Growing up, I always used to watch my mum doing her makeup.
She would use endless wrinkle creams and always pull at her facial lines
convinced she was looking old. She is quite a young mum as it is, having me
when she was 18 so I have never really thought of her has ‘old’ especially when
most of me growing up she modelled. I come from a long line of beauty obsessed
woman and when my great grandmother had a stroke she started applying bright
red circle blusher to her cheeks and bright blue eye shadow to her eyes. This
was because she couldn't see very well and she needed to know she had makeup
on, bless her. I always used to look at my mum completely confused as to why
she was so bothered about lines on her face, in my eyes she was beautiful and needn't worry. I always told myself that when I grow up, I will age gracefully
and not worry about such small things... Yeah that happened! NOT! And here I
am, about to write about my first Botox experience (with pictures) at just the
ripe old age of 24.
So a lot of people think I am crazy for even thinking of
Botox at my age, and believe me I have thought long and hard about whether or
not it was the right thing to do. The thought process started about 10 months ago
when I realised applying gel eyeliner was becoming a lengthy task. If you
follow a lot of online beauty people including YouTuber’s, bloggers or Instagram
and see, on a daily basis fresh eyes and perfectly lined eyeliner it can become
frustrating (really trying not to sound superficial here, i know there are
bigger fish to fry than perfect eyeliner... i have a problem, clearly). But
anyway, at the risk of sounding far too vain, I would always think.... “Why
don’t i have tight eye skin? I am only 24”
One of the things people don’t know about Botox, which I didn't know myself until recently is that starting at a young age is more effective
than waiting until you have the deep wrinkles. Because I have had it in my
early twenties (yeah I am not quite mid twenties yet, hanging on to that!) I
have completely eradicated the wrinkles from my forehead. This means my skin is
kind of frozen smooth and the wrinkles don’t have a chance to deepen, so
effectively, my skin can’t train the wrinkles to stick, its kind of the
opposite. As long as I have Botox in my face, my skin is trained to stay
smooth. Basically its freezing my youth as opposed to reversing my old... if
that makes sense? Which is a lot easier to do.
I paid £250 for 3 areas, I got my crows feet (beside my
eyes), in between my brows and my forehead. Altogether it was 18 injections. I
will need it again in 4 month, then 8 month and then its only yearly
maintenance. I would advise doing your research first and finding somebody
reputable. An actual GP does mine and my mums. She came into our home and she
was full of knowledge and was very reassuring.
OK, on to the pictures.
Having the ability to delete photos is a godsend but doesn't help when I am trying to show you what I looked like before. I can make myself look any way I like on the internet so I have really tried to find some pictures where my skin isn't as tight as I would have liked.
I did however take the next one purposefully for this blog... I am pulling my sexy face. Note the slight wrinkles :-\
The next is about 4 days after the Botox... Its a comparison. I have to say at this point I was having light sensitive headaches (that was the only side effect)
About a week after the Botox, the muscles between my eyebrows had froze, but the outer muscles did not. Resulting in the next picture. At this point I was paranoid to death about looking like an angry beaver all the time. (My face wasn't constantly like this, this was me raising my brows. Thank god!) SERIOUSLY SCARY!
But now after about 10 days it has fully done its job... I think.
OK maybe the photo on the right is a joke :( I will never look that young again... Sad face!
This one is from pretty much now, in all my unmakeuped glory! I am really straining my eyebrows here!
I hope this has helped some of you in deciding whether or not botox is right for you? I am so happy with the results. It has made me far more vain. But that can only mean good blogging right? I am trying out a few other things which I shall be posting about very soon. I am not going to be a regular blogger. I want substance as opposed to quantity. I hope you can appreciate that and if you would like to follow then dooooo it!!! I will love you greatly!
Love haidee xxx
P.S I cannot be bothered to jazz up the blog. Would it bother anybody if I just left it how it is?
Ive been considering it too haha, at 21 that sounds crazy but i dont like to get line when i frown, i'm a wimp with needles though!
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ReplyDeleteHi Haidee,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the post. I just turned 26 a couple months ago and I've been considering getting Botox on my forehead but I was worried that I might be "too young". The lines that I have are minor but I would still like them removed and also would like to prevent any future wrinkles. I've been reading about it and it was nice to see photos and hear about your experience! Thank you for sharing! :)
-Amanda