If you could have plastic surgery, would you?

leslisa

Would you fight the hands of time surgically? I've been thinking about whether I want to opt for it in the future or grow old with lines. It's much safer now and it's not nearly as expensive as I thought it was.

Lisa

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

Well seeing that I'm only 20, I'd say no. But if they came out with a drug that magically stopped hairloss and regrew hair...I'd be all about it.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

I'd get a penis reduction. Damn thing is to big..

Rocko · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject:

i would have a penis added on to each hip so i could do three chicks at once.

Jester · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject:

TravelJunkie · Guest

jumalian · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 7625 City: san diego

I agree DP. The ones that look so big that they look like they're gonna fall over, simply looks hideous.

TravelJunkie · Guest

The ones that are HUGE and dont have enough skin over them and have the strange grove around the base of them, now those are nasty. (i dont really know how to describe what i'm thinking) If i had a boob job and i came out looking like that i would demand the Doc fix them!

jumalian · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 7625 City: san diego

Any girl that gets 'em that big and think they look good, are blind of the truth.

Oh well...to each his/her own, I guess.

MissJade · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 486 City: Austin, TX

yeah, the ones that are so big that it stretches the skin and you can see the veins. gross. Plus, with the falls that I've been taking lately on the water, I'd definitely pop them.

TravelJunkie · Guest

i hear they are really hard to pop.

Jim M · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 2933

My mom just got her eyelids/forhead tucked, it got rid of the bags under and above her eyes and wrinkles on her forehead, it healed perfectly in 3 weeks. She said the pain was minimal, she just had to take lots of cortisone and eye drops and use lots of ice packs. The difference is very noticeable, very clean improvements, and its completely normal looking. It looks like it took 'years off her life' but it was just a mild surgery, nothing wrong with that!

Her health insurance covered a decent portion of it bc the doctor uses some loophole saying the excess skin can impair vision.

Excuse my lack of medical knowledge but my ex roommates dad is a big plastic surgeon in Cinci, his firm patented some new surgery where they remove the top layers of skin off your face and speed the healing process, it removes all the fineline wrinkles and gives you a cleaner complexion, less blemishes and pores.

Pretty interesting, and that stuff will keep getting more popular and more practical. I remember when bleached teeth was only for rich people!

Lindsay · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject:

Lipo--hell yeah, if I had the money, I'd do it tomorrow.
Facelift--no, but I may change my mind 20 years down the road. There's something off with faces that have been lifted IMO, too tight. Botox is a no because I like to be able to make a variety of facial expressions.
Breasts--I think mine are pretty great now and I don't want them to change, so I will be getting a lift after I've had kids. I think as long as you stay within your body proportions, work with what you've got, and get a good surgeon implants can look really good.

I think plastic surgery is a really personal thing and I don't believe it's just a vanity thing. If there's something about your body/face that you really don't like that impacts your confidence and there's something you can do to improve that, then why not?

Surgery is definitely better than it was, but it still has risks. My parents know a guy whose wife went in for an eye lift, there were complications and 24 hrs later she was dead. Shocked

adela · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 270

I have had my boobs done and so I would have to say yes. Smile

But I only went to a mid to full C and it looks really natural on me - my dr was really conservative too. No one can tell at all, which is how I like it - I didn't want it to look like canteloupes stuck on my chest - that just looks nasty IMO.

I am only 26 so no thoughts on facial work yet. Haven't ever thought about lipo because I have always been pretty petite. As you can tell, I am definitely not anti-plastic surgery! Very Happy

Boardbrat · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

I would have a boob job.....but I am already a C cup with no kids
I too hate the 100 lb girls with 200 lb boobs.............lol

Dragonlady8 · Guest

It all depends on the type of Surgery you're talking about,
Lindsay is right about the vanity thing too.
Just remember if you do decide on Cosmetic/Plastic Surgery, you're going to have to be willing to deal with the out come as well. There are no guarantees when it comes to altering your body.

Jim M, It's probably something along the lines of laser resurfacing.

I had augmentation done almost 3 yrs ago, I'm still not use to it either ( 34c/36b). Already had the definition but just didn't have the mass. It does make it alot nicer for clothes, but it's a pain in the upper back/neck. Can't work out much either.

churchy · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

adela, Lets see the pics..

Rocko · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

i second. now you have to do it. Razz

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

I 3rd that.

beckah · Newbie Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 19 City: adelaide

i rekon plastic surgerys crap coz half the time it looks worse than what it started off as. also i hate the feeling of anything unnatural on me

wake_chik · Outlaw Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 218 City: edmonton

It would be tough to wakeboard if you kept toppin over because your boobs were to big...I do enough face plants, I don't need surgery to help me out. Maybe in 20 years...but even then I am hoping to have a young, hot, beau around to keep me looking young.... Laughing

Dragonlady8 · Guest

wake_chik, Then you'd have built in Floatation devices Mr. Green

wake_chik · Outlaw Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 218 City: edmonton

Dragonlady8,

Laughing

very true. Might take all day learn how to control those things...and not keep staring at the sky.

BoardinDan · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

ive had breast reduction/enlargment i went from a 34DD to a 34B to a 36C... yeah yeah yeah i know what you are all thinking...wait that was in my dream last night... i need to stop reading all the spam in my inbox... gives me nightmares

Thor_717 · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

adela, Ill 4th that. were you in the monster tower calendar?

Jello John · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1936

Either breast implants or maybe removal of my left ear so that my head is symmetrical.

Thor_717 · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

Ok, now its time for the quiz... which are fake?

Thor_717 · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

mmmmmmmm, boobies!! Shocked

jason_ssr · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject:

I wouldnt do cosmetic surgery at all. You people are already perfect and do not require any changes (I know Ill probably get the rainbow smily for that one). Those who say it isnt vanity arent being honest. Clothes fitting differently is vanity as well as confidence boosting is. Im not saying a little vanity is bad either, but that IS the sole driving purpose being any cosmetic surgery that isnt for medical purpose. I think the risk is too high for the reward. And what is the reward? More looks in a club? Feeling like you look like what society says is attractive? I can honestly say that more than half the people I know who have had cosmetic surgeries have had complications, esp with implants. Dont do it, you guys are beautiful the way you are!!

And for those of you who have done it, this isnt a knock on you at all. You guys look great as well (obviously speaking in general since I havent seen most of you). I do believe that anything you gained from your $8k investment, you could have got for free.

Now, for some reason removal surgeries dont seem as intrusive as add-ons, in my mind. Just a wierd bias I guess.

Heck, Im so wierd about messing with the body, that I dont even have a single tatoo! Go figure....

K Dub, you think after your surgery you will have enough skin leftover for a pair of size 14 boots?

BoardinDan · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

thor its impossible to tell with stuff covering them and with out a flash light... did you know if you hold a flash light up to a boob with an implant you can see the implant or well the outline its cool

Dragonlady8 · Guest

fake
Need a better picture. Hair is in the way to see outline of breast
real
fake.

Dragonlady8 · Guest

jason_ssr, It's also called self-esteem.
And I didn't have to pay for mine either ( no strings attached)..... Wink

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

jason.....I should have enough skin left over for 3 pairs of boots. I'm hung like a walrus right now.
I'm shooting for the size of an average black guy. Laughing

jason_ssr · Posted: Mar 10, 2004 3:34 pm Post subject:

NICE

Well, Ive seen the rare pics of you, and you had no reason for low self esteem before hand, either. but, whatever works for you. Wink

Not that its any of my business and feel free not to answer, but did you have any of the complications like numbness/loss of feeling etc that many have?