cosmetic surgery?

[SleepyWitch]

hey guys, I just looked at some pics of celebs who have had cosmetic surgery and have overdone it a bit, so that they look pretty scary now.
would you ever get cosmetic surgery (including botox or liposuction)? I don't mean reconstructive plastic surgery after an accident or when your face is disfigured by a disease. I'm talking about purely cosmetic surgery.
as for me, there's no way I'd ever do it... except maybe if there's a way to magic away spots/pimples. the thought of a surgeon cutting up my face etc makes my flesh crawl! :ice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_surgery#Cosmetic_surgery

[Weisinheimer]

I don't think I'd ever get cosmetic surgery. I think it's a waste of money, and like you said, Sleepy, I wouldn't want to be cut up, or messed with at all. And then there's the risk of something going wrong. I just don't think it's worth it.

[B-Mental]

Well, I think both of you are more than beautiful as you are. I don't understand the urge to change oneself. I can sort of understand entertainers doing it, they are under such external pressure. I don't understand others doing it. The rich do it as a luxury, but I think it makes them look like gargoyles. Gargoyles are freakish to me.

[SleepyWitch]

Well, I think both of you are more than beautiful as you are. I don't understand the urge to change oneself. I can sort of understand entertainers doing it, they are under such external pressure. I don't understand others doing it. The rich do it as a luxury, but I think it makes them look like gargoyles. Gargoyles are freakish to me.

yeah, it's not only the rich though. when I was living in England, I saw a botox parlour in a sort of dodgy neighbourhood. it seems to be spreading to all classes.
this part of town wasn't were the very poor live, but the ppl there certainly looked as if they'd better spend their money on other things than botox. :confused:

[kratsayra]

No cosmetic surgery! Yuck!

I found a website a while ago that, rather than showing cosmetic surgery gone wrong, it showed all these different celebrities who'd had it, as examples of good outcomes. I usually don't pay much attention to that, but it's kind of shocking how most celebrities (female, anyway) seem to have reconstructed at least some part of their face or bodies in order to appear "beautiful." :sick:

http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/

[motherhubbard]

Well, I always mess up my vote somehow. I would get cosmetic surgery if I could afford it. Let me tell you, having four giant kids can really take a toll on the body. I’d love to have everything picked back up and put where it was before kids! It’s been a real blow for me to go from having a dancer’s body to having the body of the little old woman who lived in a shoe. Short of taking up ballet six hours a day I don’t know what else would return me to my former self. Perhaps it’s vanity, but I miss the way my clothes felt and the way my abs looked- not to mention - well, never mind that, I won’t mention.

[SleepyWitch]

No cosmetic surgery! Yuck!

I found a website a while ago that, rather than showing cosmetic surgery gone wrong, it showed all these different celebrities who'd had it, as examples of good outcomes. I usually don't pay much attention to that, but it's kind of shocking how most celebrities (female, anyway) seem to have reconstructed at least some part of their face or bodies in order to appear "beautiful." :sick:

http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/

they didn't look too bad before! plus, I think you can't really compare the "before" and "after" pics because in the "after" pics they've clearly had a lot of professional styling. plus, the "before" pics are older and a bit blurry (as for Uma Thurman in the 1990s: the ghastly 80s hair style makes her look a lot uglier overall, but if she'd had the same hairstyle on that pic as in the 2000 one, she'd look good enough?)
anyway, what's scary is, when I look at those pics, I find myself thinking: yeah, no celebrity should have a nose like this (in the "before" pics) (although I wouldn't mind in 'normal' people. so does this mean we are kinda "brainwashed" and actually expect our dear celebs to have surgery, because we are so used to seeing lifted faces that we have become very intolerant?
FYI, I don't care about celebrities one bit.... so this is even more scary

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Once when I was a lad of... maybe 10 years old, a slightly upset neighbour bolted out his door and gave his son a good old dressing down. I don't think he remembers what it was about but everyone remembers that he forgot to put on his wig....

