Very funny joke about this in 28 Years Later.
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A soldier shows a kid (who has been on the island in quarantine) a picture of his (modern day Botox using) girlfriend on his phone.
The kid asks “what is wrong with your girlfriend?”
The soldier thinks nothing is wrong. “She’s beautiful what do you mean?”
The kid then tells a story about a woman who looked like that in his small village when she ate shellfish.
I was just telling my wife about this scene today. She had a woman at her work with massive fake tits today. Bigger than her body kind of huge. As she was telling me about her she said “who wants a plastic woman?”…the perfect segway for this scene.
Well now, fake tiddies, I’ll allow it.
Can’t believe people are so lazy, they are implanting water beds into their bodies.
No successful Botox doctor is going to be this honest. It’s bad for business.
The contract must have already been signed.
It’s not a one-and-done treatment. You need to keep going back, so the doctor’s incentivised to make sure you still want to come back.
Keep em trapped with fear of ugliness.
when ironically the shit is making most of them uglier.
like, what the fuck is this even?
https://www.thelist.com/1784977/kristi-noem-unrecognizable-throwback-pic-before-plastic-surgery/
Botox injections are used as a treatment for migraines sometimes, so it wouldn’t be that weird for this conversation to happen in that context. (I know it’s a joke)
Do guys get Botox? I’ll admit at my mid 40s, I look like I’m in my mid 40s. I’m too lazy to pursue getting Botox but I like the mental fantasy of magically looking 10 years younger.
There’s a classic survivorship bias where people think all Botox is bad because we always see the obvious gaffs and just assume that good Botox is natural. Botox is a lot more common than people think, it’s usually just a touch-up
That being said. It puts me off how often you see celebrities with botched jobs. You would think that with all the resources at their disposal they would get the best. And if the best cant do it at least 90% of the time there’s no way you’re putting me under the needle of whoever I can afford.
Not that I really have a strong desire to get Botox right now, but I don’t know who I’ll be in the future.
If there’s anything other than simply “very damaged personalities,”I think it’s probably a sense that as celebrities they need to freeze time or even turn it back to stay competitive in their field. When cosmetic procedures work, it’s because doctors communicate the limits of what can be achieved while passing for natural, the patient accepts that, and the work is done well. If any of those pillars breaks, it looks bad. If any of them breaks for a celebrity, it goes viral.
