L.A. and New York have them, so why not Washington? Call them Botox Cafes, Botox Express, or Botox Boutiques. MTV-featured plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki has redefined the definition of “running errands” with the opening of Luxxery Express, a Botox® Boutique that will serve as a quick fix lunch-hour cosmetic clinic. Located at 2141 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, D.C, Luxxery will serve as the first walk-in botox boutique in the Washington D.C. area. The boutique is perfect to service DC’s on-the-go, beauty driven community. Patients can walk in with no appointment and have a board certified plastic surgeon administer botox injections, Juvederm, Restylane or any other fillers/injectables.

Botox party at D.C.'s LuxxeryExpress: From 'Boytox' to 'Blowtox'

Last night, D.C.'s first walk-in Botox clinic opened its doors to the wrinkled. Dr. Ayman Hakki, the cosmetic surgeon behind Glover Park's new Luxxery Express Botox Boutique, aims to inject the popular muscle-freezing protein into area faces without the hassle of a doctor's appointment. After all, hassle leads to frowns. Frowns cause wrinkles. And wrinkles require Botox.

Perhaps it was the heavily-trafficked open Champagne bar; perhaps it was the carefully blocked nerve impulses. For whatever reason, few frown lines were on display at Luxxery's grand opening fete yesterday evening. "Everybody's in a good mood here tonight," Hakki's 81-year-old mother, Maha, told me. "It's the idea of plastic surgery. It makes people happy."

BROTOX.

"I'm 56 years old. I'm a child of the '50s, baby," says Hiba Bittar, Luxxery's chief operating officer and Hakki's wife of 33 years. Bittar, playing hostess tonight in a tight floral dress, looks neither young nor old. She agrees to give me a tour of Hakki's work.

"Obviously, at 56, I wouldn't have these breasts. I have breast implants and the whole world knows it," she says, clutching a Piper-Heidsieck Champagne cocktail in one hand. Bittar sweeps her free hand over her face. "And I do all the typical fillers and fat transfers that you need to do to look like I do."

And her husband performs it all for her. "Oh, he's operated on every family member of mine and his," Bittar says. "Our son, nieces, brothers, brothers' wives. His mom." Call it "Brotox."

Hakki's mother, Maha, received a face-lift from her son at age 55. Now 81, Maha doesn't do Botox. "I'm OK! I'm fine! I don't need it!" she tells me.

She gets a different kind of benefit out of Hakki's cosmetic treatments. "I have the in-law suite," she tells me. "Bedroom, bathroom, sitting room, living room, everything. I've got my own car. I drive places." And she gets invited to the parties.

BOYTOX.

"Botox knows no age, no gender," Bittar tells me. In fact, Luxxery's first male client walked in just the other day. Bittar estimates that 20 percent of Luxxery's Botox recipients are male, but that most of them "wouldn't want you to know they were in here."

Bittar has got a plan to change that. "I'm going to call it 'Boytox,'" she tells me. "Men shouldn't have to feel weird about doing what they need to do to take care of themselves."

The men in attendance are split on "Boytox."

"No," offers Pierre Rahal, 55.

"Possibly," Don Silvey, 41, says. "It's all about marketing. Why do you think they created Vaseline For Men?"

On a scale of 10 to negative 10, Christien Oliver, 26, rates his interest in Botox a negative 10. If Botox were "Boytox," "I'd still not be inclined," Oliver says. "I guess it might move me to a -9.5"

Timur Tugberk, who rolls into Luxxery in a V-neck t-shirt, blond-dyed mohawk, and sparkly gold slippers, is one of the District's elusive male Botox users. "Love it," says Tugberk, 26. "Necessary."

Tugberk's thoughts on "Boytox"? "That's cute. I mean, it sounds really gay," says Tugberk, who is gay. "But that's OK, gay boys need it too."

What about "Brotox"? "So lame," Tugberk says. "I'm not a bro, I'm a ho. They should call it 'Hotox.' They should call it 'Blowtox.' Now that's a party I'd go to."

BOOZETOX.

Half of the attendees at Luxxery's opening are members of the press. A few are friends of Bittar's from her yoga class at SomaFit. And some are just here for the Peacock Cafe passed radish-and-seawood lettuce wraps, the free samples of Luxxery's private label skin care line, and the open bar.

In the corner of Hakki's clinic, three friends huddle near the gift bags, clutching drinks. They're not here to assess their periorbital lines; they just heard of the party through local business resource Bisnow. One of the guys introduces friend Mary Carrick to me as "a former supermodel. Back in the Stone Age, before you were born." She models "underthings," he tells me. "And shoes."

Carrick denies she models anything. "I'm five-four-and-a-half," Carrick, 44, says. In fact, she says, "I don't really do anything right now." I ask her if an interest in cosmetic surgery brought her out tonight. "Not surgery. I haven't really talked to anyone here," Carrick says. "It's a party. I like to see who's up."

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One of our great clients commented on RealSelf.com about a visit to our Waldorf office! Thanks Marvelous Mary!

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“I Paid $350 in Waldorf, Maryland with Dr. H's Office”  

"I had my peel in March 2010 and my skin was horrible before, no acne present but lots of acne scarring, dark spots from previous acne and I would not go out to the mailbox without foundation or allow my husband to see me without it, I even slept with it because I was ashamed of anyone seeing me - I am a beautiful woman but those scars actually made me look like I was ugly.

Days after I had my peel and my skin actually started peeling, I could go without makeup - it was so liberating. Go to my page on Facebook - Maria Smith (Marvelous Maria) and check me out. I'm going to get another one real soon. I don't understand these posts about the peels not being worth it, nothing these days costs what it's really worth anyway but I wonder if they would be saying the same thing if it was $50 - they would probably say it was fantastic then. Bottom line is that most people want something but don't want to pay for it. You skin is the first thing that people see when they see you so I think that improving it is worth it whatever the cost. But as with everything else, everything is not for everyone. Good luck."

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Good news for all of the politicians in the market for a quick nip and tuck, and the rest of us, too.

Fresh out of face spackle? Next time you're running around Georgetown, you can pop by D.C.'s first ever walk-in Botox clinic for a quick plump and fill 'er up.

Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki opened Luxxery Express on 2141 Wisconsin Ave., NW this summer and told Yeas & Nays, "this is more of a 'in and out' boutique service where Botox, Radiesse, Juvederm and even fat transfers are done on a routine basis."

The Georgetown clinic is an extension of Hakki's main practice in Waldorf, Md. He said the walk-in concept is very popular among his patients.

"My average patient comes in at 12 p.m. and leaves the office at 12:30 p.m. without having waited, without having been harmed financially or physically, and with a smile on their face."

But how can you tell they are smiling? Hakki said the only real overkill he's seen is overtightening and overfilling, and that's not on his patients.

He cited Vice President Biden as a good example.

"I love Joe Biden, but if I were his plastic surgeon, I would use a little less Botox on the inside (of his forehead) and a little more on the outside (of his forehead), which is more consistent with his very pleasant personality," he said.