Thursday, April 24, 2008

Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty


Reality check on the war on wrinkles: Looking younger or just weirder? Plastic surgeons are among the first to admit that the pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty. “We’ve all seen some bizarre-looking results … the fish-lip syndrome, the over-Botoxed celebrity who looks like her forehead is made of porcelain, the brow lift that leaves somebody in a perpetual state of surprise … or eyelid lifts that are so extreme that somebody ends up looking like a cadaver,” says Dr. Joseph Gryskiewicz, a cosmetic surgeon with a practice outside Minneapolis and a spokesperson for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.See a slide show of how celebrities are aging. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - 1-800-PetMeds