Other people’s Botox habits making me look old

[Humanpincushion]

I’m in my mid thirties and I look my age, I think. I’m starting to get some creases round my eyes and some fine lines in my forehead and a deeper line in my smile crease.

im not necessarily bothered but over the last few years I’ve started to notice most of the friends and colleagues around my age ageing backwards 🤣

I went to the hairdresser the other day and the 17 year old apprentice was chattering away with a complete lack of tact as they often do and I mentioned approaching 40 in an offhand way she gasped and said oh I thought you were already past 40. When I revealed my true age of 36 she said seemed really suprised.

it got me thinking- as Botox seems so widely popular now has it changed perception to thinking people in their thirties are still fresh faced and wrinkle free ??!!

perhaps I just need to jump on the wagon and have some filler?

thoughts?

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I’m still fuming about the time when my younger sister who was 6 at the time said to me “You’re a very very old lady, now”. I was 18.🤣🤣🤣

Look a few messages back at my last message as I have put on a link and a little about getting it prescribed 👍🏻

My 14 year old daughter are sitting having a conversation right now saying 'imagine when we're 18, we'll be so old'.

Oh lord 😁

Dont give into peer pressure. In the end, you will look fabulous whilst everyone else using botox will look like melted candles 🤷🏻‍♀️😜 grow old gracefully. Embrace getting older and all that comes with it

Why would people using Botox look like melted candles?

God the actual bitter judginess on every Botox thread is very cringe.

Lol.

I know many women in their early 60s who have some botox. They look fantastic. I don't know a single one who looks like a melted candle. I know a few women of 60 who look 75 though.

I hate the Botox look, I think it actually makes you look older especially when the neck and hands show the signs and not the face. The worst look for me personally is the excess lip filler. Looks like they've had an allergic reaction.
I'd rather grow old naturally.

Aaand everybody clapped 👏 👏 👏

I have a rigid skincare routine and use serums and light therapy. I’ve noticed some lines developing now and I’m 44. I do look younger which is something to be thankful for but you’re your own worst critic. I work with girls who have Botox and they are only early 20’s. They are striving for their forever youthful look. We all age yet seeing an older woman somehow never goes down well and they are criticised. Botox and fillers will only get you so far. I make sure my skin care routine is sorted, plenty of water, take marine collagen (mostly for severe joint and ligament pain - perimenopause) and I wear factor 50 sunscreen daily. Makes a difference.

Why do so many people think Botox and fillers are the same thing? No one is having Botox to give them plumper lips!! The clue is in the name.

Same reason they slag all procedures off. They don't know a thing about it.

There was an entire thread once where a woman was furious about Botox. She meant fillers but would not, could not, be told that they're different things.

Are you really in your 40s?
You reply like an immature 18 year old.
Perhaps that's the issue ?
Immaturity and inability to accept yourself as an older women?
Certainly the habit of looking at other women to reassure yourself that you look younger is a dreadfully toxic habit as is replying so childishly.
I think I've nailed it
Some women accept and like themselves and others don't?

Yes immaturity and Botox are 'my issues'.

It's your smugness, mate. It reeks.

OP asked for thoughts on Botox and fillers. I feel it's ok for those of us twenty years older than her to say we are not having them, and why. Just so she knows that not everyone is succumbing.

Nice

It's fine of course for women to do whatever they want with their appearance. Perhaps make your peace with that?

If growing old naturally is so amazing then why do women feel the need to criticise women who prefer to look less knackered as they age?

We all have to pretend to enjoy aging as a tribute to not being dead yet. It's a curiously martyrish position, I find.

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I don't think aging is particularly amazing. I just prefer it to the alternative. That's all.
I am in a profession where my looks don't matter, so I don't need to look like Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts.

I'm not a professional model or in the public eye either; 99.9% of women who choose Botox aren't. It's just a preference.

I suppose I don't think aging is soul-destroying either. It is what it is, somewhere in the middle.

I'm amazed that people are this blinkered about it. Genuinely.

So many older women have a bit of botox. It's hilarious that people think they are all a cross between Baby Jane and Jocelyn Wildenstein

But if they don't use hyperbole, how would they ever justify their judginess levels?

But I didn't mention Baby Jane, or Jocelyn W at all. I cited women who are widely known for their beauty, whom previous pp said look great. So not hyperbole.

I know people find it unbelievable that any 50 something woman is not constantly weeping over her wrinkles, but I am fine the way I am. I also don't want my DD to start Botox or fillers in her twenties, like so many women are, and I don't see how I can advice her against that if I am doing it myself.