TO CUT OR NOT TO CUT

I recently had lunch with a friend who announced that she was going to have some work done and I knew she didn’t mean a new kitchen. She’d come into a little extra money and decided to splurge on her face. I was stunned. I never figured her as all that vain or as one who would go under a knife voluntarily. Besides, I think she looks fine. She looks her age, which is my age.

But I encouraged her in her decision because friends do that and told her it’s her money and her choice. She said she felt guilty, considering what else she could do for the world with that money. I said write a check to your favorite non-profit and then go do what you want.

Having said all the right things, I went home, looked in the mirror and started pushing my face around.
I mean, come on, you can’t help but think … what if. We’ve been second guessing our looks since we were 12 and it doesn’t stop….even though we know that you can be lovely at any age and that we’ve earned these lines and there are more important things to value and worry about.

But it remains a tantalizing subject. Would you? Could you? This week on my Juicy Tomatoes radio show I talked to two women who made different decisions. One went ahead with full-on surgery- eyes, forehead, chin, the jigglers along the face. The other continues to resist.
I think that right now most women are letting aging come naturally, although that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about those sunspots. Right?

But I do wonder what’s going to happen in the future when our daughters are in their 50s. Will facial remodeling be as commonplace as teeth whitening and coloring the gray? And then, how much harder will the choice be?
susan