darling they have approved medical grade silicone for cosmetic use. i had muscle pulled thru my lips and felt they were not full enough. so i had silicone pumped into them by my plastic surgeon here in nyc. i am so happy with the results.

and by the way i would be careful with having surgery out of the states. god forbid, what if something went wrong. do the doctors have insurance???

When they shot that through my veins, I said "bring on that surgery" and I'd do it again, it felt sooo good!

woo-hoo!
LAD, i hope you are doing well.
you made me think, perhaps it's not the surgery we are addicted to.

The surgery is definately not what they're addicted to. I think it is the rush of instant beauty (not so instant for others, but still not too far away for those with enough cash). Even still, I know people who would sell their souls to the devil for a quick fix.. provided he throws in some good herb just to sweeten the deal.
So, medical grade silicone has been approved, I have to do some research now..thanks for the insight!

hey caramel,
i wish surgery part I was here for you to read. there is a lot of info re: procedures and follow up care.
btw. i picked my surgeon because he had worked on 2 friends of mine and i liked how they turned out and i am very happy with mine.

I wish Surgery part I was still available as well. I'm sure as this forum fills up I will find some helpful info. but until then I'll just chill. I'm still young yet so tinkering can be put off a few years before the telltale sign of aging surface. Thanks for looking out though.

So LAD, I am out of the loop since I was in FLA for the holidays...so this inquiring mind wants to know what did you have done? You looked Susan Lucci-flawless I told you on Halloween (though she had some of the best work around too).

Please come to Chez next Wednesday, 1/22/03, to celebrate my @#$%%* birthday and I will share.

LAD, I had planned to go anyway since Poison Eve is doing a performance piece, but now I doubly have to go...we will chat!

I'm glad you asked Randella because I was trying to figure it out too. After LAD tells you then you tell me. It's going to be a big night! And speaking of "Chez". Last night I had to stare at Dresscode (Mike Ford) because he looks amazing. Everything is settling into place nicely. Then I took a picture so I could stare at that.

1. plastic surgery is not "instant" it's not like I took a pill and BLAMMO! I had a new set of tits, there is research to be done, planning and then the recovery time, which for some can be very painful ( note: this not said for sympathy) but, for me it was the excitment and the satisfaction of how happy I was with my alteration that I would/will have surgery.

2. I believe in plastic surgery for myself BECAUSE I love me and rather have the parts that don't please me, altered to MY satisfaction. It is not to change WHO I am, but in some ways it is , I am happier when I change the things about myself that I can, be it a bad habit, 10 lbs., saggy breasts, or a thin lip.
Kisses

Gi-Gi

[This message was edited by gigi on 01-24-03 at 09:55 PM.]

Ok, what is going on with Lara Flynn-Boyle? She has had so much work done that she is now looking like the missing triplet to the Barbie Twins! To me it looks like she has had all excess skin/fat removed from her face (this can not be good ageing?) and her lips pumped up....and has dropped down to about 45lbs. This obervation is a result of her appearance on the Golden Globes, where it must be said, there was a room full of the best plastic surgery known to man or beast.
Oh, and where to start with her outfit!!

Here! Here! Our Jimmy! I totally agree... although Joan Rivers eyes are so pulled now she looks like a Siamese cat ....bizarre.
I just think that the new look is very praying mantis thin... too too thin... nobody has breasts anymore - Debra Messing has a Xylophone not a chest... bring back bodies like Marilyn! (monroe not Mason!)

Our Anna Nicole! I'm with you. Bring back BIG TITS!

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/bestdoctors/articles/02/cosmeticsurgery/todolist1.htm

Great practical info and costs about ALL surgery stuff

Sweetie Darling? Does Daddy need surgery?

He's got greek blood...so he doesn't look his age at all, do you Daddy?

But have you gotten a load of HSquares2? The show never fails to fascinate me...Burt Reynolds looked demonic with those hiked up eye brows (there have to be scars under that toup). Poor Ellen DeGeneres in center square too, she needs to have those puffy eyes fixed, which despite expert makeup app.ique, just look tea bags under her eyes. Or maybe is it a new lesbian look?

....Sometimes you have to change your shell to represent what is inside of it, such as what i did. Although joan rivers and cher are old as moses, their spirts certainly aren't..and that goes for sure. So, ya had to change the outside to fit the inside . That's all. I just had a nose job , chin implant, lips redone, and facial lipo in the last month, by the best dr in miami beach. FYI- It was also to look more like a boy, less like a trannie....ANd if a strager asked me if i had work, i'd lie.My busniess is mine. For all i care i was who i looked at in the mirror the whole time, i just had to make it that way. Everyone i've encountered said i just looked like i was supposed to have looked in the first place, who knew me- a beautiful person with a kind heart who felt that things didn't add up visually for me.People dye their hair blonde to look sunny and more lively, drags dress in glamour to show you're glamours- you have to let the rest of the world know- and i sawed and shoved shit into my face to look beautiful, beacuse that's who i am on the inside.And damn it, i'm not like everyone else...so i have every right to show'em. Joan rivers is a bitch,a diva, a crude goddess- a trouper threw alotta shit.....she certainly doesn't have the mouth of most 60 or 70 year olds, so why does her face have to look like one? Genius, sheer genius....And all that work someone like myself could due with that face with makeup......Don't read me back to hard, i'm sensitive- you evil queens i love so much- Mason Grace (You know, Grace... the diva who left...be back soon, i'm broke. )

So at Bar'do on Saturday, and I ran into Fallon, who looked beautiful. Really beautiful. I said so to her, and she replied "you cut your hair" which made me chuckle, and I was like "no, I had my nose done, but everyone has said that to me recently" and she slyly quipped "I had more than my nose done." Ephemerally radiant she was, and amazing work.

On that same subject though, it is now 3 months since my nose job, and just like the post above, I feel the same. It certainly has made me more popular shall we say. Anyway, I wonder if it truly is the simple physical change or from the inside changes that then radiate outwardly or a combo of both. But, I got totally spooked last week at work by a patient! A 76 year old single woman we saw in November (right before I went out for my surgery), and we diagnosed her with cancer, but she had to get her other medical problems addressed before she could proceed with her cancer surgery, so she finally came back to set things up. After I was done with explaining things to her, she looked at me straight in the eye and said "you changed your face." It took me a moment to compose an answer to that one (because the vast majority would never know I had anything done unless I say something- most are like "you cut your hair, right?"), and I told her that indeed I had had my nose done.

She spooked me and I was spooked that she did so as well!

While chitty chatting with my friend who cuts my hair, she and I were talking silicone (of which she has had a touch or two here and there)...hmmm, and I starting thinking- what about filling in these laugh lines? However, I heard there was a new drug, not FDA approved though, that is used in Europe and South America that is long-lasting but without the dangers of silicone, and people bring it over and have the local dermatologists inject it....hmm, have to do some research on this. Anybody know anything?