To think botox and fillers aren't high maintenance?

[Fifi0]

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?

Depends on the social circles you inhabit. For some it’s high maintenance, for others it’s as standard as washing your face.

Op, it’s helping with your pain so id argue it’s worth every penny. And the fact it enhances your face is a bonus.

@rainingsnoring @GeraltsBathtub I would consider a full face of makeup every single day to be high maintenance. Tanning a few times a week, microbladed eyebrows, eyelash extensions, regular facials and body treatments as well! Add all of that to everything i do and then maybe its high maintenance 😂.

I don’t wear make up apart from mascara and blusher, I like the natural look, it suits me. I like to have shiny, healthy looking hair, wear casual clothes and just happen to have botox as well. It doesn’t define me or make me high maintenance (whatever it means).

Oh and definitely hair extensions! They are incredibly high maintenance!

No it absolutely doesn’t define you, and I respect any woman’s right to have whatever cosmetic procedures they want. Equally though, people who don’t do it haven’t ‘let themselves go’, which is what some PPs were suggesting.

Equally though, people who don’t do it haven’t ‘let themselves go’,
Absolutely.

I'm going to my dentist. Had the assessment yesterday (along with a terrifying filling - phobias are the worst!) and I'm booked in for the 24th.

If it works, I'll go to my mate who is a nurse prescriber with a beauty clinic / training clinic for the future, but I wanted it done properly the first time. It's costing me £380, but my mate will have her trainees do it for £50 if I'm willing to be a Guinea pig 😂. We'll see - the botox I used to have for migraine changed my face and I hated it. I'll see whether it actually helps my grinding and whether I can tolerate the facial changes.

Are you taking the piss?

If I take my SIL for example. She has Botox and fillers, and wears a lot of makeup, accessories and always has her hair done. However, she also knows she is 3 stone overweight and very unfit and unhealthy. Surely if you want to look good, that is what you need to spend your time and money on?

What harm is she doing you to deserve this?

That makes no sense weight adds padding to the face. I'm slim so would need botox more than a fat person.

I know plenty of overweight people who have Botox 🤷🏻‍♀️. I find the word ‘need’ interesting too, surely no one needs it, for cosmetic reasons? No one needs to look younger than they do. It’s a perfectly valid want, but it isn’t a need. Or are you saying that you think people need Botox because looking old is so undesirable?

Botox doesn’t add “padding”- you’re thinking of fillers. This whole thread is perhaps a damp squib attempt at a wind up.

What harm has been suggested when someone says that it would be more beneficial to look after health than your perception of beauty ? How on earth is that offensive ?

What? Saying that the SIL does all this stuff but she's still a fatso so it doesn't matter, she still looks terrible and needs to check her priorities?

I mean, I wouldn't feel great about that from my family.

Being fat is harmful to your health

Pretending that people are not fat to avoid offending them is just madness

The post I read said she would be better off focussing on her weight as it affects your health

Your comment is disingenuous. You imply you are talking about looks, when you talk about Botox, mention lots of beauty procedures and query being high maintenance.

The jaw pain was a fleeting comment in your OP.

If you had posted about using Botox for jaw pain, you would have got mostly supportive comments as you would have been discussing a medical
procedure not a cosmetic one. Few people would call a procedure with therapeutic clinical benefit sexist and pointless 🙄

@StephanieSuperpowers
She clearly means that the time and effort spent on makeup/Botox etc… would be better invested in exercise and healthy eating.

As is always the case tbh.

How would you define high maintenance, @Fifi0 ?

That sounds like a full time job 'beautifying' oneself rather than just high maintenance!
It's interesting how many people who clearly spend a lot of time and money don't see themselves as high maintenance because other people spend even more. I glee that's always the way with human psychology, someone else still has bigger/better.
Looking at the poll though, 90% on here disagree.

Well yes fat pads out the wrinkles so wrinkles are more visible in slim people so you paralyse the muscles to make them less visible.

Dunno op, for me anything more than brushing my hair is high maintenance...and I consider that a chore...given it's arse length and spends most of its time bunged into a long plait!

Frequent Lashes , fake tan , blow dries , nails on full face of makeup. I see a lot of women like this but yet having a 10 minute injection in your face every 4 months is incredibly high maintance ?

Oh the irony! 'snatched'... Now who is on their high horse?

I think the highest maintenance thing about Botox, fillers, etc, is the reassurance users seem to need that they’re normal and not high maintenance. Own your choices.

Why do you care if someone thinks you are ‘high maintenance’? How does it affect your life?