Getting a good result with cosmetic surgery and injectibles seems frighteningly hit and miss. You only have to look at some of the celebrities, major and minor, to see how easy it is for either them or the surgeon to get carried away and for the result to be odd.
You wonder how famous stars like Melanie Griffith, Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway can get ripped off with such poor quality work. Not to mention stars like the hapless Michael Jackson, who was no doubt addicted to surgery. Did anyone ever say no to him?
Then there are others who have clearly had work done, but very well. In fact usually these people are evasive about whether or not they’ve had surgery or injectibles, but of course they have. My list includes Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jane Seymour.
I predict that over the next few years we’ll stop seeing the rush towards injectibles – botox and fillers. I reckon we will see a return to surgery, performed more naturally. Needles are seen as the easy and cheaper option, but fillers change the shape of the face and start to look lumpy. Many celebs have been caught out with a tell-tale puffy pillow face: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Madonna and Kylie at times, Dannii Minogue, Courtney Love. Botox in excess also leads to a weird flat, shinyand/or surprised appearance as seen on the faces of Nicole Kidman, Anthea Redfern and Brix Smith-Start, whose eyebrows resemble Mr Spock’s. Lip and breast augmentation are the two areas where surgeons seem to get it wrong most often.
At the end of the day it seems a real lottery as to whether or not you’re going to get a good job. Surgeons should be accredited to industry organisations but anyone can set themselves up to offer botox or fillers. I cringe when I see shabby beauty salons advertising these services. I am steering away from all this in the belief that we all get old and there’s nothing more ridiculous than an old lady whose hair and face are trying to stay young but her hands and gait give her away.
Debbie Reynolds and Julie Andrews, both over here recently, have both had “good” work done but it’s very obvious too and somehow that makes me respect them less. Joan Collins too, for all the nonsense she spouts about having good genes. She is the same age as my mother, who also had good genes and aged very well, but does not have the telltale signs that Collins has.
What do you think?
