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?

Down to the individual but I'd say a 'high maintenance person' if they have Botox and fillers. Personally I think you can tell on some people and it makes the face look odd. The woman in the shop next to me a few days ago, so artificial, not a line in sight but very pulled looking face and harsh looking. Her choice but IMO looks odd.

But the Botox won't give you clear skin.

I agree op, I get both and don’t see it as high maintenance at all. I get my nails done, and that’s higher maintenance in my view (due to the time you have to put aside for them). I couldn’t give a stuff what others think - my money, my face and body, thanks.

I have botox twice a year and fillers once a year, I think of it as the same category as seeing a dental hygenist.
I have my hair cut every seven weeks and do my own colour.
I am not high maintenance.

Loads of celebrities look weird now from all the work they’ve had over the years. I noticed Gwyneth Paltrow did during her court case and Jennifer Anniston does as well, not to mention Renée Zellweger… I’d much rather look like Mary Beard as pp mentioned!

Medical treatments are entirely different. That's like saying reconstructive breast surgery after breast cancer is the same as getting implants.

having your hair done every 3 months sounds very frequent? I think I get my hair cut max twice a year

I suppose everyone has different limits on what high maintenance is. I cut my own hair (started in lock down, didn't go back) so to me, visiting a salon twice a year is pretty high maintenance 😂

Indeed. Anyone who could overlook any intelligence, achievements, kindness, bravery, hard work and/or overall contribution to the world made by another woman, and bestow their 'respect' subject to whether or not she has botox, clearly has a very limited grasp on the meaning of the word.

This. If you want botox and fillers and other fake things go for it. But, to state that people who don't inject themselves with poisons, or even extra natural bits and bobs are letting themselves go is delusional. Maybe some of us are happy in our own skins and don't feel the need to go down that route?

Yes, of course spending hundreds/ thousands a year injecting a neurotoxin into your face is 'high maintenance'.

£80? I pay £300 for mine! Fucken hell. Where do you live?

It must be very slow acting poison 👀
I've been having it for 14 years and I'm fine 🤷

Of course they are.
You have to be pretty daft not to be able to see the difference.

My mum does it 😁 I stopped going to the salon when they all seemed to stop doing dry cuts post covid. I don’t want my hair washed, I just want it cut!

Can someone explain the purpose of dental hygienists? Cleaning your teeth properly isn't rocket science.

This. I have my hair cut and coloured every six weeks. That’s high maintenance to some people even though day to day my hair is virtually zero maintenance - wash once a week, all other days just needs a comb and straighteners if necessary.

I dont have much respect for judgemental people either.

Each to their own.

It's definitely high maintenance. I'd describe it as being high maintenance in order to be low maintenance... does that make sense? For example, getting laser hair removal is pretty high maintenance but I've known people do it explicitly because they hated regular shaving/waxing as they didn't feel they had the headspace to keep up for it. The actual low maintenance thing to do would be to just not care about hair removal/fine lines/whatever you're targeting with filler at all

In any case, I don't see why it matters whether you're high maintenance or not.

You only have to look at any real housewives franchise to see what happens with prolonged Botox and fillers, they all look odd.
I think it's high maintenance financially, I also think it indicates you place a high value on physical appearance and looking youthful.

See I have friends who spend more time each day on beautifing themselves with potions and make up than I spend once a year on Botox. For me that makes them way higher maintenance, way more annoying and way more self indulgent - especially when I have to wait for them to get ready!

I really hate the Real Housewives look.

The whole premise that you need to make the effort to make yourself look young is judgemental

Very agist
Very rude
But hey have a go at the people who you started off insulting when they bite back

Ofc it is high maintenance. Having regular cosmetic surgery is high maintenance regardless of how long it takes etc.

No one's saying that she's low maintenance, though, nor does she claim to be.

Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die Dosis macht, dass ein Ding kein Gift ist.
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.
(AKA, 'the dose makes the poison')