Ideal Bite

... you'd be surprised at the number of women for whom THAT is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous aging;

Or take arms against a sea of wrinkles,

and by opposing, end them...

OK, OK, I'll stop (but in truth, I really wanted to do the whole bloody speech).  So, that pesky botox question... once the domain of freaks and actresses, it's become an amazingly normal and commonplace procedure these days.  I know many, many women, normal, everyday women - not rich, not actresses, not even particularly into fashion and beauty - who have gone under the needle (and not to get a tat).

And the thing is - while I'm terribly opposed to the whole thing (and COMPLETELY disturbed by the freakish freeze-faces that formerly beautiful actresses have become - I mean, come on... don't these people have stylists telling them that those glacially arched eyebrows and lips that look like they just came out of a playground fistfight are not in any way reminscent of youth and beauty?).  Anyway - while I'm opposed to the botox thing, every so often, I "get" the attraction.  I catch a glance of myself in a window reflection or piece of video, and I wonder where the hell those forehead wrinkles came from and why on earth I look so angry all the time?  And I wish for a magic bullet.

But in the the end, I'm choosing to pass on the botox.  I kind of wanna know what my real face is going to look like someday.  So my current plan involves lots of moisturizer and hat-wearing, and a lot more smiling and sleep.  (And by a sleep to say we end the collagen loss and thousand natural lines that flesh is heir to).  ;)

-Heather... off to check out the schedule for the California Shakespeare Festival...

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