How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

It’s Bangs Or Botox Baby

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I am a 41 year old Mama doing the very best I can, and trying to look my best as I survive this crazy life in the Suburbs.  I thought I was holding it together okay.  Sure, I’m carrying a couple extra pounds, there is a little extra wiggle where there shouldn’t be, and more than a few laugh lines.  I’ve just been chalking it all up to a life well lived.  Then one very bright and beautiful morning, I noticed my forehead.  What the hell is going on there??  That bitch was giving me away!  A look in the review mirror quickly revealed that craters were developing, running parallel across what used to be a smooth and friendly face.  Eww.   It’s official, I have OLD WOMAN FOREHEAD.  Shiver.
Thanks to the startling discovery that I have been walking around town looking like a dried out apple, I began toying with the idea of bangs.  Sigh.  Bangs.  I hate me with bangs!  Never straight, always out of place, and often just begging to be trimmed….errrr by me.  Scissors and Stephanie equals disaster!  I can’t go back to bangs!  I have had to try to put the nasty bang thought out of my head.  Besides, have you seen how long my hair is?  Bangs are a huge commitment.  Not ready. 
So what’s a girl to do?  Face cream?  Pft.  Like that’s going to work. 
Then I overheard a girlfriend whispering about Botox.  Yep, I was all kinds of intrigued.  She spilled the dets on a “friend” who had been “doing it” for years!  Years?  No wrinkles!  Getting rid of the old woman forehead?  All selling points for me.  Suddenly I was noticing ads for Botox on the sides of busses, and hearing commercials screaming about the benefits of Botox on the radio.  I even heard Botox could help migraine sufferers!  Was this a sign? 
Then I ran into said “friend”. 
I tried to look her in the eyes when we spoke, I really did.  I couldn’t.  I couldn’t look away from her forehead!  Her lips moved, her cheeks moved, even her eyelids seemed to be in working order, but her forehead was all “plasticy”?  I couldn’t look away from her perfectly smooth, gorgeously wrinkle free, just not moving face.  She was too perfect. (insert jealousy font)
So what’s a girl to do?  When left with a decision between bad bangs or Botox? 
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Courtney Love vs. Jocelyn Wildenstein
Pictures borrowed from haironthebrain and healthmad.com
I don’t know, maybe I will start wearing hats?
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    • Comments

    2. Everyone, whether they are 14 or 41, has had a moment in the harsh day of light, about a skin imperfection. Embrace every wrinkle and every laugh line as proof of wonderful memories.

    3. i say embrace the wrinkles and just grow old gracefully. it’s what’s inside that counts anyway.

    4. First, I don’t believe in putting anything into my skin – just creeps me out. Secondly, you are and will be drop dead gorgeous for a long time! Moisturizing is the best thing you can do for your entire skin – wish I had done that in my early 40’s and earlier! So I do it now, religiously! 🙂

    5. I think it can be okay if it’s done right. There’s a video on youtube where actress Vanessa Williams explains she gets less amounts of botox so she doesn’t look weird and frozen.

    6. I duno… I don’t think there’s anything wrong with aging and having some wrinkles 🙂 I wouldn’t personally get botox… and I look like a child with bangs and can’t be bothered with always having to style them.