“Rocket Sled” Facelift
March 29th, 2010
ABC’s The View did an amusing segment Friday morning about obvious plastic surgery. They poked fun at actors whose faces look tight and drawn as if they are on the acceleration phase of a rocket sled or Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson in the Areil Atom. The ladies also parodied actors with obvious breast surgery. It made me laugh.
None of this is really necessary. A face lift should refresh your physical appearance not change it. If you look “done,” I would suspect the skin has been pulled back, more than up. You can do this in a mirror by pulling your facial skin in front of your ears. If you pull straight up toward the top of your head, there will be a reduction of jowls and the neck skin will be tightened. This represents a natural result since you will still look like yourself. However, pull back toward your ears or the back of your head and immediately your facial appearance becomes distorted as the corners of your mouth are pulled and the outer corners of your eyes are lengthened. A distorted appearance is not the aesthetic I think is appealing, but Hollywood seems to embrace this extreme look.
The obvious breast surgery look is another aberration. Sadly, pop culture has helped change what is considered normal. Just like face lift surgery, a natural result does not look manufactured following surgery.
Next time, more on the causes of extreme results of facelift surgery.
Tara Reid: Poor Liposuction
October 14th, 2009
Photos of Tara Reid clearly reveal a poor result after liposuction or as she refers to it, “liposculpture.” According to her, she chose to have the surgery because she wanted a six pack. She was sold on the idea by her surgeon as she “shopped” around until she found someone who would do it for her.
Her appearance is consistent with removing as much fat as possible to reveal her rectus muscles. Sadly, this usually results in scarring of the under surface of the skin (dermis) to the muscle. Thus, causing the dimpled appearance of her tummy. This is extremely difficult to fix! Liposuction is not about how much you remove but how much you leave behind. I would venture to say that Tara started out with the amount of fat which should have been left after liposuction! So she was doomed to have this result. It is my guess that there will probably be a whole lot of “Photoshopping” or retouching of her photographs going on to correct her abdomen for the Playboy cover she is vying for!
I might add that she admits to having had liposuction of her abdomen because the poor result is so obvious. However, it is unusual to do this one area alone. A look at her inner and outer thighs shows asymmetry and depressions consistent with poor liposuction, as well. Sometimes it’s better to accept minor imperfections, when the likelihood of creating significant defects persists by doing ill-advised cosmetic procedures.
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