Thursday, January 31, 2008

Why Isn't Her Face Moving?

With cosmetic surgery and botox becoming so popular there's a new kind of older beauty out there in the world. She definitely doesn't look her age... but she doesn't look younger either. She kind of looks like she's made of plastic. Everyone used to make fun of Joan Rivers for looking like she's had cosmetic surgery, but now it seems like people are trying to emulate that look. Better to look like plastic than to have a few wrinkles and look old. I wonder if this is a trend that is here to stay or is it like the tanning salon? At one time that orange glow just couldn't be beat, but then it went out of style for health reasons and now it's been replaced by spray on tans. Will there be pockets of commununities where all the women (and maybe men) use botox and try to stay young or will everyone eventually adopt easy forms of cosmetic surgery?

And what about men? There was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: More men turning to implants for chests of gold. It seems pretty dramatic for a man to get a pec-job. But they are doing it.

Could it be when you go into the old age home 20-30-40 years from now that there is a subset of people who look oddly young? And what does happen to a boob-job or a pec-job when old age does take over and the body sags around the implants?

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