Stacey Solomon: I’ve tried Botox – but this is why I’ll NEVER inject poison into my face again
I RARELY go for facials, but decided to treat myself after weeks of piling on fairy make-up during a stint in the theatre.
My skin was feeling tired, spotty and clogged up. It needed a break from the thick foundation and glitter overload.
So I found a little place near the theatre and headed off for a pamper in between shows.
When I got there, I lay on the bed whilst the therapist took a microscopic look at my skin.
The first thing she said to me was, “Have you started using Botox yet?”
I was instantly taken aback by the question because firstly, I wasn’t sure why she was asking and secondly, I wasn’t sure what she meant by it.
I told her I hadn’t, but explained how I’d tried it once and hated the way I lost the expression in my forehead. It also gave me an extremely shiny, almost sweat-like, complexion, which was not a good look.
The therapist looked at me in horror. I’m not joking! She looked at me as if I’d just said I’d killed a kitten.
The words that came out of her mouth next, honestly, left me in utter disbelief.
“You really need to start thinking seriously about having Botox. If you don’t, it will be too late for you and you’ll never be able to fix the deep set wrinkles and smile lines because they will have gone too far!”
Just to make it clear, I do not have a problem with anyone who decides to have Botox.
It’s an individual’s choice to do whatever they please to their own bodies. However I have a MASSIVE problem with the notion that people think it’s okay telling young people that they NEED Botox and fillers.
What’s disgraceful is that any Tom, Dick and Harry can open up a clinic and administer Botox.
But guys, we don’t know what type or grade of Botox they’re injecting and lots of these people have no idea about the biology of the human face. I don’t know about you, but that scares the s**t out of me.
How is it legal that you can walk into a beauty salon and be injected by somebody who could know nothing about what they’re doing? No.
Just recently there was an article about a woman who was left PARALYSED by dodgy Botox.
But on top of that, why are we being made to feel that ageing is the worst possible thing that could ever happen to a person? WE ARE ALL GETTING OLDER!
Just because you’ve been Botoxing since your twenties doesn’t magically reduce your biological age.
We are all ageing and eventually we are all going to end up in the same place. It is okay to get older and look older. It doesn’t make you any less of a human being or any less beautiful.
Ageing is a natural process and quite frankly if you get old enough to adorn a beautiful array of wrinkles all over your face then you’re extremely lucky as far as I’m concerned. What a privilege.
I’m hoping to look like Rose Dewitt Bukater Calvert from The Titanic when I’m older.
She’s my skin goals. Ooh and anthropologist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, she is my life goals.
But, I digress. The bottom line is we should NOT be pressuring young people into dangerously administering poison into their faces by giving them the fear of ageing.
We should be celebrating ageing and the privilege.
When I grow up, I don’t want to look like anyone but me, with some deep set and fine line wrinkles all over my face showing that my smile filled a wonderful, long life that I’ve been privileged enough to enjoy.
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