I decided there and then, that if I had to age (likely) it would be with some sort of dignity. That includes avoiding cosmetic surgery.

Claes

[blp]

Apparently, there's a bit of a trend for celebs to have their surgery undone now. I think Courtney Love said something like, 'I just want my old mouth back.'

All of which is interesting in the light of your very interesting post motherhubbard. Seems you want the surgery for the same reason Love wants the unsurgery - to get back to your former self.

[SleepyWitch]

Well, I always mess up my vote somehow. I would get cosmetic surgery if I could afford it. Let me tell you, having four giant kids can really take a toll on the body. I’d love to have everything picked back up and put where it was before kids! It’s been a real blow for me to go from having a dancer’s body to having the body of the little old woman who lived in a shoe. Short of taking up ballet six hours a day I don’t know what else would return me to my former self. Perhaps it’s vanity, but I miss the way my clothes felt and the way my abs looked- not to mention - well, never mind that, I won’t mention.
..... sagging t.... shirts?
yeah, I must admit the idea of giving birth to more than one giant kid gives me the shivers and maybe if I ever have 4 kids, I'll reconsider cosmetic surgery. brrrrrr, seeing as my bf is 1.93 m and was a real fatso as a baby (although he's skinny now), I think one kid will be enough to knock me out :)

[vheissu]

I can understand why people want to do it and I think if you limit yourself to do something that doesn't look completely fake and there are no complications, then why not?

It's going too far with it that is simply wrong and unnatural.

In fairness though, some cosmetic surgery, or in better terms, corrective surgery, can be helpful for some people who are simply not comfortable with the way a part of their body looks.

[Virgil]

Sleepy, you forgot to mention penis enlargements. :p

Mom-H: the best cosmetic thing you can do for your problem is a good and consistent athletic workout plan. I was starting to accept my body as having reached my forties and that getting flabbier is normal. You saw my blog entry on my workout routine. It has made a real and definite difference. You probably don't need to go as far as I go with working out, but I'm convinced that a little bit regularly performed will go a long way. And you don't need to join a gym either. For those interested, here's a shameless plug for my blog: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blogs/viewblog.php?userid=9515. The entry I'm alluding to is #31.

[manolia]

Hmmmm..i can definately say no to any other cosmetic surgery..but i am not so sure about botox :blush: You can call me vain :lol: :D but at least i am sincere :D

[Virgil]

Goodness, I'm turning grey and for the past year I've been tempted to dye my hair. Now every older (over forty) woman I know dyes her hair. How come you don't consider that a cosmetic choice?

[SleepyWitch]

Goodness, I'm turning grey and for the past year I've been tempted to dye my hair. Now every older (over forty) woman I know dyes her hair. How come you don't consider that a cosmetic choice?

hehe, I've been dying my hair since I was 13.
yeah, you're right, that's a cosmetic choice too, but at least it's relatively cheap, it's reversible, it can't go wrong in any serious, harmful way....
hehe, don't dye your hair, Virge! I think it looks ridiculous in men :)

[Virgil]

hehe, I've been dying my hair since I was 13.

:eek2: Thirteen? Can breast implants be far behind? :p ;)



yeah, you're right, that's a cosmetic choice too, but at least it's relatively cheap, it's reversible, it can't go wrong in any serious, harmful way....
hehe, don't dye your hair, Virge! I think it looks ridiculous in men :)
Yeah, you're right. But I look at some of my younger pictures and I look so much better with my dark hair. Frankly I feel thirty or less right now but i look older. :bawling:

[motherhubbard]

hehe, don't dye your hair, Virge! I think it looks ridiculous in men :)

I think that all of the men’s beauty products are crazy. I don’t like men with dirty fingernails, but I don’t like a manicure on a man either. There is wrinkle cream for men, too. If my husband wanted wrinkle cream I’d die! I think the worst is Rogaine. I like bald heads though. I’ve heard that products like Rogaine have a negative effect on a man’s ability to … stand at attention. What’s the point of a full head of hair if you can’t … perform?

