On the needle: about the fashion for injections
Beauty editor Tatyana Yakimova - on modern fashion for injections.
For ten years Tatyana Yakimova worked as a beauty director of L'Officiel, now she is the chief editor of TsUM magazine and beauty director of Sex & The City magazine, as well as columnist L'Officiel. He considers that the best friends of beauty are love, a smile and suitable cosmetics, and the worst enemy is despondency. |
Injections are serious. It was serious. I still remember how, 25 years ago, my mother used to take care of the pricks shown for health reasons. With hope in her voice, she asked the doctor: "Or maybe it will cost? Maybe pills?" Everyone knew: a shot is when there is no other way out. But it is in the so-called compulsory medicine. And medicine is optional - this is when you make injections for beauty. It is easy, effective, fashionable. Now it is even too fashionable.
With the help of injections, they remove wrinkles, improve the oval of the face, puff up lips, just smooth the skin. It is great that such an opportunity has appeared, but it is sad that everyone who is not lazy uses it. The age of Injection Victim is rapidly decreasing. Young girls borrow not only Chanel bags from their mothers, classic beige coats and loafers - they got hooked on adult cosmetology, not really understanding it and not needing it at all. What for? Why? Trend!
At first, the injections became a panacea for those who badly wanted to get rid of wrinkles, but were afraid of plastic surgery. The pioneer was Botox, a poison that paralyzes the muscle and smoothes the skin over it. Why not prick Botox if it eliminates wrinkles or folds in one fell swoop? Contraindications seem to be there, but if the doctors themselves cut themselves off, it means there is nothing to be afraid of. The so-called "Botox parties" became the apotheosis of botulinums: when the ladies of the world gathered for a glass of champagne and called one doctor for everyone.
In the meantime, ordinary doctors — who obviously envy the incomes of beauty doctors — began to sound the alarm: the consequences of regular injections of poison, which, anyway, gets into the bloodstream, so far too little is known. And we still have to think twenty times before deciding on that. In the meantime, younger girls hooked up with mature matrons for poison. And not only poison. Today, a twenty-five-year-old girl comes to a cosmetology clinic, where they can say with a serious look: "You are shown mesotherapy for complexion."
I'm not a prude. And not against innovation. But why improve the complexion with injections when you are only 25 years old? Do sports, spend the weekend in nature, get enough sleep, finally. Why let a syringe with a needle into your life (and into your own face), if there are no serious reasons for this? And who is really the engine of injection progress? Glossy market? Photoshop? Hollywood? Or the fear of age, which in our time does not torment, it seems, only babies in a wheelchair?
I have been writing about beauty injections for 15 years now, and the farther, the more sadly I am overcome. The obsession of modern women - young, beautiful, successful, educated - beauty shots becomes akin to drug addiction. I am not exaggerating: there is only one real addict in my environment, and the number of girlfriends and acquaintances hooked up on injections of Botox, hyaluronic acid, and various mesotherapeutic cocktails has exceeded one hundred. In this hundred, God forbid, twenty people who really not only had pronounced wrinkles, but suffered from them. The other twenty wrinkles just for the company - after all, we live in the twenty-first century! All other wrinkles do not. There is a bad complexion, not enough plump lips, the rudiments of a double chin, nasolabial folds. The disadvantages with which in the XXI century supposedly live impossible. Or is it possible?