Botox

In the old days if you looked in the mirror and saw wrinkles and aging skin you had no choice but to live with it and be accepting of the fact that you’re getting older. Getting older used to be respectable. Grey hairs and wrinkles were badges to show that you went through life and have experience and wisdom. Things have changed now. A guy with scrubs and a stethoscope will take needles filled with toxins and inject it in your face and one hour later the bones in your face will relax and smooth out those wrinkles. But wait there’s more. Not only can you make your face wrinkle free you can also inject Botox in your lips and get those plump lips much like the ones on Angelina Jolie. There’s no doubt Jolie is beautiful but do you really need to inject your face with Botox, can’t you just adopt a black baby instead? I get it, people want to look better and feel better about the way they look and it’s their right to buy it. Whatever happened to the days of liposuction, laser eye surgery or shaving off your eyebrows and using a cosmetic pencil and drawing a new one free-hand? I certainly don’t have the face of a GQ model but Botox isn’t even an option for me, I’d never touch the stuff. Then there are people who like Heidi Montag admitted to People Magazine in 2010 that she had 10 procedures done in one day that cost roughly $30,000. “I’d been saving for two years after my first surgery. I knew it would be an investment for my career”. Looks like that failed, she is as irrelevant as ever. If you really want to use Botox than go ahead, what do I care, but don’t blame the doctor when you die of the toxins. Thanks but no thanks, I’ll keep my wrinkles and be proud of them. If I ever do want to get rid of them, I’ll use an iron.  

By: Hussein Mohamed