For getting Botox in my 20’s?

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I’m 28 next month and have the most horrific frown lines and laughter lines already. I have a very expressive face and I’m really sensitive to sunlight and frown even if it’s cloudy out!

I know I should be wearing sunglasses more often and I’ve started wearing factor 50 on my face year round, but what other preventative measures can I do?!

I’m posting a pic of my frown lines 18 months ago to now... I’ve aged so much!!

I don’t smoke, haven’t got children and don’t have a very stressful life!

I had Botox the other day just waiting for it to fully kick in but my frown line is still there so I think I’ll need a top up.

How many of you have Botox and how old were you when you started?

OP why have you used pics of you frowning? I’m so confused right now.

Another thing to note, but I have found that cosmetic procedures tend to have an aging look if you get them done while young. There's a few celebrities you can Google for this.

Those who said we're doing it for the menz need to go out and take a look at your average man in the street.

But the menz feel it doesn't apply to them. They are absolutely content with their double standard. The ghastliest old letch feels entitled to gorgeous young 20-somethings like our own OP.
Also, I'm not going out on the street again. Your previous post on the state of the Great UK Male was way, way, too canny & disturbing.

I may have to get walled up as a nun.

I'm the same age I've asked a doctor and a beauty therapist who give the treatment and they've both said no as they don't feel I need it yet. Mine are forehead lines which are still visible when my face is relaxed but more pronounced when I've been raising my eye brows a lot (obviously). I say ask a professional and trust in their advice. Personally sometimes I think the 'frozen' look ages people.

Managing to convince women that they're doing it for themselves is one the the patriarchy's greatest recent successes.
Bet "they" couldn't believe their luck that one actually worked - "feminism" on their terms.

A whole new way of making women compliant whilst allowing them to think they're being defiant. Conveniently eradicating thoughts of genuine defiance in the process as women think they've kicked the patriarchy to the kerb.

Managing to convince women that they're doing it for themselves is one the the patriarchy's greatest recent successes

Yes, because we all know women can't think for themselves or are only doing it because they've been brainwashed.

A lot of attempts to guilt trip women on here by other women. And then doubting that women are competitive amongst each other on their looks, no apparently its all about the men!

But the menz feel it doesn't apply to them. They are absolutely content with their double standard.

Male botox is a big industry. As is liposuction, particularly vaser, hi-defintition lipo-suction to get a sixpack and ride of love handles and male breasts.

Doesn't change a bog ugly face though!

Meh, who says anything about being 'defiant'? I'm actually quite well versed in radical feminist theory - they rather love me on GenderCritical subreddit, thankseverso. But get away from the issue of my appearance, that's MINE, and if radical feminism has a problem with my botox, then radical feminism can fuck right off because I'm not sacrificing my vices on the altar of ideology. Not for anybody. Not even for women.

I'll fight to the death for women's reproductive rights, I'll do anything I can to ensure that women are treated fairly, I'll campaign to end porn and prostitution, I'll shout from the rooftops that ORGASMS DON'T MAKE ABUSIVE SEXUAL PRACTICES SACROSANCT, and I'll never shut up about women's rights to privacy and safety from males. Among many other things. But fuck right off if you think you can wrestle my makeup brushes from me.

I just think it might be best not to fire botulism toxins into your forehead to induce paralysis, regardless of age.

I don't think it's about guilting anyone but sometimes procedures are unnecessary and actually predatory if they're targeting a woman's self esteem for profit. I mean if you think about some women like Charlotte Crosby, it must be a rabbit hole that just never was justified in the first place?

That's a very extreme example. You also have a lot of women who manage not to go overboard.

Wow, and here's me thinking of ways to look a bit older because I'm 34 and still look quite young, as in shop assistants looking and not being quite sure if I'm over 25 to buy alcohol and comments on how young I look throughout my adult life. Least I won't need Botox eh! Silver lining to actually feeling a bit rubbish for looking too young for my age!

Managing to convince women that they're doing it for themselves is one the the patriarchy's greatest recent successes.

Yes. Notions of what constitutes 'beauty' do not exist in a vacuum.
The decision to eradicate wrinkles is a reaction to ageing.
What is wrong with ageing? - nothing.
So why do some women want to look younger?
Because our society's notion of 'beauty' dictates youth, alongside other very specific parameters which we tend to buy into because we are part of that society.
Who are the major opinion formers in society? For the beauty industry, it's fashion houses, cosmetic firms, Hollywood - predominanty male-owned institutions, pushing an oddly limited notion of acceptable standards of 'beauty'. With this goes the associated, but insidious concept that success & happiness are not possible for women without attempting this skewed version of what constitutes attractiveness.

There is nothing inherently unattracative about wrinkles. Only our society makes it so, & informing/changing/profiting from society is predominantly still the preserve of men.

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I am not sure how you read into my post that I am trying to make women feel bad about taking care of their looks

I take care of my looks and can be vain less so as I have got older as I got over thinking so much about my looks myself but I don’t think Botox is taking care of your looks it’s playing into society’s obsession with remaining youthful

If you still want to milk your looks/attractiveness as you get older (as another poster had suggested she was going to all she can while she can) was a comment that if this what you want to do you still can because older women can be attractive too and some women and men will always play on their attractiveness to others this doesn’t disappear once you have wrinkles you may not get quite the same levels of attention as when you are younger but men and women are still sexually attracted to each other once they have lines and things are sagging