[Virgil]

I think that all of the men’s beauty products are crazy. I don’t like men with dirty fingernails, but I don’t like a manicure on a man either. There is wrinkle cream for men, too. If my husband wanted wrinkle cream I’d die! I think the worst is Rogaine. I like bald heads though. I’ve heard that products like Rogaine have a negative effect on a man’s ability to … stand at attention. What’s the point of a full head of hair if you can’t … perform?

But you can't get the oppostunity to perform without a full head of hair. :lol: Only kidding. Thank God I still have all my hair. That really is a hard thing for a man to go through. I have lots of friends that are balding, and a couple were bald by thier early to mid twenties. Just think of how you're identity goes into shock, one day being a youth, the next being bald. :cold: I'm not sure women realize how hard that is on a man.

[SleepyWitch]

But you can't get the oppostunity to perform without a full head of hair. :lol: Only kidding. Thank God I still have all my hair. That really is a hard thing for a man to go through. I have lots of friends that are balding, and a couple were bald by thier early to mid twenties. Just think of how you're identity goes into shock, one day being a youth, the next being bald. :cold: I'm not sure women realize how hard that is on a man.

tell your friends to shave their heads! what's ugly about 'bald' men is that most of them are only partially bald. It does look ridiculous when they have a kind of... wreath (?) around the lower part of their head and nothing on top. whereas if they shaved what's left really short, it would look better..... (cf. Patrick Stewart :D)

[motherhubbard]

I like any bald! I really do, even the wreath. My husband doesn’t have a hard time with balding at all, but that may be because I like it so much. I rub it and kiss all the time!

[Koa]

Well, I always mess up my vote somehow. I would get cosmetic surgery if I could afford it. Let me tell you, having four giant kids can really take a toll on the body. I’d love to have everything picked back up and put where it was before kids! It’s been a real blow for me to go from having a dancer’s body to having the body of the little old woman who lived in a shoe. Short of taking up ballet six hours a day I don’t know what else would return me to my former self. Perhaps it’s vanity, but I miss the way my clothes felt and the way my abs looked- not to mention - well, never mind that, I won’t mention.

Don't people want too much? If you want to have a dancer's body all your life, don't have kids. It was quite obvious you wouldn't probably be back at having a cute body, especially after 4 kids...


hehe, I've been dying my hair since I was 13.
yeah, you're right, that's a cosmetic choice too, but at least it's relatively cheap, it's reversible, it can't go wrong in any serious, harmful way....
hehe, don't dye your hair, Virge! I think it looks ridiculous in men :)

It does look ridicolous on men, but at the same time if women do it why men shouldn't? Unfortunately :P


hehe, I've been dying my hair since I was 13.


When I was 14 and started high school I was shocked :eek: because one girl had dyed hair. It was very uncommon back then for such young girls, I suppose now it's not. And no I'm not sure it won't give you any problems, I have always heard that it's not healthy for hair... surely no huge deal, but I might imagine by now the only way for you to have nice hair is keeping on dying it and giving it much care...

I used to say I'd never ever dye my hair but I used some cheap dyes 3 or 4 times. But since I'm not into hard work I didn't care and it washed away sooo quickly. (plus my hair is too dark to change its colour without hassle, and I'm not into hassle).

I don't think I'd do surgery, I even refuse to visit doctors for a flu, why should I be cut up unnecessarily. I am starting to consider make-up in order to look my age, but why should I want to look my age when I look early-20s :D

[Virgil]

I was reading an interview with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and he was asked if he would consider botox. He said no. Hahaha, here are some recent photos of Keith. Do you think botox would even help?

http://cyberextazy.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/keithr.jpg


http://www.usounds.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/keithrichards.jpg


http://humormeblog.beloblog.com/archives/richards

[Shalot]

tell your friends to shave their heads! what's ugly about 'bald' men is that most of them are only partially bald. It does look ridiculous when they have a kind of... wreath (?) around the lower part of their head and nothing on top. whereas if they shaved what's left really short, it would look better..... (cf. Patrick Stewart :D)

:lol: I totally agree. Hair wreaths! Gave me a real chuckle. I am seeing more and more men maintain a fully shaved head, and it doesn't look bad. A bald head is better than a combover or hair wreath any day. I am going to have to remember to use the phrase "hair wreath" the next time I see a guy with a partial head of hair like that.

