To wish Superdrug weren't branching out into Botox

[MrsKiplin]

Superdrug is offering Botox and dermal fillers to customers over the age of 25. They are launching it at one of their London stores before rolling it out nationwide. Treatments start at £99 and involve a consultation with a qualified nurse. They are apparently just giving customers what they've been asking for.

Aside from the obvious risks to people's health, aibu to feel slightly depressed that these procedures are being treated as an everyday beauty treatment. I know it can be quite traumatic to see your face ageing and we all want to look the best we can but surely as a society we can come to terms with it a lot better if we reject this constant narrative that tells us we're not good enough and celebrate what nature gave us and each other? Botox always looks dreadful anyway in my opinion!

I think that it may be a better alternative to having a procedure at a beauty salon, which has always seemed to be fraught with danger to me, but I do think that if you’re going to have Botox or fillers, the only place to do so is in a proper clinic, staffed by medically qualified aesthetic practitioners, who have a medical degree and further qualifications in that specialism.

I hope Superdrug will display photographs of what happens when Botox goes wrong - which it does even when administered by a medical professional.

Ooo I wonder if they might start offering profhilo at a reduced price too? Fillers are so last year.

misses point of thread quite spectacularly

Well I imagine the nurse will have done extensive training, for insurance purposes.

Better that than a "Botox party" in someone's front lounge.

I'd definitely do it, I'm starting to look slightly cross even when I'm not.

But then I'm not someone who rail's against vanity. It's a normal human characteristic, imo.

Agree OP having Botox shouldn’t be thought of as like having your eyebrows or your hair done.

My son's generation is now saying that tattoos have become so ubiquitous that those without them are considered quite edgy.

Anyone who describes a person as “edgy” doesn’t really have much idea about popular culture

I agree. I have a teenage daughter who is obsessed with makeup, eyebrows, face masks etc etc.

Her whole year group look like clones, straightened hair, wonderbrows etc but all things come full circle and I think Megan Markle and Kylie Jenner going Make-up free on the cover of Vogue are about to kickstart the natural look.

I do think in twenty years younger people will go Botox what the hell was that about. Afterall the clue is in the name Botox!

Will Botox be the PPI of 2020 ...if you had Botox maybe you can make a claim?

Suburban - my word, my son's sentiments, OK? 😎

Kylie Jenner kickstarting the natural look?

You mean this Kylie Jenner in her before and after pics?

Of course it was, bluelady

I see what you're saying but they are just supplying demand I guess. Times are changing, cosmetic procedures are more commonplace and accessible than years ago. Things like Instagram are pushing people to want to look more 'perfect.' Not saying it's necessarily right, but it's the way it is.
If someone wants Botox they will find somewhere to get it anyway.
I would consider it, I have inherited frown lines and I'm conscious of them.

What "obvious risks to people's health"

What are you basing this on?

I think it's great. I don't know why people seem to take it so personally that some people want to look better/younger/brighter/healthier or whatever else they want to look like.

What's your fucking problem, Suburban?

In the nicest possible way, the world would be a dull place if everyone were so grindingly earnest about Botox. I quite like it. Mind you, I would not have it done at SuperDrug.

As for dealing any wee wrinkles I find a good perm and a stout hat to be perfectly adequate

😂😂

I've had botox. Gasp.

Grindingly earnest?! That's got to be my porn star name now...

the world would be a dull place if everyone were so grindingly earnest about Botox

Yes, the people who twitter on about how refreshed and less angry they look with Botox really brighten up the world ...

youokhon www.nhs.uk/conditions/cosmetic-treatments/botulinum-toxin-botox-injections/

Read the risks section of this.

Unless when you enter the store they pin you down in a chair and forcibly inject you with botox, why do you care? You may not want it but others may - their choice.

Paracetamol has obvious risks to health. As does fried food, high sugar drinks, alcohol, tobacco, never eating vegetables ...

People are educated about risks and make their own decisions. In the case of botox they pay for it and sign documentation saying they understand the risks. Far more than is expected when a Dr gives other prescriptions (all of which have potential risks)

Surely that because cosmetic Botox isn't prescribed by a doctor. You'd expect to sign a disclaimer, wouldn't you?

Mine would be prescribed by a Dr if she'd ever confirm a day! Also she's my friend who makes money on the side from Botox. As do many nurse prescribers.

I don't know why people seem to take it so personally that some people want to look better/younger/brighter/healthier
iknow I think the problem is that younger is equated with better, and brighter, and healthier. Why is that? I think older women look great. They don’t need to look younger. I don’t even think Botox etc make the, look younger, but that’s beside the point.