Who Do YOU Want to Look Like?
Brangelina: Hollyweird’s most influential Power Couple. I must admit I have walked into my PS’s office and stated that I wanted Angelina’s lips and brow arch, so count me in I suppose. How about you? Are you coveting Angie’s lovely cheeks and lips? Are you a man wishing to be more Pitt-ish? Apparently, you aren’t alone. A recent ISAPS survey determined that many of us want to look like Brangelina and are willing to have cosmetic surgery to achieve it.
Plastic Surgery can certainly improve your appearance, but it usually cannot make you look like an entirely different person without substantial bony work. Unless, of course, you already have a similar facial structure, eye color, height, hair color—the similarities can’t simply stop at the nose or lips. If your goal is to be a look alike and you plan on making a career out of it, I understand, But if you are the average, every day Joe looking to resemble Brad, you have a lot of surgery ahead of you.
It is in my opinion, that one should aim to be comfortable looking like yourself, just improved and refreshed. Although, who am I to say what you should strive for? Do as you please. If you want to have extensive surgery to look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, it is your decision. Just know that it doesn’t involve just a brow lift, a nose job and lip implants.
So, who do you want to look like? Do you wish to resemble Adriana Lima, Jessica Biel (who wouldn’t??), Jessica Alba? Is it possible? How far are you willing to go? Surgical alteration of the bony structure of your face can be extensive, painful and require considerable downtime. After all, the structure of the face determines the appearance. It isn’t all smoke and mirrors. Your bones make you who you are on the surface.
If I had my druthers, I am not quite sure who I’d try and resemble. Maybe a mixture of Angelina Jolie, Adriana Lima, and Natasha Henstridge? They all have very desirable features. They are all very beautiful women adored by many. Not that ai want to be adored or anything. I am just not willing to undergo the amount of surgery, if it were even possible to begin with, to resemble any of these ladies. I simply try to improve upon what I have to achieve a general consensus of desirable beauty: fuller lips, fuller and higher cheeks, no wrinkles, even skin tone, arched brows, small nose, bright eyes, straight, white teeth, healthy long hair, thin, lithe frame. The end result is the same goal, we all just have differences we must contend with.
Achieving facial harmony and balance is a goal many of us have, without necessarily looking like anyone else but ourselves. I am sure many of us don’t strive to look like a celebrity, be it Angelina or the Jessicas. Not that we would give it away if we had it. But I believe many of us are not attempting to surgically alter our faces to truly resemble these ladies, we just wish to have smaller noses, fuller lips, or more prominent cheeks as all the beautiful icons seem to have in common. However, when we walk into our surgeon’s office, we choose a person who is familiar to us all to explain out desires.
How many of you have brought photos of celebrities to your consultations to give your surgeon a visual in what you are attempting to achieve? I must admit I have brought photos of what I wanted and what I did not want. A tool with which to determine if he and I were on the same page, not a grocery list of procedures to alter our ensure beings for the sake of being a look-alike.
I would love to hear from you all. Who do you find attractive? Which of their features appeal to you and have you brought in photos of said person to get your point across? It doesn’t mean you’re necessarily obsessed and dissatisfied with who you are, it means you know what you like and what you don’t like. Who do you find beautiful and what makes them beautiful?
Marianne
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I like Angelina Jolie... Looks natural but I don't belive that everything is natural with any of the celebrity...
I would like to look like laetitia casta.
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or eva green (the bond girl in Casino Royal)
seriously, what the hell are they feeding those french girls that they are skinny with boobs & gorgeous?
I agree with Marianne. Just be an improved version of yourself and stay healthy! I personally do not like high cheek bones and full lips (think Meg Ryan). P.S.is good in moderation. I'd rather be safe than sorry! Just my opinion!
Sophia Loren
but since I have abs no features in common with her I'll settle for keeping what I do have from dragging on the cement three feet behind me
Hey marianne I like natasha, angelina& kim k combo. I just had a lip reduction with a lip lift 5 days out & hoping i made the rt. desicion after seeing everyone with big lips. I come to the conclusion they just overpower my face& no matter how hard i want have these girls lips , in reality i`m me.
LOL Halo!!!!
Birdy: how is your healing going, honey? it is so good to hear from you! :)
IE: Thank you for the comment :) I have seen some overdone ladies and woo, I feel badly that they don't realize it. However, if that is what they want to look like, I guess more power to them.
E: AJ is simply gorgeous in my opinion :)
Hey baby girl, healing sux what could i say, i`m makinga pic diary everday till i heal! gotta get used to the new lips, they do fit my face better, but i will always love & want big lips! miss ya sweetie!
Personally, I had a celebrity body part for a while and hated it. Could I get Angelina's lips or Audrey Hepburn's neck or anyone else's legs? No. I had Marty Feldman's eye. I had this swelling behing my right eye due to an autoimmune problem and for a few months I had one eye that stuck out a bit. They fially figured out what was wrong and how to treat it and, thank God, I don't look like a celebrity anymore.
The bottom line is be healthy and if you want to improve your looks, go for it, but aim to look like yourself but better, not like someone else.
Actually, given my druthers, I would want Angelina's lips, figure, AND income.
Valerie
I forgot to add something. Back in the 1930s and 1940, one of the most popular actresses was Myrna Loy. She was a wonderful actress and excelled at comedy. (Run, do not walk, to rent "The Thin Man" and any of the other Thin Man movies.Great stuff.) Anyway, women flocked to plastic surgeon's offices to get Myrna Loy's nose. Now, however, we would look at that nose, slightly uptilted and with an arched nostril, and wonder what the fuss was about. Look at Jean Harlow or other stars of the 1930s with their thin eyebrows and pale faces. No one looks like that anymore. Fashion and Beauty are weird that way.Maybe in 60 years, people will look at photos of Angelina Jolie and thing her lips are way too big.
Valerie
I think Eva Green and Monica Belucci. But, I really want to look like me just better if I can.
I'm going to go a little out on a limb here and say Scarlett Johannsen. For the life of me I don't understand why she doesn't get more respect as a truly beautiful woman. And to say she is "curvy" is just silly. I guess she is by Hollywood standards, but I just think she looks healthy. And I'm not just talking her lips, which actually I think are not that flattering. She just has a confidence in her body that I really admire. Not the best singer in the world...but we can't be good at everything!
I usually don't look at celebrities and think "I'd like to look like him", but there's one guy that I have to admit I'd trade places with: Jason Lewis, of Sex and the City. That guy is irritatingly good looking. >:^) But, even he isn't perfect. He has a crooked nose. So, I am going to comfort myself in the knowledge that my nose is "better" than his. Ah, I feel better already. ;^)
Rick,
I am LOL at this because I just mentioned him in an article for the sole purpose of him being man-candy. lol He is irritatingly good looking, hahah!
Nancy,
Scarlett Johannson is very beautiful. You know who I think is beautiful, Diane Lane. I have always thought she was just gorgeous. And Rene Russo! I think they are both just beautiful.