[Virgil]

You mean you don't like this. :p

http://www.costumesofnashua.com/CNWebSite105/Active905/Pages/Wigs/Character/PicsCharacter/LAT8039drphil.jpg

[motherhubbard]

Don't people want too much? If you want to have a dancer's body all your life, don't have kids. It was quite obvious you wouldn't probably be back at having a cute body, especially after 4 kids...



looking forward I thought I'd always be able to slim right down and I had no idea of what the real aftermath of pregnancy was like- it may be obvious to you that things would change, but it was not to me. Of course when i got in that first shower after that first baby I did ask myself what I expected. the truth is I expected to have a six pound baby and leave the hospital with maybe ten extra pounds that breastfeeding would melt away in a couple of days. I would take the kids over the body but I still think I can have it all.

Virgil- those are some great pictures. It makes me think mom is right when she says getting old is hell. Did you know that Botox was included in the list of WMDs unaccounted for?

[kratsayra]

Goodness, I'm turning grey and for the past year I've been tempted to dye my hair. Now every older (over forty) woman I know dyes her hair. How come you don't consider that a cosmetic choice?

It's true - so many women dye their hair - it's more than anyone really realizes or thinks about, I think. And I think if my hair was turning gray I would probably start dying it too.

I don't really have a problem with men coloring their hair at all, either. Whether it is to cover up gray or just for a change. I find that acceptable. Although salt-and-pepper can be quite attractive. It probably depends on the individual man. ;)

We make lots of cosmetic choices every day, but I think it is primarily about reversibility. At least for me it is. My mother had some laser hair removal, and I won't even consider that, as mild as it may seem. You never know when you might want that hair back. Hahaha. :lol:

[sprinks]

I'd never get cosmetic surgery, partially because everyone that matters to me loves me regardless of whether I look "perfect" or not, and also becuase I'm incredibly scared of needles and operations and all!

[SleepyWitch]

When I was 14 and started high school I was shocked :eek: because one girl had dyed hair. It was very uncommon back then for such young girls, I suppose now it's not. And no I'm not sure it won't give you any problems, I have always heard that it's not healthy for hair... surely no huge deal, but I might imagine by now the only way for you to have nice hair is keeping on dying it and giving it much care...

I used to dye it with henna. It's said to be good for your hair. you are right about the chemical stuff, that's a bit more obnoxious but I think it must have gotten a lot better over the last couple of years. The bleach I'm using now does make my hair a bit dry and bushy, but all in all, it doesn't have much of an impact, seeing as my hair is curly and bushy anyway.

[LadyW]

The whole idea of cosmetic surgery has never appealed to me... I just don't like the thought of altering something so natural for a rather shallow purpose. Also, I think my money could go towards something much more useful, and less selfish for that matter.
Not that I condemn any of us that choose to have surgery, it's just my point of view.
But I can't help but laugh at the image of two boob shaped pieces of plastic resting in the soil once a corpse has rotted.

[Pensive]

The whole idea of cosmetic surgery has never appealed to me... I just don't like the thought of altering something so natural for a rather shallow purpose. Also, I think my money could go towards something much more useful, and less selfish for that matter.

I am quite selfish but yes I wouldn't like plastic surgery at all due to aesthetical reasons! And oh yes, I can spend that money on other selfish reasons.


I think that all of the men’s beauty products are crazy.

Personally speaking, women beauty products are not much less crazier. And yes, I am a female.

[Virgil]

Virgil- those are some great pictures. It makes me think mom is right when she says getting old is hell. Did you know that Botox was included in the list of WMDs unaccounted for?
I don't know about WMDs, but botox is a poison. They are actually injecting poison into you (I think more specifically into the local muscle) when they inject botox. I think it's to relax the muslcle by weakening it. It's really a horrible thought and I can't imagine why people would do that. You might as well get a face lift.


