Well, I guess I’m glad that I haven’t had Botox yet. I just read that a study concluded that those who receive Botox injections, which typically take a few weeks to totally paralyze the muscles underlying your facial tissue (jeez, that doesn’t even sound right!), may actually develop more severe wrinkles elsewhere. Why? Because your face will emote, dammit, if it wants to, that’s why!
You are still bound to have emotional expressions, and since some of your muscles are essentially paralyzed from moving, your face overcompensates, and your facial muscles that normally wouldn’t move that much at all while making certain expressions, start to move allover the place, and voila, you have newly formed wrinkles in other places where you may not have gotten them otherwise.
Botox is probably the most popular outpatient, nonsurgical method of anti aging for the skin today in dermatological practice. It’s wildly popular in Hollywood, where most women get the injections in their aging hot spots, like their crows feet area and their forehead area, where emotive wrinkles tend to really show up thanks to smiling, laughing, and all that other awesome stuff we do when we are having fun.
Squinting is also a big culprit, helping to add to those unfortunate crows feet. But being expressionless surely isn’t the answer, and it looks like Botox may not be the awesome cure all that we thought it was. You may want to think twice about Botox anyways honestly. What do we really know about the long term effects of injecting this poison into our bodies repeatedly – SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR?!
Nothing really, and I’m sure that the cosmetic companies that are making billions off of this would be slow to tell us if it did. There are tons of excellent nonsurgical anti aging creams out there that really help you to keep your youthful good looks longer, and there are even some devices and tools you can use including the very effective method of facial exercises, and of course peels and in home microderm that can all help you maintain that young, awesome skin for longer.
