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Marissa's Pick of the Week
My pick of the week this time is... Botox! Now, normally, we write about color cosmetics or skin care brands, but I'm going into a new realm, and it's all because I'm turning 45.
A doctor who I know through our school and church opened a med spa in town. Since this was all new to me, I thought it would be easier to put my face into someone's hands that I know. Plus, his nurses work in our local hospital in the emergency room, so my first thought was that if anything happened to me, they would know what to do! Irrational, maybe, but comforting. So, I made my appointment and poof, off I go.
The first time out, they take "before" pictures of you so you can actually see up close and personal what your crease lines look like (ick, it isn't pretty magnified 1000x). I just wanted Botox between my eyebrows and they suggested over each brow, too. Scared as can be (I didn't tell anyone but my neighbor in case anything happened to me!), I sit in the chair with an ice pack over my eyebrows and wait for the nurse to come in.
For all my anticipation, the actual process only took a few minutes. It didn't really hurt, and I didn't really bleed at the injection sites. The big thing about Botox is that it is NOT instantaneous, and in a society that wants to see results right away, patience is a foreign word. I kept checking the mirror every two hours to see if the process had started. No, it hadn't. Twenty-four hours later: nothing, I could still move my eyebrows. Forty-eight hours later: still moving them. Finally, I stopped looking in the mirror and bam - just like that, I was frozen in time. It's a very weird feeling - no matter how hard you try, you just can't move your eyebrows.
Did it really make me look any different? In my opinion, just enough to make me look not as tired as I normally do with three boys, a husband and a cat! Do I think other people noticed? Not unless I told them. I did have some folks ask if I was using a new skin care product. I have to say that I didn't have many lines to begin with, so maybe that is why it wasn't too noticeable. However, the psychological uplift it's had on me is definitely worth the price. Will I do anything more radical at this point? No, but I'm not 50 yet! In this day and age, never say never.
- Marissa
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Posted February 15, 2008
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