But I can't help but laugh at the image of two boob shaped pieces of plastic resting in the soil once a corpse has rotted.

:lol: How funny!

[Lily Adams]

No. Imperfections are beautiful.

[Shalot]

I wouldn't get any cosmetic surgery as I am now, but if something happened to me and I was somehow disfigured, I would probably do it.

Does anyone remember Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing? She got a nose job, and she looked totally different. She had sort of a biggish nose, but on her, it was perfect (I thought). She had a very unique, individual look and she got this drastic change to make herself look like everyone else and I was kind of disappointed. I liked the way she looked before, but then again, she was in entertainment and maybe it was something she felt she had to do. It may not have had anything to do with her career at all. Big, distinctive noses of that sort run in my family also, but someone how I got a normal size nose and I remember thinking when I was little that I hoped I didn't grow up to have a giant nose like that. I got my wish. I still can't say with any certainty that I wouldn't have gotten a nose job if I had inherited the schnoze, despite what I think about Jennifer Grey's nose job.

[naomi moon]

Well I'm a girl too and I will never ever do any cosmetic surgery unless I'm disfigured.
I mean how horrible aging can be :), wrinkles and lines are not that ugly, sometimes beauty is in imperfection, and none can prevent time from doing his job;) .
The whole stuff of injecting Botox or getting your nose,breast or thighs done is meaningless, it's a complete waste of time, money and energy. I guess it just spots light on how ugly it turns out to be.

[Bakiryu]

I love the little imperfections in people, they make us more human. More beautiful.

I don't think I could ever get cosmetic surgery. Even if it would be guaranteed everyone else would like it. I would.

Sex reassignment surgery, is something else. And maybe. But cosmetic surgery? No.

[ben.!]

I'm not sure why celebs do it so much. I mean, a little nip and tuck here and there to fix something, if indeed something was very wrong with the appearance, but I mean all these boob jobs and nose jobs and everything, it's over the top. You are all beautiful, just the way you are. :)

Especially celebs, that's why we love them so much. Covering yourself in plastic cosmetics won't really help you're appearance, just make you look more plastic and fake.

[Koa]

It's true - so many women dye their hair - it's more than anyone really realizes or thinks about, I think. And I think if my hair was turning gray I would probably start dying it too.


:bawling: I have about 5, well-hidden white hairs :bawling: And I've just turned 26 and I have black hair so I do notice (but I have loads of hair so I know how to hide the creepy things) and everybody just tells me 'well dye your hair' and I'm not into commitment so I don't want to be committed to dye... (not to "die" LOL) :bawling:


I used to dye it with henna. It's said to be good for your hair. you are right about the chemical stuff, that's a bit more obnoxious but I think it must have gotten a lot better over the last couple of years. The bleach I'm using now does make my hair a bit dry and bushy, but all in all, it doesn't have much of an impact, seeing as my hair is curly and bushy anyway.

Forgot about henna, yeah it's said to be nice. I used to be really into "natural" but then I did try cheap dye just for the fun of it.



Does anyone remember Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing? She got a nose job, and she looked totally different. She had sort of a biggish nose, but on her, it was perfect (I thought). She had a very unique, individual look and she got this drastic change to make herself look like everyone else and I was kind of disappointed. I liked the way she looked before, but then again, she was in entertainment and maybe it was something she felt she had to do.

I don't remember the nose but the whole of her look was so incredibily irritating... But then thinking about it the whole movie is one of the most irritating things ever produced, so is it her look that influences the movie or the movie that influences the look? :D

I know a girl who had a nose job, the first time I met her (she was a friend of a friend) we were 16 or 17 and she had a big patch on her nose and I thought she had had some accident, didn't ask cos it didn't seem polite, and then I learnt what it was about :eek: That's so weird. She looks like a Barbie doll anyway, not sure how the nose was before but no one who knew her before said it was particularly bad. Eek.

