That was so neat.. I felt like I was on a phone call with you…but no one responded to me when I was commenting! hahaha
I also try not to judge people with all their nips and tucks…both men and women…. but what has happened to our society? I still rememeber how beautiful I thought both of my grandmothers were…and they were OLD. My mother was 42 years old when she had me! WHAT happened to the beauty that was in aging gracefully?
That was cool! I find myself also looking at people that have had plastic surgery and thinking, ‘well, that might have been done a little bit better’ or wow, that looks great! Rarely do I say that looks great. LOL
I must admit though that after what I’ve been through, I’m so leary of any kind of plastic surgery.
I loved the comment about the man with the chemical peel and it peeling away his credibility. Very good point!
This is cool! Pam and Beth, next time you should respond with audio! (See below the comment box) We’re totally set up for it, but have yet to get a single audio comment!
I must admit you did get a good laugh out of me about your “cosmetic procedure” audio. On the other hand one of your comment has hit me head on. Sybil, you said, “peeled away their creditability” when speaking about a Congressperson. WOW - I think you have struck the nail on the head - The breast implant issue has rather been like that. Women who have had implants have been labeled as “dummies” or “their bigger the boobs the smaller their brains”concept.
We have become a society of thinking “what you see is what you get” when in fact it has nothing to do with the TRUTH! The TRUTH is that we as women are sold from the craddle to the grave what we should look like. TV and the Internet force us into feeling less than what we truly are as some of us start believing we truly should look a certain way when it fact the ones we are lookin at were “air brushed”!
How do we as leaders give back to young women that inner strength? How do we as leader teach our young about things that are truly important? How do we as leaders give society back their Self Esteem????
I challenge all of us to think before we speak and finally understand that what we are seeing is truly not what we get - in fact it may be a lot worse.
I could really relate to your audio conversation and I find I try to figure out who has had plastic surgery and who hasn’t as well. It is not as common to see in my geographic area as in larger cities, but my first plastic surgeon obviously had facial cosmetic procedures and he looked very unnatural to me.
Now, on TV and movies, some of the beautiful actresses in my generation have had too much done to their faces. They have barely anymore movement to their faces when they talk or smile and have lost all the facial expressions that made them so lovely and unique. Even my hubby notices and he will say “Wow! She was so beautiful before she had all that surgery to make her look young!”
At least women with laugh lines and crows feet have faces that look happy and normal. Some of the lip injections now look hideous, too. I have never had anything done to my face and the only procedure I have considered, is neck surgery. My neck is now looking more my age and if I had the funds, may would check into something like that. However, I am very scared to do anything to my eyes or face, not only because of the fear that the surgeon would not make me look natural, but because the surgeries look so painful and scary!
I think I would rather just grow old gracefully, and where I live, it is still acceptable to do just that! I would hate to have the peer pressure some of the women have in the cities. Yet, I don’t know why, but I do understand facial cosmetic surgery more than I do augmentation–so long as foreign substances are not used to correct the problems.
That was so neat.. I felt like I was on a phone call with you…but no one responded to me when I was commenting! hahaha
I also try not to judge people with all their nips and tucks…both men and women…. but what has happened to our society? I still rememeber how beautiful I thought both of my grandmothers were…and they were OLD. My mother was 42 years old when she had me! WHAT happened to the beauty that was in aging gracefully?
Comment by pam — October 27, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
Hi Sybil and Mary,
That was cool! I find myself also looking at people that have had plastic surgery and thinking, ‘well, that might have been done a little bit better’ or wow, that looks great! Rarely do I say that looks great. LOL
I must admit though that after what I’ve been through, I’m so leary of any kind of plastic surgery.
I loved the comment about the man with the chemical peel and it peeling away his credibility. Very good point!
Interesting conversation ladies!
Comment by bethtaylor — October 28, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
This is cool! Pam and Beth, next time you should respond with audio! (See below the comment box) We’re totally set up for it, but have yet to get a single audio comment!
Comment by Gloria — October 29, 2007 @ 9:39 am
Dear Mary and Sybil;
I must admit you did get a good laugh out of me about your “cosmetic procedure” audio. On the other hand one of your comment has hit me head on. Sybil, you said, “peeled away their creditability” when speaking about a Congressperson. WOW - I think you have struck the nail on the head - The breast implant issue has rather been like that. Women who have had implants have been labeled as “dummies” or “their bigger the boobs the smaller their brains”concept.
We have become a society of thinking “what you see is what you get” when in fact it has nothing to do with the TRUTH! The TRUTH is that we as women are sold from the craddle to the grave what we should look like. TV and the Internet force us into feeling less than what we truly are as some of us start believing we truly should look a certain way when it fact the ones we are lookin at were “air brushed”!
How do we as leaders give back to young women that inner strength? How do we as leader teach our young about things that are truly important? How do we as leaders give society back their Self Esteem????
I challenge all of us to think before we speak and finally understand that what we are seeing is truly not what we get - in fact it may be a lot worse.
Breast Wishes,
Kathy Keithley-Johnston
Executive Director
Toxic Discovery
http://www.toxicdiscovery.com
Comment by Kathy Keithley-Johnston, R.N., CLNC — October 30, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
I could really relate to your audio conversation and I find I try to figure out who has had plastic surgery and who hasn’t as well. It is not as common to see in my geographic area as in larger cities, but my first plastic surgeon obviously had facial cosmetic procedures and he looked very unnatural to me.
Now, on TV and movies, some of the beautiful actresses in my generation have had too much done to their faces. They have barely anymore movement to their faces when they talk or smile and have lost all the facial expressions that made them so lovely and unique. Even my hubby notices and he will say “Wow! She was so beautiful before she had all that surgery to make her look young!”
At least women with laugh lines and crows feet have faces that look happy and normal. Some of the lip injections now look hideous, too. I have never had anything done to my face and the only procedure I have considered, is neck surgery. My neck is now looking more my age and if I had the funds, may would check into something like that. However, I am very scared to do anything to my eyes or face, not only because of the fear that the surgeon would not make me look natural, but because the surgeries look so painful and scary!
I think I would rather just grow old gracefully, and where I live, it is still acceptable to do just that! I would hate to have the peer pressure some of the women have in the cities. Yet, I don’t know why, but I do understand facial cosmetic surgery more than I do augmentation–so long as foreign substances are not used to correct the problems.
Comment by jeena — November 15, 2007 @ 2:51 pm