I'm 36 and I'm starting to notice a divide in my friends. They've either decided to start with the plumpers, fillers, and procedures or they have stopped dyeing their hair and are gaining a few lbs. I think that the 2nd group look better in the long run-all the 1st group look to me is "done" not younger.
That said, I'm not anti-plastic surgery; if I had a spare ten grand I'd have a breast lift/reduction in a heartbeat. I guess I don't want anything that has to do with altering my face-I'm afraid that something will get messed up. I'm also afraid of procedures that add something. Fake boobs, chin/cheek implants, those scary ass barbed wires that pull your muscles up like a facelift. Shudder. Taking things away like lipo or a nose job I understand.
Plastic surgery is both absolutely terrifying and completely understandable to me.
I can see why, if you have the money, you would want to just... "fix" those little things you don't like. Get the tip of your nose moves. Get breast implants, cheek implants or laser hair removal or whatever, because you feel more beautiful.
But isn't it addicting? I mean, I'm sure there are lots of people that get just the one surgery and are fine, but it seems like there are always people who just do more and more and more. I realize the media paints it this way, but I can totally understand how it would become addicting.
But at the same time, as a crunchy hippie, it makes me sad and a little disgusted. Why do people feel the need to alter their bodies so much? Don't they feel... strange? Having non-organic parts inside of them? I mean, I feel the same way about people who get other surgeries, like my grandmother's hip. I know she feels bizarre having a hip that isn't hers, and I would, too. Does that happen to people who have lots of implants? I have no idea.
It's just sad that there's so much pressure to be beautiful on the outside, and not so much pressure to be genuinely beautiful on the inside. Do-gooders seem to give free makeovers and fashion tips instead of doing work that will benefit the people in actual need (oh, I have had some choice comments on my clothes, and heard so many self-righteous people brag about how they "help the less fortunate" by donating their brand-name bags to thrift stores and give good fashion advice). It seems like helping others is only to look good. And you can't care too much.
Not to say that fashion advice has no place - for example, your friend always wears inappropriate outfits to job interviews. I think a little tactfully-worded advice is helping out. But strangers on the street? No thank you.
As someone with really bad feet, where any amount of prolonged pressure, even in flats, causes pain in the balls of my feet , I have been considering the injection route.
As a needlephobic, however, I choose gel inserts. Cheaper for sure.
@MmSM: You're right, these people are perfect for Intervention. I'd love to see them stuck in a 12-Step rehab being forced to admit they're powerless over botox and their faces have become unmanageable.
There aren't nearly the amount of boob jobs in North County that these people claim. If you see a set of fake boobs, you can pretty much guarantee they're on women visiting from LA :)
Um, I think the blond, possibly gay guy seems kind of with it. He basically said plastic surgery makes him feel good on the inside and if you aren't happy on the inside no one will date you. Which is kind of weird but kind of true (being pretty on the inside) and for some reason he seems pretty balanced to me.
@kkatt: What he's saying is that he hates how he looks and cannot be happy and no one will date him unless he looks better. That's not balanced, it's really, really sad. I say this because once upon a time I had the nose I'd hated since forever done over. The 'happy on the inside' effect ran out about the same time as the pain medication.
When I went to San Diego, I spent all of my time in Ocean Beach except for an hour when we went to see the seals at La Jolla. I didn't notice big boobs bolted onto every woman.
@dummyfakeroller: Is that what they say? No, La Jolla is not home to many boob jobs. Piles of money, yes, fake boobs, not so much. SD in general, actually. At least, it's nowhere near LA.
"If you don't feel beautiful on the outside, then you won't feel beautiful on the inside and no one will date you."
Oh, honey, I think you have that backwards. And let's face, all the plastic surgery in the world won't stop time, gravity, or any of those other little things that make it more important to like the person you are than the person in the mirror.
@RustyHeadedGirl is back in Miami!: Word. I know there are some really gifted plastic surgeons out there, but too many times, people who get work done to look younger, don't look younger as much as they look like they have had work done. I wish we could stop putting so much emphasis on staying young and appreciate how our bodies change over time. Wrinkles are beautiful, too! But to each their own.
@Penny: I dunno... I think it's weird that a show called "addicted to beauty" features really frightning looking people.
The poster for this show on the subway platforms is terrifying.
@Penny: I think they meant that no one looks good in the sense of not coming off as healthy, decent, smart, whatever, not in the physical sense of looking good. But yeah, really poor choice of words.
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That said, I'm not anti-plastic surgery; if I had a spare ten grand I'd have a breast lift/reduction in a heartbeat. I guess I don't want anything that has to do with altering my face-I'm afraid that something will get messed up. I'm also afraid of procedures that add something. Fake boobs, chin/cheek implants, those scary ass barbed wires that pull your muscles up like a facelift. Shudder. Taking things away like lipo or a nose job I understand.
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I can see why, if you have the money, you would want to just... "fix" those little things you don't like. Get the tip of your nose moves. Get breast implants, cheek implants or laser hair removal or whatever, because you feel more beautiful.
But isn't it addicting? I mean, I'm sure there are lots of people that get just the one surgery and are fine, but it seems like there are always people who just do more and more and more. I realize the media paints it this way, but I can totally understand how it would become addicting.
But at the same time, as a crunchy hippie, it makes me sad and a little disgusted. Why do people feel the need to alter their bodies so much? Don't they feel... strange? Having non-organic parts inside of them? I mean, I feel the same way about people who get other surgeries, like my grandmother's hip. I know she feels bizarre having a hip that isn't hers, and I would, too. Does that happen to people who have lots of implants? I have no idea.
It's just sad that there's so much pressure to be beautiful on the outside, and not so much pressure to be genuinely beautiful on the inside. Do-gooders seem to give free makeovers and fashion tips instead of doing work that will benefit the people in actual need (oh, I have had some choice comments on my clothes, and heard so many self-righteous people brag about how they "help the less fortunate" by donating their brand-name bags to thrift stores and give good fashion advice). It seems like helping others is only to look good. And you can't care too much.
Not to say that fashion advice has no place - for example, your friend always wears inappropriate outfits to job interviews. I think a little tactfully-worded advice is helping out. But strangers on the street? No thank you.
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To quote RuPaul, "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love someone else?"
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Oh, honey, I think you have that backwards. And let's face, all the plastic surgery in the world won't stop time, gravity, or any of those other little things that make it more important to like the person you are than the person in the mirror.
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The poster for this show on the subway platforms is terrifying.
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