[manolia]

:bawling: I have about 5, well-hidden white hairs :bawling: And I've just turned 26 and I have black hair so I do notice (but I have loads of hair so I know how to hide the creepy things) and everybody just tells me 'well dye your hair' and I'm not into commitment so I don't want to be committed to dye... (not to "die" LOL) :bawling:


:lol: :lol:
Koa excuse my laughing but your post is soooo me. :lol:
I too have black hair (almost) and loads of it and i have more than 5 white hair which i pluck out in front of the mirror and i simply refuse to dye my hair. Not yet ;)

[kratsayra]

:lol: :lol:
Koa excuse my laughing but your post is soooo me. :lol:
I too have black hair (almost) and loads of it and i have more than 5 white hair which i pluck out in front of the mirror and i simply refuse to dye my hair. Not yet ;)

No one believes me cause I otherwise look quite young but I sometimes find white hairs too and pull them out. Not allowed! Although my hair is brown and sometimes blondish, so maybe they don't show up as much anyways.

[Virgil]

If you girls have any white hairs at your age now (and I think all three of you are in your twenties), then you will definitely be grey at a fairly young age. Sorry to bring you the bad news. ;) I'm sure all three of you in ten years will be dying your hair. :p

[Koa]

:lol: :lol:
Koa excuse my laughing but your post is soooo me. :lol:
I too have black hair (almost) and loads of it and i have more than 5 white hair which i pluck out in front of the mirror and i simply refuse to dye my hair. Not yet ;)


NO NO NO if you pluck them out then more of them grow (some people say 2 for each one you get rid of, some people say TEN :eek:)!!! I just cut them, 'course they'll grow back, but at least only in the same amount... :D

VIRGIL: now that's gratuituous cruelty, we know it very well. But my mum said she didn't go white that young so what's wrong with my DNA :D Maybe it's modern life, or stress, or pollution, but I refuse to have white hairs, to age and to grow up :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare:

[Virgil]

VIRGIL: now that's gratuituous cruelty, we know it very well. But my mum said she didn't go white that young so what's wrong with my DNA :D Maybe it's modern life, or stress, or pollution, but I refuse to have white hairs, to age and to grow up :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare:

Well, if I have to have grey hair then...:D

[motherhubbard]

NO NO NO if you pluck them out then more of them grow (some people say 2 for each one you get rid of, some people say TEN :eek:)!!! I just cut them, 'course they'll grow back, but at least only in the same amount... :D



I think that if this were true men going bald would just start pulling out their hair.

[kratsayra]

If you girls have any white hairs at your age now (and I think all three of you are in your twenties), then you will definitely be grey at a fairly young age. Sorry to bring you the bad news. ;) I'm sure all three of you in ten years will be dying your hair. :p

yes I'm prepared for that inevitability ;) . . . my dad and his mom both went gray quite early. but my mom (55) and her dad (80!) have barely any gray hair. I think I got my dad's hair genes though, alas.


I think that if this were true men going bald would just start pulling out their hair.

hahaha. yeah, I read somewhere that it wasn't true. but who knows, maybe it is . . . :eek:

[Virgil]

yes I'm prepared for that inevitability ;) . . . my dad and his mom both went gray quite early. but my mom (55) and her dad (80!) have barely any gray hair. I think I got my dad's hair genes though, alas.


Actually I got the same split between my mother's and father's side of the family. Unfortuantely I got my father's side of early grey. :bawling:

[SleepyWitch]

I've got lots of white hair, too. they grow in little nests with 5-20 of them huddling up. you can't really see them what with my mess of hair, but if you dig, you can find them. my best friend plucks them out for me.
they are about 3 times as thick as my normal hair :confused: :cold: are they mutants?

