won one of the top prizes in a worldwide MicroCurrent competition and said her clients come from as far away as France and Israel. Although she cannot confirm or deny they are patients, her wall of fame includes pictures of Former Gov. Mario Cuomo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Russell Crowe, and Suzanne Summers.
“I know them and am now friends with all of them,” she said.
Although Mattone always wanted to work in the medical profession, it was her cocktail waitress/roller skating professional/hairstylist mother who convinced her to be a doctor.
“In 1967 my mother looked at me and said, ‘Why would you want to be a nurse when youcould be a doctor,'” she said. “In the ‘60s, little girls became doctors and boys became doctors.”
Her father was a soil analyst at Belmont Park and Aqueduct, which gave Mattone plenty of time to hang out at the track.
“I grew up around jockeys. I used to wear Angel Cordero’s jeans,” she said, referring to the famous jockey.
Mattone was scouted by a modeling agent at 13-years-old, but her mother refused the offer. That might be why she entered am over 40 modeling contest and won.
“I was one of 15 out of 15,000 women,” she said. “I was interviewed for MORE magazine. I had a full page spread.”
In it she mentioned her love of Bare Escentuals, which lead to her endorsements.
“To me it’s always god’s little plan and timing is everything,” she said. “I would never endorse something I did not believe in.”
