Like millions of people around the world, skin doctor extraordinaire Patricia Wexler, MD, watched the 2009 Golden Globes Sunday night. Order-in-sushi and homemade ginger tea — delicious — at her photography-filled Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, but for Dr. Wexler, the Golden Globes are also as much business as they are fun. Your Etceterist joined the good doctor for a night of TV.

ETCETERIST: So Pat, going into the evening, the big question was whether, from a beauty and fashion perspective, it would be gloom or glamour at the Globes. Out of respect for the economic crisis, would the stars play it down or dress it up?

DR. PAT WEXLER: Maybe they aren’t doing big diamonds, but they are getting their hair done and they certainly got their Golden Globe faces this week.

ETC: Golden Globe Faces?

PW: Filler, Botox, baby peels to look a little radiant, LED light treatments. My office was very busy this week.

ETC: Isn’t it a little risky to have Botox or filler the same week you are going to be on camera, in case you bruise or swell a bit?

PW: Yes, and that makes awards season rather stressful for me. But I know their faces very well and know where the blood vessels are so there isn’t a problem.

ETC: What are some of the comments you hear most from stars before an awards show?

PW: "High-definition TV is killing me!" As a result, look at the Globes tonight and see how the matte makeup look that was so trendy for a few years is “out.” And “in” is a very moist makeup, lots of moisture so the wrinkles and lines are quenched.

ETC: What other trends do you see tonight?

PW: Red hair! Red is the new blonde. Look at all the redheads tonight: Debra Messing, Rumer Willis, Susan Sarandon …

ETC: Any glaring, scary plastic surgeries or cosmetic enhancements?

PW: Not this year. No over-the-top peels, no Botox nightmare, no scary lips. In the past, we’ve seen the over-red faces — no, it wasn’t your TV set — from the too-aggressive peels, but not this year. Everything seems good. All faces moving. [An e-mail comes in on her BlackBerry.] Well, listen to this. A friend’s e-mail: "What did Tom Cruise have? I want it too!"

ETC: Does Tom Cruise look like he has done something?

PW: I think perhaps Tom has had some Botox. The lines between his eyebrows seem less distinctive. His cheekbones seem a little more prominent.

ETC: Who else? What else?

PW: Christina Applegate’s breast reconstruction and implants are beautiful. God bless her. 

I don’t like Debra Messing’s eye makeup. It’s too heavy and formal. Dark eye makeup like that is very aging. Evan Rachel Wood’s hair — that soft wave, styled by hairdresser Peter Butler, is beautiful. Eva Mendes has a smoky eye, but it is more lightly done than Debra’s and that looks great. Interesting how no one really has done a strong lip, but they’ve all gone for a strong eye; lips are “out” and eyes are “in.” I love Elisabeth Moss, but what about some makeup? That face needed more.

Jessica Lange’s sunglasses? Because she hasn’t had surgery.

Kate Winslet’s hair was better as the evening went on and it loosened up a bit. Up, it is too stern. Down, she looks softer.

I don’t like Laura Dern’s hair; I hate asymmetry because I am a surgeon. Kyra Sedgwick looks wonderful; her lips are smaller. A few years ago it looked as if she was starting to do cosmetic enhancements, but now it looks like she has slowed down. Do you think Bruce Springsteen has done something? I don’t. His forehead moves, he looks great. So, too, do Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. She doesn’t do anything and, still, she looks fabulous.