A friend of mine has just gotten her second facelift and sad to say she mostly looks stretched in more places around her face - but not younger, not more beautiful.
I've only know two women (including her) that I'm aware that have had a facelift, and both cases they looked unnaturally stretched in parts of their face - mostly the jaw to eye area.
Before this friend went for the surgery - which she described as major - another friend from Latin America told me that it takes 3 to 4 surgeries for a face to look really improved. I wonder if this is true?
As a woman yes I think about these issues, but frankly given the age difference between me and these friends - around 10yrs (older than me) in both cases, I'm not too worried. I would never claim to be perfect but my skin is much better than theirs and I haven't had any facelifts.
A friend in the business recently recognised another well known lady in the business at an airport and described her as very plastic looking. As a bit of a plastic surgery queen herself, it was a pretty bad comment.
My questions - to both ladies and gentlemen - are; do you think facelifts often work? And incidentally have you noticed a lot of ladies in the industry getting them?
Funnily enough even people who can afford really good surgeons often look awful after plastic surgery - ccelebrities include Courtney Love and Victoria Principal, and then there are so many women in Florida who look very plastic...
She lifted it ever so slightly and she looks great! I believe they work IF you have the right doc. No doubt. But, I think you should stop at ONE...more than one, then you start to look freakish...they pull the skin so far...I'm all for plastic surgery, when/IF I need any of that done, I'll do it, but, I'll wait till Im in my 60's.
I can't stand the eyebrows pushed half way up the forehead either. The lip jobs are even worse. Some women look more like ugly clowns the pretty women.
I'm all for striving to look one's best, whether you are a model or astrophysicist. I know a handful of ladies who have had facial plastic surgery, and I think the end result not only has to do with choosing a gifted surgeon, but also on how one's body adjusts to the surgery. For instance, two ladies I know had liposuction in their midsection and flanks. One looks healthy and lean, the other has a strange dimpling on her tummy and loose skin. Both surgeons were the best of the best, both ladies were 5'5"ish and only had about 10 pounds to lose. One is elated with her surgery, the other regrets it.
I have been Botoxing since I was 23 and I got some lips about a year ago. The Botox is great, it's great when I mention I'm getting Botox and someone says, "But you don't need it." LOL cus I have so much of it in my face already. Teehee. But the lips looked HORRENDOUS on me! I have a round "baby face" and the fillers in my lips seemed to almost plump up my cheeks even more! I looked puffy all the time. But many ladies (and one man!) I know get their lips done and look great with them. It just depends on the person I suppose.
she is also very careful about diet and exercise. She looks 35 or so, and is way way past that. I think success is a combination of the right surgeon, diet, metabolism, exercise and what is trying to be accomplished. She didnt want to look 22 so targeted a mid thirties look which to her clientele is exactly what they were looking for. Oh, I might mention she had a breast reduction at the same time..to 36ddd from well Im not sure but they were advertised as 38ddd before and that was being modest on her part. A complete success I have to say on both goals.
Let's see: too much sun, too much booze, too many drugs and you want a miracle? I've never seen a facelift on someone that I knew that made them look appreciably better. Sure, if you count success as fewer wrinkles, less skin, and eye-lids that make you look like a Vulcan as success, then I know a few people like that. You get one body in this life and if you take care of it, it will take care of you. I don't want to meet providers in their 60s, facelifts or not. If she's in her 60s, I hope she's paying me... LOL!
...more people getting *good* facelifts than you would imagine. All plastic surgery carries the unfortunate misconception that it's obvious - and for all the wrong reasons. That lion-faced woman is about as representative of face lift patients as Maxi Mounds is of breast augmentation patients. There will always be the extremes out there, but for the most part hundreds of thousands of people get hundreds of thousands of procedures and no one can pick them out of a crowd as being "that one" who had a procedure.
If you take care of yourself and go for minor procedures starting early, rather than go for drastic procedures late in life, you will essentially retard the aging process. I think of it as routine maintenance.... you all know you should change the oil in your car, rotate the tires, flush the radiator/transmission/brake lines, get tune ups, etc - on a schedule, NOT only when your car dies or catches fire on the interstate. Same goes for your body!
But no, no amount of surgery will make up for a hard-lived life...
When it is not done right you end up with what is called the Nike swoosh as it ages the skin can still be tight but the muscular structure under the skin sometimes not so much leaving what Elvis's ex wife now has and it is a nightmare. Then there can also be a vector which is sort of opposite of the swoosh but not tremendously better.. I would be afraid. I did know a girl who was fantastically beautiful who did her lips and eyebrows and god really knows what else and she is no longer at all the beauty. It is only millimeters of a difference and it is god awful.Very very sad. I did meet a woman who was in her late 60's who had one and I was shocked she looked about 32 and a lot like Christy Brinkley remarkably so and younger than Christy does ATM. I think she had very good bone structure though.It looked a lot like a modern miracle .Kendall Lynn
Posted By: EdrienneCole
...more people getting *good* facelifts than you would imagine. All plastic surgery carries the unfortunate misconception that it's obvious - and for all the wrong reasons. That lion-faced woman is about as representative of face lift patients as Maxi Mounds is of breast augmentation patients. There will always be the extremes out there, but for the most part hundreds of thousands of people get hundreds of thousands of procedures and no one can pick them out of a crowd as being "that one" who had a procedure.
If you take care of yourself and go for minor procedures starting early, rather than go for drastic procedures late in life, you will essentially retard the aging process. I think of it as routine maintenance.... you all know you should change the oil in your car, rotate the tires, flush the radiator/transmission/brake lines, get tune ups, etc - on a schedule, NOT only when your car dies or catches fire on the interstate. Same goes for your body!
But no, no amount of surgery will make up for a hard-lived life...
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