Plastic Surgery anyone?

We can all be a little bit vain. Even me. I admit it. I always try to make the best of myself with my clothes, make-up and hair. People judge you by their first impression of you. (If they should or not is another subject for another day). Some people may say I am high maintenance. (I don’t
like camping or getting dirty so you can call it glamping but it will always be camping to me!).

I want to comment on the shocking trend towards looking perfect. Even stars that have professional make-up and hair are often “photo-shopped” before hitting our magazines. How does that make the average woman feel? She feels inadequate. How can she compete with something that isn’t even real? What can she do?

Well she still tries. She can get Botox, Collagen injections, implants. She has a wide choice of options if she has the money. Yes a wide choice; Botox paralyses the muscles and we can tell when people have had it, Collagen, hmm let’s ask Lesley Ash how she feels about it! And implants – well the news of the last few weeks about the quality of silicone says it all. Does this make you wonder what these do to your body? (Never mind the harm to your bank balance!).

Well no need to wonder anymore. With the recent silicone scare on breast implants, will this make women stop and think before putting something unnatural inside their body? This may slow down the amount of women wanting implants the way the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre had stopped people flying. But this is a temporary measure. People’s memories will fade and the dream of being perfect will overtake their initial concerns.

Longer term I think magazines need to take some responsibility for the images they provide. Use real woman and stop the photo-shopping. We want to see their wrinkles and to know they are not perfect. It would work and there would be more female solidarity.

The truth is you will only get older and more wrinkled, so enjoy what you have while you have it. Life is short – enjoy it!