I have to agree with the good ol’ docs at Profiles here: fillers, Botox, etc. are not plastic surgery. I often get into these discussions with friends, who pick up an issue of Star and gasp, “I can’t believe Jessica Simpson–” or fill in the name of your celebrity of choice “–keeps having plastic surgery!” while pointing to newly plumped lips or an unlined and shiny forehead. Plastic surgery involves anesthesia and knives–not needles. Of course, just because it’s not real surgery doesn’t mean real complications can’t occur, and anybody considering any sort of procedure should only go to a licensed, skilled specialist (no Botox-injecting dentists, please!). For me, though, there are a zillion degrees of separation between ten minutes of needle pricking–vain and unnecessary though it may be–and a two-hour long surgical procedure requiring an anesthesiologist, scrub tech, recovery room, overnight nurse, follow-up visit the next day, pain medication for a week…you get the point.
In other news: Lisa Rinna, please, STOP IT. You don’t look younger, you just look like you’ve had work done. It would be easier to swallow the message that growing older is a beautiful thing if every woman in Hollywood (and, increasingly, in the “real world”, too) didn’t treat facial aging as akin to death. Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus and other teenage fetuses should not be the standard by which we judge beauty, and I wish the magazines, media and skincare brands would stop shoving them down our throats as if they have anything to teach us about beauty, because they do not.
Wow. I’m angry today. Rant over! Kisses!
I have to agree with the good ol’ docs at Profiles here: fillers, Botox, etc. are not plastic surgery. I often get into these discussions with friends, who pick up an issue of Star and gasp, “I can’t believe Jessica Simpson–” or fill in the name of your celebrity of choice “–keeps having plastic surgery!” while pointing to newly plumped lips or an unlined and shiny forehead. Plastic surgery involves anesthesia and knives–not needles. Of course, just because it’s not real surgery doesn’t mean real complications can’t occur, and anybody considering any sort of procedure should only go to a licensed, skilled specialist (no Botox-injecting dentists, please!). For me, though, there are a zillion degrees of separation between ten minutes of needle pricking–vain and unnecessary though it may be–and a two-hour long surgical procedure requiring an anesthesiologist, scrub tech, recovery room, overnight nurse, follow-up visit the next day, pain medication for a week…you get the point.
In other news: Lisa Rinna, please, STOP IT. You don’t look younger, you just look like you’ve had work done. It would be easier to swallow the message that growing older is a beautiful thing if every woman in Hollywood (and, increasingly, in the “real world”, too) didn’t treat facial aging as akin to death. Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus and other teenage fetuses should not be the standard by which we judge beauty, and I wish the magazines, media and skincare brands would stop shoving them down our throats as if they have anything to teach us about beauty, because they do not.
Wow. I’m angry today. Rant over! Kisses!