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Excessive Plastic Surgery: Real, Fake & Urban Legends

catseye said:
She's not going to be quite so delighted when she's a fair bit older. One of the benefits of hitting sixty is being allowed to sit down more. The thought of not being able to sit, added to everything gravitating downwards... it won't be pleasant.
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From the brief squiz I gave the article, I believe the condition was a temporary result of the surgery rather than a permanent condition.
 
This huge lips/Barbie/bimbo look is getting more mainstream. I see a lot of young girls about these days who look plastic, full of Botox , lip fillers ect.

Sad.

I understand women my age n up having things done to stave off aging , but the fashion now is to have a bunch of stuff done before your even 25. I've been offered Botox off a friend of a friend. No thanks . I dont need it and don't want it. Years of been a pale skinned goth in my teens and 20s and keeping off the dreaded sun beds, and oily skin , means I'm wrinkle free. And when I do get them I don't care.

Nobody's injecting me with that rubbish!!!

Modern beauty standards are MAD.

Some of the women in this thread look incredibly freakish.
 
FunkyTT said:
This huge lips/Barbie/bimbo look is getting more mainstream. I see a lot of young girls about these days who look plastic, full of Botox , lip fillers ect.

Sad.

I understand women my age n up having things done to stave off aging , but the fashion now is to have a bunch of stuff done before your even 25. I've been offered Botox off a friend of a friend. No thanks . I dont need it and don't want it. Years of been a pale skinned goth in my teens and 20s and keeping off the dreaded sun beds, and oily skin , means I'm wrinkle free. And when I do get them I don't care.

Nobody's injecting me with that rubbish!!!

Modern beauty standards are MAD.

Some of the women in this thread look incredibly freakish.
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Goth girls were always my cup of tea rather than the Baywatch Babes of the same era.
 
FunkyTT said:
This huge lips/Barbie/bimbo look is getting more mainstream. I see a lot of young girls about these days who look plastic, full of Botox , lip fillers ect.

Sad.

I understand women my age n up having things done to stave off aging , but the fashion now is to have a bunch of stuff done before your even 25. I've been offered Botox off a friend of a friend. No thanks . I dont need it and don't want it. Years of been a pale skinned goth in my teens and 20s and keeping off the dreaded sun beds, and oily skin , means I'm wrinkle free. And when I do get them I don't care.

Nobody's injecting me with that rubbish!!!

Modern beauty standards are MAD.

Some of the women in this thread look incredibly freakish.
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The puffy lips look is really gross & freakish & not sexy at all, presuming the object is to be sexy.

Also getting big tits / arse injections..

I don’t like to think about what some of these women will look like in years to come. I don’t think it’s driven by men finding these ‘enhancements’ attractive. But then I’m several decades out of the loop & maybe younger guys love it.

We’re all too old here to know the why - I suspect social media, ‘influencers’ & celebs play a big part. It’s a way to boost your online profile for a start.
 
At the salon today, gazing glumly into the mirror at the horrific effigy staring back, I remarked to the hairdresser that the lights in 'ere are a bit harsh, innit!

She laughed and kindly turned off the rather over-enthusiastic corner spotlight, whereupon my reflection suddenly became more human.

'OK,' I thought, 'I'm old. But I'm not about to do anything about it.'

My face is staying wrinkled. It's the world's punishment for judging me. :chuckle:
 
escargot said:
At the salon today, gazing glumly into the mirror at the horrific effigy staring back, I remarked to the hairdresser that the lights in 'ere are a bit harsh, innit!

She laughed and kindly turned off the rather over-enthusiastic corner spotlight, whereupon my reflection suddenly became more human.

'OK,' I thought, 'I'm old. But I'm not about to do anything about it.'

My face is staying wrinkled. It's the world's punishment for judging me. :chuckle:
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You got things mixed up: it's the picture in the attic that's supposed to age.
 
I think a lot of it is driven by the need to post selfies at every opportunity, and look photogenic whilst doing it. Also whilst staying so thin that there's no subcutaneous fat to smooth out the face and body. Nobody has enormous knockers if they're seven stone and a size zero, nor much of an arse. And it's hard to pull the duck-face pout if you don't have lips that looks as though they came out of a packet of jelly sweets.
 
FunkyTT said:
This huge lips/Barbie/bimbo look is getting more mainstream. I see a lot of young girls about these days who look plastic, full of Botox , lip fillers ect.

Sad.

I understand women my age n up having things done to stave off aging , but the fashion now is to have a bunch of stuff done before your even 25. I've been offered Botox off a friend of a friend. No thanks . I dont need it and don't want it. Years of been a pale skinned goth in my teens and 20s and keeping off the dreaded sun beds, and oily skin , means I'm wrinkle free. And when I do get them I don't care.

Nobody's injecting me with that rubbish!!!

Modern beauty standards are MAD.

Some of the women in this thread look incredibly freakish.
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We are allowing children and young adults the ability to change their physical appearance and gender earlier and earlier and because it is such a divisive issue we can't have an open discussion about it.

We will have to wait for a couple of decades to see what the fallout will be when these youngsters have had time to reflect. Only then will we know whether this approach is right or wrong or somewhere in the middle.
 
