Topic: botox

Nicole Kidman Finally Admitted She Got Botox, And It’s Really Disappointing

Nicole Kidman Finally Admitted She Got Botox, And It's Really Disappointing

Nicole Kidman told an Italian newspaper that she used to get Botox, but “got out of it” and can finally move her face again. The knee-jerk response is to laugh at the admission: Her tight, expressionless face didn’t keep the secret well, despite her years of denying any kind of cosmetic surgery. But snickering at her regrets about aging in Hollywood is exactly what makes women feel like they need to secretly alter their faces, and feel ashamed to discuss what they’re doing (and why). And unfortunately, Kidman brushed past conversations about any of that–and talked about sunscreen. More »

Injectable Cosmetic Fillers Make Aging Skin Cells Act Young Again

Injectable Cosmetic Fillers Make Aging Skin Cells Act Young Again

A recent study from the University of Michigan found that creating a youthful environment for your skin cells to live in can “wake up” aging skin cells, causing them to produce more collagen and boosting the overall plumpness of thinning skin. Awesome! So how do we create such a skin environment? Oh. By injecting our skin with a dermal filler such as Juvederm or Resylane. More »

Kelly Ripa Knows It’s Time To Get More Botox When Her Kids Notice She Has Emotions

Kelly Ripa Knows It's Time To Get More Botox When Her Kids Notice She Has Emotions

Kelly Ripa follows all the rules of great health: She drinks water, she works out, and she doesn’t eat too much. But in a recent interview with In Touch, she also bravely admitted that she’s got a beauty secret: Botox. Which, she says, she really, really likes a lot. And she always knows it’s time to go back under the needle when, she explains, her kids notice that she’s starting to frown. More »

Jenny McCarthy, Anti-Vaccination Queen, Really Loves Botox

Jenny McCarthy, Anti-Vaccination Queen, Really Loves Botox

Jenny McCarthy is widely credited as one of the most vocal advocates for the anti-vaccine movement, following her son’s diagnosis with autism. McCarthy cites mercury in vaccines as the reason (though the doctor she initially cited has long since been deemed a fraud by the medical community)–but, apparently, the actor and model has no problem injecting toxins into her own skin, in the form of Botox. Huh. More »

Kate Walsh Tells Fellow Actresses ‘Stop F*cking Up Your Faces’

Kate Walsh Tells Fellow Actresses 'Stop F*cking Up Your Faces'

In addition to posing nude for the March cover of Shape magazine, Kate Walsh is continuing to expose her ideals of real beauty, and we have to say, we love it! While twitterland was abuzz last night with tweets about Jennifer Lopez‘s nipple, Angelina Jolie‘s right leg, who was wearing what, and who look hot or not, Walsh was busy tweeting her own thoughts about how her fellow actresses should look. It’s a bit harsh, but she makes an excellent point.
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Jennifer Aniston Admits To Fillers and Botox; Has Surprisingly Healthy Attitude Towards Beauty

Jennifer Aniston Admits To Fillers and Botox; Has Surprisingly Healthy Attitude Towards Beauty

Botox scares the crap out of me, but I always feel somewhat refreshed when a celebrity who looks supernaturally good for her age admits that she’s gone there. Which is why I think it’s pretty great that Jennifer Aniston admitted to having had injectable fillers, botox and spray tan, as well as getting her sunspots “zapped” off in her recent interview with InStyle. Because if she can admit that she doesn’t do it without the help of a good dermatologist (at the very least), then at least we’re all getting a little more honest about what it really takes to look like the “sexiest woman in the world.” More »

Botox Users Are ‘Vain,’ and Other Beauty Paradoxes

Botox Users Are 'Vain,' and Other Beauty Paradoxes

We have a bad habit as a society of setting up rigid, improbable beauty standards and then knocking people for trying too hard to live up to them. In a classic catch 22, the two biggest beauty messages women receive are to be thin, and to look as close to prepubescent as possible. But should we dare to admit that it takes effort to reach these goals, we’re labeled vain, silly and worse. More »

Decrease Wrinkles, Decrease Empathy?

Decrease Wrinkles, Decrease Empathy?

There’s a whole trove of communication research on how facial cues trigger emotions. The basic theory is that we automatically and unconsciously mimic the expressions shown on the face of someone we’re talking with and they mimic our expressions back at us, creating a feedback loop of facial expressions that triggers feelings of empathy in the brain.

But what if you’re physically incapable of this facial feedback loop because, oh, I don’t know… your face has been frozen in place by botulinum injections? More »

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