Cautionary tales
Mar. 29th, 2025 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlOkay, so I don't watch much TV anymore but I do put on nonsense stuff if I like an actor. I've liked Joshua Jackson since his Dawson's Creek days and so I will watch Doctor Odyssey. It also has Don Johnson, who I also enjoy. It's total garbage and full of ridiculous plots, like Love Boat but sleazier.
This week was "Sophisticated Ladies" week on the cruise ship and let me tell you this: the three guest ladies all have clearly nipped, tucked, filled or frozen their faces to the point they all look fine until they try to talk or emote and then it's a reminder why I just can't get behind cosmetic toying with faces to "combat" aging. They were: Shania Twain, Donna Mills and Jaclyn Smith. I'm sure others find them all to still be stunning ladies, but all I can see is how their faces are ... stiff. Bits are unmoving. It looks like it's hard for them to enunciate words.
Ironically, yesterday at work my most plastic coworker was raving about the lady who did all her fillers to another coworker, who apparently is thinking about some intervention. She has the same frozen face thing going on and for the life of me I don't know why anyone would want that. Maybe they somehow don't see it because they only see their face when still, not speaking or emoting. Do I like the big crevasse between my eyebrows? No, but a lifetime of RBF made it pretty inevitable. It's part of who I am. And who I am is well into middle age, tiptoeing toward being eligible for senior discount Tuesdays at the grocery store. No amount of injections is going to change my biological age, and I feel like we'd be so much better off if we could come to terms with aging as part of living instead of treating it like a disease. Hate to break it to you - you're not going to win against it, and fighting it so hard generally results, in my opinion, in making you look worse. I focus on getting sleep, stretching, using sunblock, staying hydrated, and strength training and am trying to go into it as gracefully as I can.
For the record, the plastic coworker chronically talks about how she hates this, that or the other thing about her body as well. It just makes me sad. What a waste of energy.
I guess I'm just a judgy B. Do what you want with your faces. I just do not get it.
This week was "Sophisticated Ladies" week on the cruise ship and let me tell you this: the three guest ladies all have clearly nipped, tucked, filled or frozen their faces to the point they all look fine until they try to talk or emote and then it's a reminder why I just can't get behind cosmetic toying with faces to "combat" aging. They were: Shania Twain, Donna Mills and Jaclyn Smith. I'm sure others find them all to still be stunning ladies, but all I can see is how their faces are ... stiff. Bits are unmoving. It looks like it's hard for them to enunciate words.
Ironically, yesterday at work my most plastic coworker was raving about the lady who did all her fillers to another coworker, who apparently is thinking about some intervention. She has the same frozen face thing going on and for the life of me I don't know why anyone would want that. Maybe they somehow don't see it because they only see their face when still, not speaking or emoting. Do I like the big crevasse between my eyebrows? No, but a lifetime of RBF made it pretty inevitable. It's part of who I am. And who I am is well into middle age, tiptoeing toward being eligible for senior discount Tuesdays at the grocery store. No amount of injections is going to change my biological age, and I feel like we'd be so much better off if we could come to terms with aging as part of living instead of treating it like a disease. Hate to break it to you - you're not going to win against it, and fighting it so hard generally results, in my opinion, in making you look worse. I focus on getting sleep, stretching, using sunblock, staying hydrated, and strength training and am trying to go into it as gracefully as I can.
For the record, the plastic coworker chronically talks about how she hates this, that or the other thing about her body as well. It just makes me sad. What a waste of energy.
I guess I'm just a judgy B. Do what you want with your faces. I just do not get it.
