Botox does not give a frozen face when done well. (Surprised? can you look surprised?)

Posted on February 3, 2011

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About a decade ago when botox first came out it was so taboo.  “Who would do that?”  “Inject that stuff  into your face?”  “It makes you look freaky / frozen / etc.”  It conjures up images of Nicole Kidman and her Oscar acceptance speech where she was “so surprised” to get the award (said with a face which could not show anything, much less surprise.) 

I remember being at a dinner party about 10 years ago with a bunch of people, and the men said, “I can’t believe people do botox.”  I was there with at least two friends I know did botox, as I injected their botox.  “Really?”  “Oh I can tell when someone does.”  “Has anyone at this table done it?”  My friends were sweating bullets.  They had us raise our eyebrows, smile, frown.  “No.”  Well, I wasn’t going to out my friends, but I have no issue outing myself.  “You are wrong.”  Then they tried unsuccessfully to guess who had done it.  “I have done it.  Can you tell me where?”  Again, I had to raise my brows, frown, smile.  Even knowing I had done it, they couldn’t figure out where it was injected.

When botox is done well it doesn’t look like it was done.  You can still raise your brows (just not as high. So you are surprised, not SURPRISED.)  Same goes for those wrinkles between your brows. (Your kids will thank you for not being able to muster that look of YOU DID WHAT?!, it will be more of a you did what?)  Around the eyes, it is a no brainer.  I see no benefit when I smile to see those crows feet running all the way down my cheek.  I still get enough crinkle to have smiling eyes…. just not enough to look my age.

There is an art to injecting botox.  More is not always better.  Pick your botox injector wisely.  Sometimes a few light wrinkles are better than a sea of frozen face.  At least I think so.