Super Botox Me

Anybody get Botox for Christmas?  I ask because apparently Simon Cowell gave Botox to his friends as gifts: story here

With my time off for the holidays, I had free time to mess around online.  I came across this documentary, Super Botox Me, which was made for BBC America.  The journalist is 39 and investigates to see what happens when she undergoes nonsurgical cosmetic procedures.

This is the preview:

She definitely looks tired and a bit sad so I suppose she could look better with  injectables.  In the full version there is a segment where model agents and magazine people pick her apart.  It's awful!  I think they would find many more faults with me.

As part of her travels she goes to Dr Frederic Brandt in New York.  Apparently he does Madonna's Botox.  He seems to have some interesting and advanced techniques, including injecting into the neck muscles to tighten the jaw line.  This is called a Nefertiti neck lift in some places.  Would be a bit nervous having that one done!  For some reason I can't find the link when I try to embed it right now, but it's here.  He seems nice and I'd love to go to him because his work on other people seems good...but somebody should definitely handcuff him the next time he tries to do anything with his own face.

This is the worst bit though-Fraxel around her eyes:

The video here doesn't show her when she gets back to her hotel that night and has blood streaming down her face!  She also had to get up regularly during the night to change dressings on her face.  Her eyes did look better after it but it was definitely not an easy option.

You can see the full episode here by downloading the Veoh viewer.  Seems to be fine.

It was an interesting documentary.   She obviously felt she could do with being improved from the beginning-it's not like she thought she was perfect and suddenly got forced into feeling insecure.  She did start to get a taste for it after a few injections though.  I could kind of see how!  She had unlimited funds and could go to whoever she wanted.  They all promised her great things.  It would be easy to get caught up in it.  She hadn't even seen the results of her forehead botox before she was rushing off for some in her neck.

She looks better at the end, definitely.  Most of it is really subtle though, except for her frozen forehead.  She had around 50 injections and Fraxel to achieve it all though.  I wonder how much could have been achieved by doing a different set of injections or less.  How different would she look if she just wore some good makeup?

Still think I'd get a little bit of filler if I had the money...