To think botox and fillers aren't high maintenance?

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I'm pretty low effort , I don't get my nails done natural nails only for work so its a waste of money , eyebrows once in a while I find it more painful than the botox. I get my hair done every 3 months , no fake tan or lashes. I do have botox in my forehead and jaw no fillers. I clench and helps with the pain , botox helps makeup go on more smoothly and fresher. It takes literally 10-20 minutes then you don't need to go back for months. Fillers are even less time consuming they last for 12-18 months I dont have any fillers. Facials temporarily help for like a few days but still time consuming . The lashes , fake nails and spray tans are much more time consuming.

AIBU botox and fillers isn't high maintenance?

It ultimately doesn’t matter, a person can do as they wish with their own body but I would say it’s higher maintenance than most. The majority of folk don’t get Botox or fillers.

Perhaps you are the sexist, jumping to those conclusions? Botox and filers are used by men too you know.

I'm sure the OP is absolutely devastated to have lost the respect of Nimbostratus100 from Mumsnet.

Exactly minimal makeup, I have a skin care routine but it's minimal probably spend 10 minutes a day with skincare and makeup. I spend less money because the skin is clear and fresh. I probably spend a lot less money than people who get their nails and lashes done constantly.

I mean I wouldn’t call it low maintenance!

Does it matter what you call it?

😁

It’s completely relative.

if you’re talking in terms of time then I’d agree, it takes FAR LESS time to have Botox than a hair cut / hair colour (highlighting long hair can take 4 hours ffs)

It takes far less time than a manicure or lash appointment, far less time than a spray tan or pedicure.

time wise over a year you’ll spend maybe 1.5 hour on actual Botox appointments, that’s less than a decent massage.

Money wise - £500 across year is £60 a month, it’s not cheap but again compare that to other beauty treatments you have more regularly then it’s not exactly breaking the bank in the greater scheme of things.

So I don’t think it can be classified as high maintenance time or cost wise when compared to the other treatments the average woman might partake in.

Although if you’ve only ever washed your face with fairy liquid, never seen the inside of a Boots and don’t care that you have Sascha Cohen brows (iykyk) then spending half an hour getting some Botox might feel like an alien concept and ridiculously high maintenance.

To me that’s extremely high maintenance, to go for Botox.

I think it's extremely high maintenance and don't know anyone in real life who would have the time for all this faff 😂

But if you have the time and you want to do it, why do you care if it's considered high maintenance or not...

Absolutely devastated that my jaw pain has gone and I don't need painkillers anymore.

This.

I both have it and consider it high maintenance. I just can't see how having stuff injected into your face for vanity reasons is low maintenance or even just standard.

But I don't think of high maintenance as bad, necessarily.

I don't consider something that requires 10 minutes every 9 months to be high maintenance. Referring to it as "poison' to ramp up the drama doesn't cause it to be any more onerous or time consuming.

A question if someone had bladder dysfunction and incontinence would you call it pointless and sexist to get botox? 🤔

Yeah but some of us don’t wear make up, don’t have our nails done, don’t get our lashes done and don’t get Botox either so for us, it’s high maintenance 😁.

People who call it poison sound a bit thick. Check out the BNF it has multiple therapeutic indications in medicine. Do we call all opioids poison or paracetamol?

I used to have 42 Botox injections I to my face, head and neck for migraine. Yes, I would consider that high maintenance - but medically as opposed to worrying about my looks. In fact, I hated the way it made my face look - the frozen forehead was just not my face.

I now have one self-administered injection a month instead, and yes aid consider my ongoing medical needs to be high maintenance in their requirements.

I'm about to start Botox on my jaw to try to protect what's left of my teeth from grinding and again, I'd consider that high maintenance for my medical needs.

And yes, Botox is a poison. It's a fact. There's also a huge difference between clinical need and vanity.

Botox - botulinum toxin. It's in the name, not just the dosing.

OP maybe you should have defined what you meant about “high maintenance”.

seems people are equating it with “indulgent” or “shallow” whereas from your OP it reads like you mean in the grand scheme of time and money, this is no different to hair cut / nails / daily skin care and make up.

High maintenance to me means it takes a lot of upkeep - Botox and filler absolutely DO NOT require a lot of upkeep. It’s factually incorrect to say they do, they don’t. It’s couple times a year for 30 mins. Then requires nothing else, no effort at all.

If your question is, does Botox make me shallow. No it doesn’t.

Why do you care so much if people think it's high maintenance or shallow or anything? If you want it, have it.

I'm 47 and can never imagine having fillers or any surgical enhancement. The best thing about being in my 40s is learning to accept that I'm fine, just as I am. That doesn't mean I don't look after myself, I eat healthily and exercise, and I do wear makeup at work and when I go out and I like clothes and style. But I don't want to look or be younger and I hate the artificially enhanced and overly made up look.

Some people in the mumsnet world need to get off their high horse in regards to their opinions on what other women do to their faces. I have filler which does look natural believe it or not and I also get my nails done, tan etc. Il stay snatched at 70 while those that criticise will look like a deflated balloon 😄 surely the definition of feminism is giving women the choice, I hate the Botox bashing!

I would say they’re expensive more than high maintenance. If I could afford them I would look into it for sure.

I just wish women would just be.

Why are we so obsessed with being young? Then when we are young we are obsessed with being ‘todays version’ of beautiful. Which unfortunately, at present, is plastic fantastic and layers of make up.

And all of this is driven by women. The billion pound anti ageing, beauty and diet industries are laughing us ladies!

I wondered this, an almost identical thread yesterday, was it by you OP ?