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Botox and Fillers and How Vanity Affects the Economy

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  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    wageslave wrote: »
    Botox wears off. Even if they fu ck it up, it wears off.

    Make sure you know what the side effects are first...


    Personally, my view is that a lot of people who go a step further than botox tend to end up looking like the bride of godzilla... and, I really don't think botox works that well, because you can always see wrinkles where the person didn't botox...

    That said you asked about if people think it is cheating. My thought is that if you aren't cheating you aren't playing.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • wigglebeena
    wigglebeena Posts: 1,988 Forumite
    What PN said, pretty much. Although I eat a good diet because I care about my health if not my appearance. (I also like veg, especially home-made soup). And red wine is health food, whatever the Daily Mail is saying this week...

    Also identify with the misdirected efforts at looking better. If I try to apply eyeliner I just wind up looking like Vince Noir/Edward Scissorhands, never have got the knack of all the girly stuff so what's the point.
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    Malcolm. wrote: »
    And a healthy diet. Lot of Red&Blueberries, full of anthocyanins. Yum. :)

    There is no peer-reviewed scientific evidence that diet plays a role in maintaining elasticity of skin :)
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
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    My nan lived a life of not having the money to eat healthily, being work worn through having 9 children and working in a rubber factory (oh what fun she had there!) and yet at the age of 90, she had not a wrinkle on her face...she looked 60 at most.

    My mum at the age of nearly 68 could pass for a woman of 20 years younger....I keep being told I don't look my 40 years (no wrinkles, not even around the eyes).

    None of us have/had a face care routine (nan would put nivea on but not every night or even every week!)...the closest I get is splashing plain cold water on my face.

    Things we have/had in common though is the rare putting on of make up, about once a week for me between March and end of October and then hardly ever between November and the middle of March and the fact that we all carry/carried a little extra weight which has the effect of naturally plumping things out anyway!

    Mind you, when I got down to goal weight, I looked so much younger...but then I was younger than I am now and the effect of the excess weight back then was to make me look older.

    As to botox/surgery.....I wouldn't have the guts.
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Malcolm.
    Malcolm. Posts: 1,079 Forumite
    edited 10 July 2010 at 11:30AM
    I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.

    If anyone finds out what that is, please let me know. :)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    However that doesn't mean we should give up either. I'd add drinking to NDG's list - ok in moderation, but women who drink a lot often look terrible as they get older. We could all exercise more. I've been much healthier since I've started working in a job where I don't sit down all day.

    Personally I swear by hair dye, Advanced Night Repair, little sun and doing facial exercises.

    Drinking and exercise - good ones.

    I'm playing netball twice a week at the moment, and I feel fitter, it's great. Mind you, for the hour or so afterwards I look pretty awful, red faced, sweaty hair, etc!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Personally I swear by hair dye, Advanced Night Repair, little sun and doing facial exercises.

    Doesn't hair dye dry and split your hair, though?

    One of the advantages of being fair-haired is that you don't go grey. My mother has some silver hairs now, but it just makes her look lighter blonde, not older.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    SingleSue wrote: »
    and the fact that we all carry/carried a little extra weight which has the effect of naturally plumping things out anyway!


    My Granny used to say that after 50 you have to choose between your bottom and your face.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • luvpump
    luvpump Posts: 1,621 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    My Granny used to say that after 50 you have to choose between your bottom and your face.
    Wow :eek: Never thought ide would see the day !!! Welcome back :)
  • wigglebeena
    wigglebeena Posts: 1,988 Forumite
    Malcolm. wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.

    If anyone finds out what that is, please let me know. :)

    Who let Zoolander in? Has he got a new look?
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