Almost the first time I went out in Los Angeles, the morning after I moved here, I saw my first example of bad plastic surgery. Waiting for the car at the pretty Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, where we'd gone for breakfast, I saw a woman my age who was impossibly thin and blond. Her face was weirdly shaped, her lips bloated and her cheekbones golfball-sized. She was wearing pink designer sweatpants that showed off a pert little behind. She was also sporting enormous breast implants that stuck out bizarrely in front of her hipless body.
A huge percentage of older women in this part of Los Angeles have had "something done." Once when I was visiting the dermatologist (I had bronchitis and had coughed so hard that little red spots appeared all over my eyelids), a well-dressed woman came in looking frantic. The dermatologist rushed her into a private room and the nurse apologized to me for making me wait. Something had gone wrong with the lady's botox!
Once in a while I look in the mirror and practice pulling my face in the exact right way for every small wrinkle to vanish. Suddenly I look ten years younger. It's so tempting, if you could do it exactly right. But this website is a good dissuasive.
You're not really fooling anyone. You're still old.
I know that there are some wonderful surgeons out there and if it bothers anyone to have wrinkles etc, then go for it. Personally I have reached an age where I am sometimes surprised to see that older woman where that young girl used to be. My consolation is that I am in good health and my husband thinks I'm beautiful. So far that is enough for me.
I like reading your blog. I'm glad you didn't give it up!!
Posted by: nancy | 07 May 2008 at 11:45
It doesn't really bother me-- I think I look pretty good for my age! But it's hard comparing yourself to movie stars in the neighborhood!
As a beauty I'm not a great star
There are others more handsome by far
My face I don't mind it
because I'm behind it
It's the folks out if front that I jar
Posted by: Sedulia | 07 May 2008 at 19:01
If others can see the work, it's indeed bad cosmetic surgery. If others just think, "wow, doesn't she look lovely", THAT's what you want to pay for!
Posted by: jadie | 08 May 2008 at 05:11