@crimrose: So almost every actress/Hollywood celebrity who has had Botox has had botched Botox, because to me, the majority of these stars look like they have fake, platstic skin and unmovable features?
Botox fails to look natural to me, if a 40/50-something year old woman uses it (or whatever other product/procedure may be used) and has a line free face because honestly, how many women of that age are line-free anyway?
On the topic of going to cheap foreign "surgeons"…yeah, I know about that. This might sound harsh, but honestly, I do not feel bad for women who do these things and then experience negative consequences of doing said procedure. It's called
common-fucking-sense. I mean just take some time to think about it: why would decent surgeons be advertising their services with a free holiday, in cheap brochures or on weird web sites? If it's so trust-worthy, why don't we offer patients needing heart surgery a free, cheap holiday with their triple bypass at a discounted price? Two for the price of one, yay! It just does not make sense to me why people would think this is a better choice rather than saving up more money and going to trusted surgeons.
You can't just not do things because of risk.
You can if it is completely unnecessary. Your surgery may not have been mandatory, as my TMJ treatment was not and as my braces were not, but if you did not do something earlier, then, as you say, the problem would become more noticable and even cause further physical problems. In that case the surgery, though optional is sort of "necessary" in terms of preventing further complications that mess with the quality of your life and all the messy feelings that come when you feel shit about yourself due to said increased problems. Even if the surgery was not necessary when you were 15, the logical option was to fix the problem before it became so bad that you had no choice but to undergo surgery and that makes sense. Despite the risks, it is better to do things sooner rather than cause yourself further issues over the years. Prevention rather than cure, you know? I've done such things too, as I said above.
But going for cosmetic/plastic surgery out of complete vanity is something that can be completey avoided, imo because I feel the issues that need to be fixed are not physical, but psychological. I dislike my body and sure, I could save money and go get a boob job and maybe give myself new cheekbones and lip fillers etc. I'll probably feel happy with myself in a shallow manner for a while, but those feelings of low self-esteem and unworthiness and "I'm so fucking ugly" will eventually rear their ugly head because I think, such issues cannot simply be fixed with surgery. Surgery fixes the cracks superficially, but they come back and then you fix them superficially again and again, but you're not really getting to the core of your problems.
I hope that makes sense and I don't want it to seem like I am attacking you, in actual fact, I agree with the last point you brought up, but I'm just trying to uh…show why undergoing the risk of surgery is not always worth it because there are things no amount of surgery fixes, no matter what our mind may try to tell us.
