Sunday 18 July 2010

Botox - the Land of the Living Dead

Just when it seems safe to peak out from behind the fingers another sick-making beauty story comes along to bite you on the bum. And this one really is a teeth rattler. Botox, always scary since it involves injecting a deadly poison, is now blamed for freezing faces altogether - so someone has to pummel it to free it up! Just whack my cheek right there will you, there's a good boy.

Ladies, what is going on here? Are you all mad? What is it about the odd wrinkle that is so horrifying that you freeze your face and then have someone put his fingers INSIDE your mouth to work the muscles. Yuck! This is the job of therapist Nicholas Joss. "The skin becomes dull and waxy-looking with Botox. It needs a massage to get the blood flow back," he said. He charges more than £200 for a 90-minute facial, including a power massage.

Call me crinkle chops but I'll live with it. The alternative, a face like a corpse that needs to be thumped back to life, is surely the stuff of nightmares.

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