… still surgery! One thing my husband got out of medical school was the ability to explain in graphic detail what can go wrong in even the simplest surgical procedures, and the conviction that you only undergo surgery when you have absolutely no choice.
… undetectable, though I’ve seen very few examples of that. Still, there is hope. In my job at Vogue, I am often dispatched to interview plastic surgeons (who always look at me a tad too hungrily for my taste). Anyway, I have come across at least two, Dr. Haideh Hirmand and Dr. David Rosenberg, who I might well trust with my face, or at least part of it, as the new trend, which I’m chronicling for the August issue, is on "tiny tweaks" that extend, believe it or not, to "nose lifts."
Good cosmetic surgery is really a good plan: small nips starting relatively young thoughtfully plotted so that it is like nothing ever happened. Or it is a “To hell with it! I’m 50, I want a new neck” and whatever else is reptilian and you tell everybody about it for a week and then you and everybody else forget all about it because it is so boringly common. And who wants to talk about your neck when the world has so many real troubles to do something about. I do know people who only do fillers and truly believe that’s enough when they look in the mirror — so if it’s enough for them, I don’t care.
Lasers and serious peels handled well give you the feeling a miracle has happened and it is said they turn back cancers one might be facing.
At the moment I am impressed with the new anti-redness creams that work at least for a little while.
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Frenchie….so today we are “French Heart”. Good grief woman - do you spend your day thinking of new names.
But, more is the question…what the heck did all of your spouting above have to do with the subject of “Cosmetic Surgery”?
I saw Joan Rivers on the street in NYC- she scared both me and my husband. She looked like she was wearing one of those cheap halloween masks we wore as kids that came in the box with the costume. But what a great sense of humor Ms. Rivers has to make that commercial about “not being able to tell if she is smiling” and “she can’t feel her face”. So funny! and we both respect her so much for her honesty and humor.
COMEONYOUGUYSES … I can’t live with these answers …
I was hoping you might say … cosmetic surgery sucks. I was hoping you would say that on account I can’t afford it. LOL!
The question is why do we do it?
UHOH …. Lizas got splainin’ to do.
I should have said that I am confused (as usual). I should have said I was hoping that you guys would say “cosmetic surgery is stupid”.
Can I tell you why I was hoping that you might say it is “stupid” … I was hoping that a person can be beautiful with out lipstick and peels.
Don’t get me wrong … I want it … I WANTIT …. I REALLYWANTIT.
Why do I want it? I wanna’ be pretty. I wanna’ be nice to look at. My worry is that some might put the pretty before the beautiful mind. And for me, that line of thinking is a death sentence.
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Good cosmetic surgery is really a good plan: small nips starting relatively young thoughtfully plotted so that it is like nothing ever happened. Or it is a “To hell with it! I’m 50, I want a new neck” and whatever else is reptilian and you tell everybody about it for a week and then you and everybody else forget all about it because it is so boringly common. And who wants to talk about your neck when the world has so many real troubles to do something about. I do know people who only do fillers and truly believe that’s enough when they look in the mirror — so if it’s enough for them, I don’t care.
Lasers and serious peels handled well give you the feeling a miracle has happened and it is said they turn back cancers one might be facing.
At the moment I am impressed with the new anti-redness creams that work at least for a little while.