Botox and Fillers and How Vanity Affects the Economy

wageslave

Since I am actually female and wear dresses (wageslave<---waves at whitehorse) I feel I am entitled to post this, sort of:)

I probably spend more than a sensible person earns on clothes and shoes and bags and make-up... Oh, you get the idea.

I like stuff.

Nothing else suffers, the bills get paid. I work hard and it is my disposable income to waste as I see fit.

I lived on fresh air for bliddy years and now I don't. I wont apologise for that.

I am getting older, my thirties are becoming a fond memory and forty something suddenly doesn't seem that ancient. The problem is, I am starting to look it. More lines than British Rail.

I can and do batter my body into submission, my face is outwith my control.

I could stop buying shoes for a couple of months and do botox. How many pairs of fu cking shoes does one woman need? And then there is fillers.

Is it worth it? I am not out to catch a man or any other disease, I am just seriously vain.

It is really hard to get older when you have always been pretty.

So whats the verdict?

Give up and start wearing Jacque Vert or fight the dying of the light?

treliac

Fight it, but botox sounds scary. Check out what your're using lest you end up making things worse, I'd say.

wageslave

treliac wrote: »

Fight it, but botox sounds scary. Check out what your're using lest you end up making things worse, I'd say.

Botox is all that is left, either that or a facelift and that is really scarey. I am not quite ready to go that length yet.

Ask me again in five years.

A couple of years ago I would have been horrified by the idea of doing anything to my face but I look in the mirror now and see a stranger looking back. i know I shouldn't care but I really, seriously do.

Botox wears off. Even if they fu ck it up, it wears off.

And if I go ahead, I wont go to someone even vaguelly likely to !!!! it up.

No ethical objections?

Strangely enough, I have ethical objections

treliac

wageslave wrote: »

Strangely enough, I have ethical objections

On what basis?

wageslave

treliac wrote: »

On what basis?

I think we should accept what nature has provided.

Right up until it affected me, I felt people should grow old gracefully.

I still do.

Just not me. I am speshul:cool:

Doozergirl

Do it. Hold off on the shoes. If it makes you feel great, do it again.

If it doesn't, buy some more shoes.

We're talking about disposable income, it's going to get spent anyway?!

misskool

I have a friend who's just started a business doing facial stuff. She's a qualified medic and is doing it to pay off her university debts. I can PM you some info?

treliac

wageslave wrote: »

I think we should accept what nature has provided.

Right up until it affected me, I felt people should grow old gracefully.

I still do.

Just not me. I am speshul:cool:

Oh, I see. No.... we don't frown on people who dye their hair or paint their nails or wear make up. I can't see the difference really... only insofar as it might cause jealousy in people who can't afford it.

wageslave

Misskool, I am in Scotland so likely your friend is too far away for it to be practical.

So no one has any real objections to going the Simon Cowell route?

I was going to type that it was cheating but, given the fact I have been dying my hair since I was fifteen, that's plain silly.

What about actual surgery?

Be honest here, where do we draw the line?

Or do we just skip over it?

What is so wrong with just looking your age?

This is new territory for me and TBH this isn't something I ever thought I contemplate.

wigglebeena

I want people to carry on spending on items of ludicrous vanity and dubious value.

a) It enables me to carry on feeling massively superior. (The last ten items of clothing I bought were off the pound rail at Help The Aged).
b) If I ever have any money for savings or investments I want you lot propping up the economy to ensure I get a good rate of return.

Ladies, get out there and get shopping!

wageslave

wigglebeena wrote: »

Ladies, get out there and get shopping!

Trust me, I am doing my bit.

The more disposable income I have the more clothes I find I can't live without.

Not so long ago my idea of luxury was shampoo with a name I actually recognised on the label.

The woman beside you on the charity shop sale rail, I was that soldier........