Nicole Kidman. What's she done ?

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I'm watching the undoing on sky - what has Nicole Kidman done to her face ? I didn't recognise her .

I saw her on Graham Norton last night and thought she looked good. Think she’s definitely laid off the Botox. Yet years of use means I guess she just doesn’t have the lines.

I’m a fan of Kylie, sometimes she goes a bit far with Botox/fillers but on the whole she looks good. Agree she looked slightly frozen through the forehead last night and had too much makeup on which didn’t help. It must be so hard to be 50+ in the public eye. I’d look bloody awful with a load of purple eye makeup on though and I’m mid 40s.

My only thought on this kind of cosmetic surgery and Botox, etc is that it doesn't really make the people look much younger. They almost always look like an older woman who's had treatment done. Other parts of their body often give that away, be it their hands, ankles, neck, etc.

I can see why they do it in their line of work, and I realise what they are trying to achieve. However they will never be able to achieve what they want - to be younger, to look younger. They will almost always be an older person who has had surgery or processes.

@Aragog

My only thought on this kind of cosmetic surgery and Botox, etc is that it doesn't really make the people look much younger. They almost always look like an older woman who's had treatment done. Other parts of their body often give that away, be it their hands, ankles, neck, etc.

I can see why they do it in their line of work, and I realise what they are trying to achieve. However they will never be able to achieve what they want - to be younger, to look younger. They will almost always be an older person who has had surgery or processes.

This is spot on. I looked at Kylie’s hands last night and they’re 20 years older than her face. We all know how old she is and she’s fooling nobody. Except perhaps herself.

I don’t think Kylie is trying to fool people about her age. She just didn’t want the sagging jowls and wrinkles that would naturally occur at this age.

I still think on the whole she looks good. She just occasionally overdoes it. She looked absolutely amazing at her 50th birthday party. Who wouldn’t want to look like that?

Yes - surgery doesn't make you look younger. It just makes you look like someone in their 40s or 50s (or whatever) who's had 'work'.

Plus, all these women end up looking the same. The same permanently surprised look, taut forehead and puffy cheeks. LA face. It takes away the uniqueness which made them beautiful in the first place. Sad.

Every single actress in Hollywood has had ‘work’. Do they all look old/ puffy/ strange?

No, Julia Roberts looks amazing. As does Rachel Weiss. Gillian Anderson? There’s loads that look good because they haven’t overdone it.

Helen hunt looks dreadful because of, I assume, Surgery or such like

Kylie was on graham Norton yesterday and she looked weird around the eyes I'm sure she's had lots done too

Every single actress in Hollywood has had ‘work’. Do they all look old/ puffy/ strange?

When they overdo it, yes, especially when photograhed in unflattering lighting. Rachel Weisz was gorgeous, but she too seems to have gone overboard on the fillers of late.

Yes I agree, when they overdo it it looks awful. But plenty of good, undetectable work out there.

I think it’s incorrect to say all work looks bad.

Just had a look at some recent pictures of Rachel and I concur she may have gone overboard with the filler.

@Delatron

Just had a look at some recent pictures of Rachel and I concur she may have gone overboard with the filler.

I think she and Daniel might have got a 2 4 1 cut price deal on the fillers. He's been looking a bit puffy faced recently too. Don't know if I should be happy or sad to see men having to deal with the same pressures as women regarding ageing!

I also don’t think Kylie or Nicole etc are trying to fool anyone with regards their age, I think it’s about looking as good as they can. Whether you think they look better with or without is highly subjective.

Personally I think Nicole looks good, so did kylie the last time I saw her, I didn’t see her last night though. Helen hunt though I feel sorry for, I think universally folks would agree the work she’s had done looks terrible. It’s so tight it’s obliterated her features.

But it’s not just women, Tom cruise is another one, he actually creeps me out, apparantly his cosmetic surgeon is in South Africa and renowned as the best in the world, and he was pulling it off but then went weirdly puffy and too far.

Madonna did the same thing, she took it too far at one point but it seems to be reducing, she also did the puffy thing.

It looks like whatever work you have done, you just age from that new point.

The puffy thing is supposed to mimic the roundness of youth but it never works.

Some folks do it very well though, Gillian Anderson is a prime example. She barely resembles what she used to look like and has had a shit ton of work and I think looks fantastic.

Remember none of it is permanent (apart from survey). Fillers wear off and look much better after about 6 months I think. They take a while to settle too.

The only person I’ve ever seen who looked good after a lot of work was Sharon Osborne about ten years ago. Her face was exquisite then. It didn’t last long though.

Yes Sharon Osbourne did look good.
Was it a facelift? Maybe that’s the answer! Wait for a well done facelift.

Sharon looks completely different from her youth but it's done well and what she wanted!

Interesting about Tom Cruise's plastic surgeon being in South Africa - pretty sure that's where Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones were when he was papped with stiches, etc a few years ago (probably 10-15!)

@wowfudge

Interesting about Tom Cruise's plastic surgeon being in South Africa - pretty sure that's where Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones were when he was papped with stiches, etc a few years ago (probably 10-15!)

I was just thinking that, if he’s that good, cruise won’t be his only famous client...

The sad thing is, the younger people are when they have surgery, the more the likelihood they'll need to repeat it and end up looking plain weird when they are actually old.

I don't think this kind of work looks good at all. It looks scary and uncomfortable. I totally get that there's pressure on women celebs to look "good" but I think their surgeons should speak up and tell them when to reign it in.

Well ageing in general changes the length, shape of your face so she's not going to look the same regardless. I agree with a pp that she looks better then she did a few yrs ago when she was really puffy & bigger lips.
However I do think some of the problem with fillers/botox is they look great ok photos, stills but when someone's face is animated it just looks off.
I'm enjoying the programme but do get distracted by the lower half of her face.

Whenever women have a lot of work done on their face they always have the beginnings of the 'bride of Wildenstein' look. It's not a good look.

I think there’s no doubt that little bits of work can improve how you look from a certain age, but once you start, and of course continue you to get older, it’s a bit like having to run faster to stand still and there’s inevitably a tipping point into looking weird (and progressively weirder), but I don’t know how you just stop if you’ve been doing it for ages and you are in the public eye..

*you continue to get older

I think she looks so much better since she allowed her lips deflate, for a few years there she looked like an 80 year old, but she seems to have eased up a bit.

I saw her in a restaurant in London, she is really tall, incredibly thin and her skin is so white its almost translucent.

Without realising who she was initially I couldn't stop looking at her, she really had a presence.