I know this thread may be a bit weird but I just had to share lol. My cousin is 26 (only 6 months younger than me) and just announced that she´s going to start looking for a doctor to get botox injected in her forehead in the next few months.
Now, most people´s first reaction would be - 26, no way that´s too young! But I get why she wants it, I know her appearance is very important to her, and at her age her face is really starting to look harsh and definitely older than normal. We stood in front of a mirror next to each other, and the differences in our faces are shocking.
She´s been a heavy smoker since her teens (1-2 packs a day!), used to frequent tanning beds or lay out in the sun with no SPF on her face at all (she´s got a lot of freckles/sunspots too, even on her eyelids) and has been working as a bartender for years (so that means 2nd hand smoking, late nights and stress). She also naturally does a lot of facial expressions when she talks, that´s why her wrinkles are mostly expression lines because of the way she wrinkles her forehead when she talks and the nasolabial folds from sucking on cigarettes lol
So what does everybody think about this? I think it´s sad that she has been treating her skin & body so badly for years, but if I was in her shoes I´d probably get botox too. It may seem vain to do this, but would you want to have an old face at 26? Her mom has been a heavy smoker since her teens as well, and she has really deep lines at 45, so you know it´ll only get worse for my cousin. Of course I keep telling to her to stop smoking, but you know how that goes when somebody is addicted. At least she recently started wearing SPF on her face daily, so that´s a start.
I think if it was me I´d probably get botox too, even if 26 is just so young to start with all of this. Plus, if you get little amounts of botox when you notice strong expression lines (even if they appear at such a young age, for some even younger than my cousin!) you can keep them at a minimum for many years. Once they´re very deep and have been for years, it seems to be much harder to get them smoothed out again.
Now, most people´s first reaction would be - 26, no way that´s too young! But I get why she wants it, I know her appearance is very important to her, and at her age her face is really starting to look harsh and definitely older than normal. We stood in front of a mirror next to each other, and the differences in our faces are shocking.
She´s been a heavy smoker since her teens (1-2 packs a day!), used to frequent tanning beds or lay out in the sun with no SPF on her face at all (she´s got a lot of freckles/sunspots too, even on her eyelids) and has been working as a bartender for years (so that means 2nd hand smoking, late nights and stress). She also naturally does a lot of facial expressions when she talks, that´s why her wrinkles are mostly expression lines because of the way she wrinkles her forehead when she talks and the nasolabial folds from sucking on cigarettes lol
So what does everybody think about this? I think it´s sad that she has been treating her skin & body so badly for years, but if I was in her shoes I´d probably get botox too. It may seem vain to do this, but would you want to have an old face at 26? Her mom has been a heavy smoker since her teens as well, and she has really deep lines at 45, so you know it´ll only get worse for my cousin. Of course I keep telling to her to stop smoking, but you know how that goes when somebody is addicted. At least she recently started wearing SPF on her face daily, so that´s a start.
I think if it was me I´d probably get botox too, even if 26 is just so young to start with all of this. Plus, if you get little amounts of botox when you notice strong expression lines (even if they appear at such a young age, for some even younger than my cousin!) you can keep them at a minimum for many years. Once they´re very deep and have been for years, it seems to be much harder to get them smoothed out again.