Naughty_Felid said:
We are allowing children and young adults the ability to change their physical appearance and gender earlier and earlier and because it is such a divisive issue we can't have an open discussion about it.

We will have to wait for a couple of decades to see what the fallout will be when these youngsters have had time to reflect. Only then will we know whether this approach is right or wrong or somewhere in the middle.
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The result, I fear, will be more suicide—and there's already plenty of that going on.

I shall avoid tying this to any specific debate, but the extreme body modification advocates are clearly involved.

Most people—including myself at times—choose the beliefs that chime with their gut instincts, forgetting, of course, that these gut instincts (like their very bodies) were honed hundreds of thousands of years ago and tailored to survival in a life very different to that we now experience.

Both the for and against mobs desperately want to be right, because they feel deeply that the conclusions we as a society reach will bolster/wound their sense of self-identity.

It's relatively easy to disagree about, say, art, science or history, but it's much more challenging when the point of debate is whether one of the debaters is mentally ill, dangerous to youth, or an acceptable member of society. In fact, when art, science or history brush up against such notions of self-identity, these subjects become very much more contentious, and the scientific method, boundaries of historiography, and sense of aesthetics often get left behind somewhat: there's a hierarchy of importance, and modern society has rather egotistically thrust personal identity to the apex.

Personally, I'm trying to bear all this in mind more often, but my man-ape brain is constantly lobbying to seductively simplify complex issues, maximise free time, and generally keep life safe and predictable.
 
Headline says it all-

Linda Evangelista says she is ‘deformed’ after cosmetic treatment

Linda Evangelista was one of the original 1990s supermodels and, alongside Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, dominated the catwalk and fashion magazine covers in the 80s and 90s. However, she says she is “permanently deformed” after a non-surgical cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

In a post on Instagram, Evangelista said after having a procedure known as “CoolSculpting” (which involves “freezing” fat on the body and is similar to body conturing) she developed complications which have resulted in a radical change in her appearance.
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The article doesn't have a current photo so I had a look around.
Have to say; while I couldn't see what the fuss was about back in the day, she looks normal now for a nearly 60 year-old.

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escargot said:
Speaking of models...

I've always fancied myself as an artist's model. Lucian Freud would've appreciated me.

Not joking, I'd love to model. :cool:
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Art colleges are always looking for life models, and coming from someone who went to art college, none of the models looked like supermodels believe me.
 
Nosmo King said:
Art colleges are always looking for life models, and coming from someone who went to art college, none of the models looked like supermodels believe me.
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Yup, there are several colleges nearby but I know the staff so it would be hard to preserve the dignity! :chuckle:

I'd present a Sue Tilley sort of image. :cool:
 
escargot said:
Yup, there are several colleges nearby but I know the staff so it would be hard to preserve the dignity! :chuckle:

I'd present a Sue Tilley sort of image. :cool:
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Are you a benefits supervisor?
 
escargot said:
Headline says it all-

Linda Evangelista says she is ‘deformed’ after cosmetic treatment



The article doesn't have a current photo so I had a look around.
Have to say; while I couldn't see what the fuss was about back in the day, she looks normal now for a nearly 60 year-old.

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Although the specifics aren’t given, the reactive condition she has, “Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia” typically seems to occur as a result of body contouring below the neck using the “fat freezing” procedure mentioned. So the problem may not be to do with her face.

Although strangely, Googling about that condition in more detail reveals that it can be very effectively treated with liposuction.
 
Amergin said:
Although the specifics aren’t given, the reactive condition she has, “Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia” typically seems to occur as a result of body contouring below the neck using the “fat freezing” procedure mentioned. So the problem may not be to do with her face.

Although strangely, Googling about that condition in more detail reveals that it can be very effectively treated with liposuction.
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Yup, maybe it's easier for her to go for the idea of the procedure going wrong than just looking older.
Dunno though, I'm used to being plug so that's not a frame of mind I've ever been lumbered with. :chuckle:
 
escargot said:
Yup, maybe it's easier for her to go for the idea of the procedure going wrong than just looking older.
Dunno though, I'm used to being plug so that's not a frame of mind I've ever been lumbered with. :chuckle:
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I stand corrected, from the article in The Independent today it appears it was a facial treatment after all;

“... her face has been left “brutally disfigured” by a CoolSculpting procedure designed to treat “visible fat bulges” under her chin and jawline.“
 
Mythopoeika said:
We have a porn star in our midst! :chuckle:
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I used to work with someone who went on to be a porn 'star' she was ok to look at but nothing special, she had loads of plastic surgery to 'enhance' her assets, and looks awful now, she can still be seen on those late night softcore phone chat TV programmes in the higher numbers on freeview.
 
Amergin said:
I stand corrected, from the article in The Independent today it appears it was a facial treatment after all;

“... her face has been left “brutally disfigured” by a CoolSculpting procedure designed to treat “visible fat bulges” under her chin and jawline.“
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Trouble is, when you reach a certain age the jawline sags and the throat is either rolled in fat or scraggy.

I've had all that in the last few years depending on how much exercise I'm taking, and if my appearance was important to me it'd probably cause me some anguish.

As it is I'm luckily just a middle-aged slob. :chuckle:
 
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