I was waiting while my car was being serviced, and noticed a Vogue magazine among others, picked it up and found a very interesting article about plastic surgery. More and more women are having "preventative" procedures in their 20s and 30s, and are ending up all looking the same, with "'unusual-looking anthropomorphic features' to something out of Village of the Damned." This phenomena is known as the Space Age Face. The author writes that she's sitting at a restaurant in West Hollywood and sees "versions of that face. You know the one: the frightened-deer forehead, the trouty pout, the helium cheeks filled to bursting."
Thanks to the internet, I found this article online for you to read: http://www.laserskinsurgery.com/f/2012_Aug_Vogue.pdf
How can women think that this actually looks good? It not only looks unnatural, but it actually makes women look OLDER, in my opinion. Look at Lindsay Lohan in her latest court appearance. She looked so unnatural, so plumped up (I could actually tell where she was freshly injected), she actually looked like she was pushing 40, not 26 as she is! There was even a discussion a few weeks ago here on this site about when The Doctors had a show on Aging with Beauty, and the celebs on the show were all overdone with plastic surgery procedures!
I'm 38 and do not plan on having any work done on my face--unless when I'm much, much older, if I look angry or tired all the time when I'm actually happy and energized! For full disclosure, I do have breast implants that I got at the age of 25 after I got out of the Army. I have regrets about it and wish I didn't get them, although they are proportionate to my size and I look feminine now...I looked like a teenage boy before! I have upper back pain and always have to wear a bra, when I didn't before.
I have large pores--genetically, I have acne scars on my cheeks, and thanks to my mom I have bags under my eyes, so I have to be careful about sodium and sleep, and I have somewhat pronounced nasolabial lines (those are the lines you see more pronounced when you smile. except mine are there when I'm not smiling...look at Beyonce now, she's got the same thing). But I've come to terms with all of those "imperfections." Luckily, I don't have any wrinkles (good genes, sunscreen, etc), I have great medium to full lips, and I have a beautiful smile. I look horrendous and hideous in flourescent lighting (who doesn't?), and I'm a bombshell in dimmer, warm-tone lighting. I'm confident and happy and feel good about who I am...THAT'S true beauty.
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Don't do weird things to your face, your body and your hair. Because everyone else did, too, and no one can tell them apart.
Jodie Foster, giving advice to Hollywood's new arrivals.
I feel that, with a few exceptions, people always look like they've had surgery; they don't look younger. I'm 51, and no matter what I do to my face, I'm still going to be 51...Age is about life span, about the journey we take. It gets back to narrative: You have to be where you are in your story and enjoy it for what it is."
Julianne Moore, who hasn't had plastic surgery and doesn't plan to.
Great post! I have never had anything cosmetic done on myself anywhere, and don't plan on it. The only exception is that I have big scars from having boils on my entire face years ago. If I did anything I'd get the biggest scar looking like it was never there. But at the moment don't plan on it.
And yes ... I hate that fluorescent light! I look terrible too!
Melissa.
GreenFish- I had to post a separate blog; my response to this one of yours was too long!!!
I had mentioned that there was a discussion a few weeks ago, I found it and it was acutally a couple months ago...here's the link to anyone who wants to read up on that conversation...Hollywood Beauties http://thedoctorstv.com/nvlewis/posts/15392-hollywood-beauties
Melissa, thanks! I too would possibly look into scar removal in the future for my acne scars IF and WHEN I have the money for the procedure(s)! Right now, money's tight, so the scars will have to wait, indefinitely! But at least we have no intentions of making ourselves look cookie-cutter with the same unnatural features as those who partake in the Space Age Face phenomena! WE WANT TO LOOK UNIQUE! DIFFERENT! LIKE AN INDIVIDUAL! SPECIAL!
Lucylamb, I will read your separate blog now and reply on it!
Just wanted to add real quick, I watch Sanjay Gupta on Saturdays and a few weeks ago he had this girl who was teased for her ears that stuck out. She was nine. Eventually, as a young teen, she got not only her ears pinned back, but the plastic surgeon also had to do her nose, chin, etc, to "balance out her features" due to the ears being pinned back. SUCH A SHAME! She was UNIQUE, CUTE, and had an ORIGINAL LOOK. Afterwards, she looked "pretty" I suppose, but TYPICAL! It saddens me that she couldn't embrace her uniqueness and felt pressure from bullying to get plastic surgery as a child. Here's the clip I found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BdL9GEbplo
I just watched the you tube video about the young girl who got (free) plastic surgery! Wow ... it's hard to believe that kids have this done so much there is even a foundation set up for it.
Melissa.
I know! Right? Why not have a foundation that teaches those who are bullied that they are beautiful, unique, smart, funny, and original and to forget whatever the bully says to you? A foundation that empowers them and gives them self-esteem.
Anyway, to everyone, here's a quick link to a continuation of the conversation by me and lucylamb27: http://www.thedoctorstv.com/lucylamb27/posts/15725-More-thoughts-re-plastic-surgery#newest_comment
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