Quickie Face Lifts?
Apparently Hollywood has a lot of quick fixes right at their fingertips around Oscar time and other big events. Jeez, will the madness ever end with the obsession over looking young? Oh, who am I to talk, I’m just as obsessed with maintaining my skin for as long as I can, I guess I’m just envious I can’t afford to go to the cosmetic dermatologist at any whim like Hollywood can!
Anyways, some of the plastic surgeons and dermatologists are giving away celebrity secrets for fast face lifts and other skin tightening and toning processes that the stars ask for, under the strictest confidence of course, right before major events, film roles and even just for the heck of it, to keep looking young.
We all know how tough it is for actresses when they get older to get good parts, and most of them really feel like they are under a lot of pressure to look their best for as long as humany possible just to keep their careers afloat and keep their mugs in the limelight with these anti aging and wrinkle busters.
One of the most popular treatments is a minimally invasive “mini face lift” where the sides of the face and eyes are pulled back to pull and iron out wrinkles around the eyes and any skin gathering that’s going on around the sides of the face, and they put a single stitch in by the hair line, instead of a real, full-on face lift which is very invasive and very painful and takes months to fully recover from. The look of the mini facelift is much more subtle and the recovery time is a mere 4 days so you’re back in action asap. It also will cost you a lot less, at about $5,000 for the procedure.
Another one is where the doctor takes abdominal fat from the patient and injects it into the areas of the face that are showing signs of aging, to give a fuller, more youthful appearance, and to fill out wrinkles with one’s own body fat. This is a pretty popular choice because it gives a very natural plumping appearance, and people like the idea that their own fat has been used instead of a synthetic filler.
Then of course, there’s the good old Botox, which still draws it’s fair share of clients for it’s quick fix and low recovery time, but many actresses are leary of the “frozen face” syndrome, and since their job involves emotions and showing them facially, they opt to get a light filler to plump out wrinkles and crows feet instead.
Smart choice I’d say, I’d prefer not to have poison injected into my forehead if I can avoid it after all. Of course, for all us “normal folk” who don’t have a couple grand to drop any old time we want to, there are of course a myriad of advanced anti aging and wrinkle skin care products on the market for us to choose from, and I’d say some pretty darn good ones at that.
