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Reverse Botox - to 'prove' you haven't had Botox?!

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IhateHPSDeaneCnt · 08/02/2025 18:16

Noticed this a few times - even on Daisy May Cooper AIBU Series (which I'm a late viewer to and enjoy MN references e.g 'Looks like a Thumb') - they have Klingon style Forehead i.e 3 to 4 symmetrical creases as if to prove they haven't had Botox - looks weird and laughing at reverse psychology!! what happened?

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crankytoes · 09/02/2025 22:24

NameChangedOfc · 09/02/2025 18:08

I think that OP is trying to say that people (actors in this example) go from an extreme to another, and both are equally inmature. E.g. first doing botox to hide aging and going to extremes with that, and once bottox is "mainstream", they go all the other way to emphasize that they don't do botox, as in being morally superior.
I don't know, that's my interpretation of the op. But I have absolutely no idea who the Daisy lady is. And I personally feel repulsed by botox.

How does one 'go extreme' the other way? You mean they just dint have Botox?
But not having Botox doesn't leave one looking like a Klingon?

ARainyNightInSoho · 09/02/2025 22:20

I think the OP is having a little lie down

Verlaine · 09/02/2025 19:47

Do you know how to read? I am repulsed by botox (botulinum toxin). Where do I talk about the people injecting it? Are you projecting maybe?

Ah got it. Sorry @NameChangedOfc. What other neurotoxic proteins upset you out of interest?

also, does it upset when it’s used in the treatment of migraines and for sufferers of cerebral palsy, or in those with vision problems? I guess so as it’s the protein itself that’s upset you as you clarified.

Newfoundzestforlife · 09/02/2025 19:13

NameChangedOfc · 09/02/2025 18:23

Do you know how to read? I am repulsed by botox (botulinum toxin). Where do I talk about the people injecting it? Are you projecting maybe?

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Look at you trying to back track..

Newfoundzestforlife · 09/02/2025 19:11

Perhaps you should just mind your own business and not worry about what other women do with their own bodies.

InWithThePlums · 09/02/2025 18:53

DMC on Woman’s Hour said that she had tried Botox in the past but found it made acting harder so doesn’t anymore.

keiratwiceknightly · 09/02/2025 18:50

Is it possible that the comedian Daisy May Cooper was making a joke about a decision not to have Botox anymore, and calling it "reverse Botox" as a joke?

BendingSpoons · 09/02/2025 18:37

ThePoshUns · 09/02/2025 18:32

I'm going to start telling people they I've had reverse Botox and that's why I have so many wrinkles on my forehead!

Haha me too. I'm liking that I'm apparently in trend now. Similar to when big eyebrows made a comeback and I was glad I had always been too lazy to over pluck them in my youth.

ThePoshUns · 09/02/2025 18:32

I'm going to start telling people they I've had reverse Botox and that's why I have so many wrinkles on my forehead!

BurntBroccoli · 09/02/2025 18:24

Maybe they all have muscle weakness from too many years of getting Botox and the skin gets thinner and floppier so more noticeable?

NameChangedOfc · 09/02/2025 18:23

Verlaine · 09/02/2025 18:16

And I personally feel repulsed by botox.

You feel repulsed by a person having a cosmetic treatment that doesn’t affect you? What a strange reaction to have! @NameChangedOfc

Do you know how to read? I am repulsed by botox (botulinum toxin). Where do I talk about the people injecting it? Are you projecting maybe?

FreebieWallopFridge · 09/02/2025 18:16

Wtf is reverse Botox?! Nothing about this makes any sense whatsoever

Verlaine · 09/02/2025 18:16

And I personally feel repulsed by botox.

You feel repulsed by a person having a cosmetic treatment that doesn’t affect you? What a strange reaction to have! @NameChangedOfc

BurntBroccoli · 09/02/2025 18:11

sp1ders · 09/02/2025 18:01

Beautiful dahling 😘

😂😂😂

NameChangedOfc · 09/02/2025 18:08

I think that OP is trying to say that people (actors in this example) go from an extreme to another, and both are equally inmature. E.g. first doing botox to hide aging and going to extremes with that, and once bottox is "mainstream", they go all the other way to emphasize that they don't do botox, as in being morally superior.
I don't know, that's my interpretation of the op. But I have absolutely no idea who the Daisy lady is. And I personally feel repulsed by botox.

sp1ders · 09/02/2025 18:01

Beautiful dahling 😘

Reverse Botox - to 'prove' you haven't had Botox?!
MrsTerryPratchett · 09/02/2025 17:59

ChompandaGrazia · 09/02/2025 17:31

Eh? Woman looks normal isn’t news.

No. But maybe OP as a technophobe hasn't realised HD means we can see the wrinkles now.

sp1ders · 09/02/2025 17:58

I'd rather have wrinkles than be someone who can't even express themselves adequately online.

It's words Jim, but not as we know them 🤔🤨😂

steff13 · 09/02/2025 17:56

So you're saying people are having plastic surgery to give their foreheads wrinkles? I don't get why someone would do that? Botox isn't permanent, once it wears off your wrinkles come back.

ARainyNightInSoho · 09/02/2025 17:52

PinkArt · 09/02/2025 17:50

OP 'reverse botox' isn't a thing?! What you're describing is just botox that's wearing off, no botox or light botox so the forehead still has movement, isn't it?

We may never know. Apparently it’s not googleable and OP can’t be bothered to explain

Verlaine · 09/02/2025 17:51

Only MN! - jump on the bandwagon! What I was trying to say is that actors have to - ACT - and they need facial expression. However, the 'reverse Botox' is almost like plastic surgery!

are you drunk?

Bakedpotatoes · 09/02/2025 17:50

I don't know what reverse Botox means and I've googled it and everything? OP please tell me what it is - I'm invested now.

PinkArt · 09/02/2025 17:50

OP 'reverse botox' isn't a thing?! What you're describing is just botox that's wearing off, no botox or light botox so the forehead still has movement, isn't it?

lnks · 09/02/2025 17:47

ARainyNightInSoho · 09/02/2025 17:43

I am finding this confusing

It's just an OP sneering and laughing at women who make different choices to her.

ARainyNightInSoho · 09/02/2025 17:47

OP you have assumed everyone knows what reverse Botox is, and nobody does. What is it?