Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty

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Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty
« on: April 29, 2008, 04:10:01 PM »
By Julia Sommerfeld

Reality check on the war on wrinkles: Looking younger or just weirder?

Wrinkles have become optional. So have age spots, forehead furrows and baggy eyelids.

Name a badge of aging and there’s a fix being peddled by your local dermatologist or plastic surgeon. Crow’s feet? Freeze them with Botox. Laugh lines? Inject them with Restylane. Saggy neck? Tighten and tuck with a scalpel.

But is all this really making us look younger? Or just weirder?



At 62, Priscilla Presley’s once-stunning cheekbones are now buried in flesh that looks as puffed and wrinkle-free as a marshmallow. Country music star Kenny Rogers, 69, whose facial work has made him practically unrecognizable and oddly feminized, complained to People magazine that plastic surgery left him “too tight around the eyelids.” And Courtney Love, 43, now on her second round of revision work to undo a series of procedures that left her face looking tight, lumpy and lopsided, wrote on her MySpace page: “I have to restore myself to not looking ridiculous.”

But such cautionary tales aside, cosmetic surgery is more popular every year. Nearly 12 million cosmetic procedures were performed in 2007 — a 7 percent increase from 2006 and a 59 percent increase from 2000, according to the plastic surgery group. The staples of the age-defying arsenal — facelifts, eyelid tucks, Botox and injections of wrinkle-plumping substances — all rose last year.

Winning the battle, not the war
Plastic surgeons are among the first to admit that the pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty.

“We’ve all seen some bizarre-looking results … the fish-lip syndrome, the over-Botoxed celebrity who looks like her forehead is made of porcelain, the brow lift that leaves somebody in a perpetual state of surprise … or eyelid lifts that are so extreme that somebody ends up looking like a cadaver,” says Dr. Joseph Gryskiewicz, a cosmetic surgeon with a practice outside Minneapolis and a spokesperson for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.


Hollywood has long determined how we want to look when we walk out of the cosmetic surgeon’s office, from Angelina Jolie-inspired lip plumping to Halle Berry’s perfect little nose. But celebrities are also visible examples of surgery’s shortcomings.
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Re: Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2008, 04:13:06 PM »
uhhh,daghan na ko og wrinkles.lols

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Re: Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2008, 04:19:09 PM »
uhhh,daghan na ko og wrinkles.lols

just pray

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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2008, 04:19:42 PM »
mawala na ang wrinkles kung mag pray?.lols

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Re: Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2008, 04:42:40 PM »
mawala na ang wrinkles kung mag pray?.lols


yes, kay  happy thoughts man imong imagine

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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2008, 04:47:21 PM »
mao ba?unsaon sige man ta ka bilar ani sa dinokdok.lols

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Re: Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2008, 04:50:24 PM »
mao ba?unsaon sige man ta ka bilar ani sa dinokdok.lols

wala na gani ko kahugas pa ug plato

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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2008, 04:52:29 PM »
nyahahhaha,,,ako pod.hahaha

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Re: Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2008, 04:57:38 PM »
nyahahhaha,,,ako pod.hahaha

pati yoga nakalimtan na nako wala nako maka exercise pag taman

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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2008, 05:02:17 PM »
samot ko.matug na ko hapit aron walay wrinkles