Entries from November 1, 2007 - December 1, 2007
Sculptra Injections: My Experience
As you all know, when we age our skin thins we lose the plump, youthful look we all love. Obviously genetics also play a huge roll, as does lifestyle and health afflictions. Getting a lot of sun, smoking, drug-use and not generally taking care of yourself can speed up this aging process and cause us to look older than we truly are.
Apparently I have always had a slight hollowing under my left eye. Joy. I had noticed it a few years ago when looking back at some photos of me when I was about 25. Well, you don’t realize if you have hollowing so much until you see it in the photos or someone ‘politely’ points it out to you (thank you, unnamed plastic surgeon). What’s worse is that having cheek augmentation (although the fat did not last) can accentuate that wonderful little hollow, and it did. What to do?? Undereye injections!
But which product? I wanted something that lasted a little longer than the usual injectables so I started doing my research. My long-time friend and physician, Gail Humble, M.D., was involved in the trials for a product called NewFlil so I started looking into that. NewFill, (now called Sculptra in the states) was a product being used in Europe for lipodystrophy in HIV patients.
Marianne
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Evacuated from Malibu Again
So, my friend and neighbor, Megan, bangs on my door a little before 4 am Saturday morning (or Friday night) and says “There’s a fire, get up.” I exclaim, “Again?? I was just in one last night.” (a small housefire on Thanksgiving night)
I get dressed, drag the cat carrier out again (which I finally put away last week from the last Malibu fire last month in preparation for another scare.), and start with the usual save-what-you-can exercise.
New Extensions!
OMG I feel like a new woman. I just went back to Bobbilynn in Vegas ( www.doobobbi.com ) and I look 5 million times better. If I could I’d fly her in once every 4 weeks to dye my hair and give me fills, I would. I love that woman.
Forgive the nasty pimple coming up on the right of my bottom lip :( Pic taken from my iphone at the Bellagio.
I Canceled My Breast Augmentation Redo
The reasons are threefold. Number one is that I am right in the middle of trying to buy a house, the second is $15,500. is ludicrous, and thirdly I just don’t have time to lie in bed and recover. I wish I could but other than finances, I have more important things going on in my life than getting breast implants
I don’t have to like it but it isn’t a necessity for me right now. Not that boobs ever are, but you know what I mean.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Permanent Make-up: My Experience
Don’t you love the ads, “Wake up looking as though your make-up was freshly applied” or “never put make up on again”? Whatever. Obviously they weren’t referring to my skanky face in the mornings. I assure you, even with permanent makeup, I don’t look like Jane Diva when I crack my eyes open for the first time each day.
The one thing that really grabs your attention about permanent make-up and convinces you to go for it is the fine collection or just-been-tattooed before and after photos —especially on the clients with pale blue or gray eyes. Put dark eyeliner on any light eye and you’re gonna look like a supermodel. The tattooed eyeliner looks especially dark and perfectly applied right afterwards, plus comparing it to an unmade up eye is simply night and day.
Granted tattooed brows are often dark and clown-like right afterwards and I don’t care what they say, if you don’t have enough brow hair to camouflage, it won’t look natural. The lips always look super bright and are as shiny as a thirteen year old slathered in dollar store lip-gloss.
