For years, my sister kept insisting she was going to have breast implants. She wore a tshirt that said "Itty Bitty Titty Club" and would tease me about standing in line twice when breast were handed out, cheating her out of any.
We all thought she was just being too insecure.
She got a sizeable disability settlement from Lowe's and announced a portion of it was going for the implants and again, we as a family balked. Then she showed me why...Oh. My. God. Her breasts, if you could call them that, were more like someone pinched two parcels of skin and stuck oversized nipples on them. One pointed out, the other down.
She got her 36C's, which look pretty good and now I can tease her, saying yea, we're the same size now, but I didn't shell out 5 grand....
Not to be outdone, my other sister spent 8 grand on a full face lift when she was 47. It didn't do squat, specially around her eyes and her scars were there for a year.
I am planning on a midface lift. I wanted to do it last year, but too many bills. I will do it though. I would love what's called a mini-tummy tuck, where they don't bind and mesh the muscles, just lipo and remove sagging skin. Being a smoker, though, I can't have it done-the healing would be disasterous.
There is obviously such a thing as too much plastic surgery, ala Michael Jackson or Joan Rivers or the worst of the worst, Jocelyn Wildestein(I think that's her name).
A woman in England calls herself the human Barbie doll and she actually looks damned good for now after something like 42 procedures. But in her case and the above, I think a psychological screening should be mandatory-say, after your third time in.
Recapturing your youth takes more than plastic surgery, but most don't realize that. I have always had a weak jawline ( my chin just about disappears when I gain weight) and I just feel having a lift would be an improvement, not a change. It's hard on the mind too when looking in the mirror and seeing someone who's so much older than you feel staring back at you, so why not get your appearance to match your inner age? I'd draw the line at baby doll shirts and skinny jeans, though.
