If you were a TV host with a huge gig on the horizon — the ding dang Olympics — you might make an appointment to get a little freshen up with the cosmetic surgeon. Who could blame you? You want to look your best when the whole world is watching. But what if something went wrong and your eyes got red and your vision got …
Did you ever wonder how much Nicki Minaj paid for that ass? Or what Kim Kardashian's face costs her? What is the maintenance fee for Real Housewives? Here, we have an entire catalog of price points on every cosmetic procedure you've ever heard of (and some you haven't).
In accordance with her 50th birthday on Friday, Michelle Obama spoke with People magazine about her workout routine, eating right and those pesky things that crop up on your face as you age that we call wrinkles but cosmetic companies call lines.
Not too long ago, a local chamber of commerce in New Jersey held a networking event. The mixer was purely business-focused, all meeting and greeting and wheeling and dealing. Business cards were swapped, email addresses were exchanged. But one guy was looking to make a different kind of deal.
Botox has been on its quest to eradicate all signs of age from every rich person's face on the planet for about six years now. On the way, it's made a ton of A-list friends and frenemies — people love the stuff, even though it's made out of purified botulinum toxin and is widely known for its tendency to keep those who …
Uh-oh: The FDA has just made public a letter it sent to more than 350 medical practices last month, informing them that they may have received some bum Botox.
New research suggests that Botox isn't just good for paralyzing the facial muscles that allow humans to communicate unspeakable emotions and bridge the fathomless chasms that exist between ultimately forsaken individuals bound together in the loose and unsatisfying confederacy we call "society" — it may help patients…
Remember how youthful and exuberant Gordon Gekko seemed in Wall Street when he was trying to siphon large piles of money from hard-working American hero Carl Fox? All that evil money necromancy can't be good for one's worry lines, which is why it's so surprising that Gekko didn't look like the haggard, woebegone, Wall…
Young women are injecting themselves with Botox before their baby fat is fully gone. And It's not just celebrities that feel pressure to preemptively prepare for wrinkles, ABC reports: Botox usage is up 10 percent among 20 to 29-year-olds in the past year. Thermage — a "hot radio frequency treatment" (what??) that is…
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A new study says Botox may make people see you as less attractive — and not just because it can create new wrinkles in odd places. University of Toronto researchers asked people how they view women who use various anti-aging techniques, including skin creams, facelifts, and injectables. They found that compared to…
Profits for Botox manufacturer Allergan were up 16% percent in the last quarter, thanks in part to sales of the muscle-paralyzing injectionable. But the company isn't content to simply eliminate wrinkles (or rather, create wrinkles in strange new locations). Allergan is hoping that later this year, Botox will be…
Scientists have developed a method of testing Botox on cells in a petri dish rather than live animals. And this could be part of a larger move away from animal testing.
Australian scientists are testing an unusual treatment for especially severe asthma: a shot of Botox right to the throat.
Good news: Sheena Upton is taking parenting classes.
Because Botox was getting super tired, now there's Dysport — the "botulinum toxin product that outperformed Botox in a head-to-head trial against facial wrinkles." Needles in competition! Thrilling.
More details emerge from the "Botox Mom" story this morning, if only because Good Morning America doesn't want to admit they'd been duped. Now, ABC is refusing to pay the British agency they bought the story from, and followed up with their sources who suggest this unsettling story absolutely is real.
The outrage expressed at the story of a mother who injects botox into her young daughter's face was felt across the entire country, and today Good Morning America reports that San Franciso's Child Welfare Services are now involved. We sincerely hope this means a botox-filled needle won't be touching young Brittany's…
We've already read that Botox may dull people's emotions. Now it turns out the popular face-freezer may hamper users' ability to judge how others are feeling.