[manolia]

NO NO NO if you pluck them out then more of them grow (some people say 2 for each one you get rid of, some people say TEN :eek:)!!! I just cut them, 'course they'll grow back, but at least only in the same amount... :D


Thanks for the warning. I have heard of that and then asked my dermatologist and she said that this is not true ;) Not sure..but i don't see them (white hair) increasing in number ;)


I think that if this were true men going bald would just start pulling out their hair.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Petrarch's Love]

Wow, all my fellow twenty-something lit netters seem to be going grey. Could it be the effects of too much reading? Too much lit. netting? I thought those whitish strands were just lighter bits of blonde, but now you have me wondering and holding bits of my hair up to the light. :lol: Clearly I need to sign off at this juncture and go back to work.

[SleepyWitch]

LOL I'm the one vote who said I would have any kind of cosmetic surgery, and I would, but I would take care not to overdo it. I think older, healthy people look terrific. I'm trying to maintain my level of health now so that cosmetic surgery never becomes necessary. But sure, I'd have a tummy tuck if I needed it, my eyes lifted when the day comes, Botox, etc. I don't want to ever look like a plastic mannequin, but I do want to look "not wrinkled."

I'll admit it, I have veneers on my teeth, I get my hair colored to "enhance" it's depth, and I get glycolic peels. I'm in my thirties, so I use antiaging skin care products and don't sunbathe and don't smoke. I try to eat the right things and I sure do exercise a lot.

I would never get extensive lifting done, though. That just makes people look weird. I think we really need to change our views about aging in our society. I know some people in their fifties and sixties, in my hiking group, who feel like outcasts and really, they're in better shape than some twenty- and thirtysomethings.

hang on.. you're in your 30s? you're the lady in this pic, right? :eek: when I saw your pic I thought you were 19-ish :eek:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c368/********/yelenaseby-magic-show-2005.jpg

I don't want to look really old or gain a lot of weight, either. but I wouldn't mind a couple of wrinkles, seeing as they can make a face more interesting.

[kilted exile]

I have noticed in the last 6mths that my hair is a lot thinner than it used to be. Dont really care though, it is still thick enough to cover up the operation bald spot. Once that becomes visible I will start shaving it however....

[Koa]

I think that if this were true men going bald would just start pulling out their hair.

You do have a point there but my mum keeps reminding me...:sick:



they are about 3 times as thick as my normal hair :confused: :cold: are they mutants?

Yes they're so thick they look like plastic! So I always try to think they're not real...


Yes, that's me and the man is my husband.

That photo is almost three years old, it will be this summer, so I was twenty-eight in the photo, and my husband twenty-seven. But yes, we're thirty-one and thirty now. We've never smoked, don't stay out late, sleep seven to eight hours a night, eat very healthy most of the time, exercise a lot, and meditate. Well, I meditate, my husband doesn't. We're both into good skin care, too. I have good genetics as well. My parents have always looked younger than they are.

See? Healthy living works! LOL Really, it does, but I think the good genetics play a big role.

Well indeed it all depends. I have the skin of a teenager, pimples included :lol: but my sleeping schedule has been crazy lately, I love junk food, don't refrain from a drink or two or three every now and then (England did that to me :lol:) ...etc. I recently had a temporary job and most people there looked to me like they were in their 30s. I then found out two of them were slightly older than me, and one even younger :sick: :eek: I looked at them closely and they had wrinkles! I think it's work (I've been mostly a student), or having kids.. or both. (not to mention the local lifestyle which is far more unhealthy than my native one, food and drink -wise...)

[Jislani]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: You're terrible!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:




You mean you don't like this. :p

http://www.costumesofnashua.com/CNWebSite105/Active905/Pages/Wigs/Character/PicsCharacter/LAT8039drphil.jpg

I seriously wouldn't get any type of surgery unless it was for a serious reason. Falsifying yourself like that is saying to me that you don't like the way your parents, grandparents, etc. look...because that who you get or don't get it from.

I would like to hear from more people who WOULD and their reason's for why they would or have done it.

[Virgil]

Actually isn't men shaving their faces and women shaving all the parts they shave :p a form of cosmetic surgery? :D And how about a hair cut? Isn't that surgery? :lol: