Botox
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Most botox patients are there for therapeutic reasons; it's a common and (if it works for you) extremely effective treatment for chronic migraines.
It's effective if your headaches are tension headaches. It works by paralyzing the muscles that pull on your scalp and skull, so if you get headaches from anything besides muscle tension, it's not going to work for you.
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Hey, maybe some men are into women licking their own eyeballs.
Well I am now
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Pamela Anderson has had plenty of work done, just better work.
Some of it is better.
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No successful Botox doctor is going to be this honest. It's bad for business.
the OP is a fairly well known stand up. this is a joke
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You didn't even say do something about thinning hair, fuck yeah I got this down
Don't worry about thnning hair, just take care of what you have!
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Realistically, I should just do some type of facial skincare routine. I just wash my face and use face cream occasionally but I think I’ll google men’s skincare or something. I imagine it’s good for you but I’m not putting in the effort of a Botox or similar. I have other stuff I should probably prioritize first like trying to go vegetarian.
I answered higher up, but sunscreen (I use mineral sunblock but the Korean chemical sunscreens are really good too) in the morning, and Retin-A (prescription 0.1%) at night are for sure the two best things you can do to keep your skin in good shape. Consistency really pays off. Even if you sometimes forget the sunscreen - putting it on day after day with a few misses is better than using it only when you think you need it.
Men's face skin is slightly thicker than women's but otherwise the same, and superficially the same.
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There's a classic survivorship bias where people think all Botox is bad because we always see the obvious gaffs and just assume that good Botox is natural. Botox is a lot more common than people think, it's usually just a touch-up
That being said. It puts me off how often you see celebrities with botched jobs. You would think that with all the resources at their disposal they would get the best. And if the best cant do it at least 90% of the time there's no way you're putting me under the needle of whoever I can afford.
Not that I really have a strong desire to get Botox right now, but I don't know who I'll be in the future.
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Very funny joke about this in 28 Years Later.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
A soldier shows a kid (who has been on the island in quarantine) a picture of his (modern day Botox using) girlfriend on his phone.The kid asks “what is wrong with your girlfriend?”
The soldier thinks nothing is wrong. “She’s beautiful what do you mean?”
The kid then tells a story about a woman who looked like that in his small village when she ate shellfish.
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There's a classic survivorship bias where people think all Botox is bad because we always see the obvious gaffs and just assume that good Botox is natural. Botox is a lot more common than people think, it's usually just a touch-up
That being said. It puts me off how often you see celebrities with botched jobs. You would think that with all the resources at their disposal they would get the best. And if the best cant do it at least 90% of the time there's no way you're putting me under the needle of whoever I can afford.
Not that I really have a strong desire to get Botox right now, but I don't know who I'll be in the future.
If there’s anything other than simply “very damaged personalities,”I think it’s probably a sense that as celebrities they need to freeze time or even turn it back to stay competitive in their field. When cosmetic procedures work, it’s because doctors communicate the limits of what can be achieved while passing for natural, the patient accepts that, and the work is done well. If any of those pillars breaks, it looks bad. If any of them breaks for a celebrity, it goes viral.
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It's not a one-and-done treatment. You need to keep going back, so the doctor's incentivised to make sure you still want to come back.
Botox injections are used as a treatment for migraines sometimes, so it wouldn't be that weird for this conversation to happen in that context. (I know it's a joke)
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It's effective if your headaches are tension headaches. It works by paralyzing the muscles that pull on your scalp and skull, so if you get headaches from anything besides muscle tension, it's not going to work for you.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tension headaches are an extremely common migraine trigger, hence the popularity of using botox as a treatment.
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Tension headaches are an extremely common migraine trigger, hence the popularity of using botox as a treatment.
I just wanted to clarify for those folks that have other triggers so that they don't pursue a treatment that isn't always covered by insurance and is unlikely to work for them.
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House of Fools S2E2:
JULIE: So, Vic, how much younger do you think I'll look?
VIC: Well, you won't look a lot younger, Julie, but you will look a lot more alert and surprised.
JULIE: Fabulous, because there's a new fishmonger in town and I want to look surprised and startled when he shows me his turbot.
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Very funny joke about this in 28 Years Later.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
A soldier shows a kid (who has been on the island in quarantine) a picture of his (modern day Botox using) girlfriend on his phone.The kid asks “what is wrong with your girlfriend?”
The soldier thinks nothing is wrong. “She’s beautiful what do you mean?”
The kid then tells a story about a woman who looked like that in his small village when she ate shellfish.
:::I was just telling my wife about this scene today. She had a woman at her work with massive fake tits today. Bigger than her body kind of huge. As she was telling me about her she said "who wants a plastic woman?"....the perfect segway for this scene.
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Most botox patients are there for therapeutic reasons; it's a common and (if it works for you) extremely effective treatment for chronic migraines.
It's also used for people who grind their teeth and clench their jaws at night. Injecting it into the jaw muscles can reduce the damage to teeth and tempomandibular joints.
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Everything's a toxin at a high enough dosage. And even at that dosage they can still be therapeutic. See: chemotherapy, as an extreme example.
With botox specifically, it has applications outside of just making lizard-faces. Off the top of my head, it's used as a treatment for migraines by injecting it into the back of the scalp - any swelling/filling effect it has is concealed by the hair anyway, unless the patient is bald.
Right, yeah, I am talking about purely cosmetic uses. There's always a risk associated with a botox injection, but if it can heal something or mitigate a different risk, it may be worth it.
And botox is injected at a dosage where it is toxic. That's how it paralyzes the muscles. If it's accidentally injected into a vein or at somewhat too high of a dosage, you can have complications like botulism or death.
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Keep em trapped with fear of ugliness.
when ironically the shit is making most of them uglier.
like, what the fuck is this even?
https://www.thelist.com/1784977/kristi-noem-unrecognizable-throwback-pic-before-plastic-surgery/
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I’m perfectly fine with looking my age. I have earned every day of my age, dammit!
yep. I'm not aged, but my body shows the miles, and I have zero concern about the people who judge looks. I clean up nicely a few times a year.
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I answered higher up, but sunscreen (I use mineral sunblock but the Korean chemical sunscreens are really good too) in the morning, and Retin-A (prescription 0.1%) at night are for sure the two best things you can do to keep your skin in good shape. Consistency really pays off. Even if you sometimes forget the sunscreen - putting it on day after day with a few misses is better than using it only when you think you need it.
Men's face skin is slightly thicker than women's but otherwise the same, and superficially the same.
Appreciate the response. I did search for a routine earlier and have a Retinol cream on the way. I also found a recommendation for eye cream as well so I’ll give that a try too. I forgot about the Korean sunscreen options as I read on Lemmy a while back that (in general) they tend to be of higher quality than anything domestic.
