To inject, cut or suck? - 13 December 2007

Posted by Felicity Quigley No comments

Have you noticed that it’s becoming more and more socially acceptable to have ‘something done’ to your appearance? Whether it’s a quick botox injection into the forehead at lunchtime, or perhaps something more drastic – popping off for a holiday to South Africa for a spot of surgery and safari perhaps – an increasing number of women (and men) are opting for the needle or the knife to shave off the years or control the bumps.

Being on the wrong side of 30, what seemed to me an alien concept five years ago is something I would actually consider having done now – I have a crease in my forehead that I could really do without – years of frowning in a bad temper and squinting in the sun have etched that furrow like a small crevasse in the grand canyon (or so it seems to me). And don’t even get me started on my saddlebags – they have rendered the skinny jeans trend nigh on impossible for me to adopt unless I want to walk around town like a stumpy legged subbuteo toy. I am tempted to “just get it sucked out” – that was the advice given to me by a well known cosmetic surgery adviser when I idly complained to her about the orange peel effect on my thighs.

There are a couple of people I know (who are definitely attractive) who’ve opted for treatments, and they haven’t looked back. One (a man, incidentally), recently opted for some liposuction on his lower back “love handles”. I have to say, I really didn’t look at him and think – “boy, you sure have a fat back!” – but that wasn’t the point – he told me he had it done because it mattered to him and he could see it – it wasn’t about anyone else. Another, very attractive and successful woman I know in her early thirties has an incredibly smooth forehead that never moves. She admitted to me that she had regular botox shots and was delighted with the results.

The reality is we all have elements of our faces and bodies that we really don’t like, and regardless of if they are actually noticeable to strangers (or even our nearest and dearest), it seems to me that people are turning to these procedures to make themselves feel better about themselves. I really don’t think that this is wrong. In fact, given that we are bombarded every day by airbrushed images of size zero starlets who wouldn’t want to try and attain their own bit of perfection?

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