![]() Of course," he continues, "there are a little subset of women who get work that astonishes me, turning themselves into a parody of feminine beauty – the 'party tits', the 'ice-rink Botox', where your face is completely flat and shiny, but that, I think, is missing the point." "And using fillers expands the skin, so if you use a lot, then as it disappears you eventually need more to plump it out, so you get trapped in a Botox cycle. "When Botox is used with subtlety and finesse, the woman shouldn't look 'filled', she should just look less tired," he says. But the more you get, some women are finding, the older you look.īritish consultant plastic surgeon Norman Waterhouse thinks the year-zero face is the effect of fillers being overused. The move to look ageless though, rather than younger, is recent, with women today encouraged by some practices to get "preventative" Botox injections. In America, patients under 34 account for 20% of Botox procedures and chemical peels, and over 9,000 breast enhancement operations are carried out on girls aged 13 to 19. She later conceded that all the surgery makes "hugging" difficult. Last year actress Charice Pempengco, 18, had Botox to look "fresh" for her role in Glee, and reality star Heidi Montag, 24, famously had 10 procedures in 10 hours. ![]() There's nothing new in celebrities having cosmetic surgery, but the age at which they start is falling fast. Either they don't know what they look like, or they want to look like they've had something done." This used to be a much more prevalent idea on the west coast, but now you walk up Madison Avenue and you see these young girls with that cloned, cougar-like face. "There's this new mentality that if you do not look a little bit fake, then the surgeon hasn't done his job. "It's a matter of the right procedure on the wrong girl at the wrong time," New York plastic surgeon Douglas Steinbrech told W magazine. While few celebrities, Lohan included, will admit to having had cosmetic surgery, the surgeons themselves are outspoken. Rather than chase youthfulness with a scalpel, some seem to be choosing instead to fix their faces at a certain age (celebrity dermatologist Gervaise Gerstner suggests many women settle for 36) and maintain the look with injectable fillers and cosmetic treatments. Though traditionally cosmetic surgery has been used to make patients look younger, doctors are noticing a trend for women wanting to simply look "done". This isn't to say she looked old – as she bounced down the catwalk, her hair streaming behind her, she seemed to have transcended age – she looked like lamb dressed as mutton dressed as duck. Each change to her then 23-year-old face seemed to nod towards youth, but in fact imply age. Her lips were inflated to the size of a melting Twix, and her cheekbones looked as if they were climbing her jaw in order to dive to their death. She had a forehead so taut and shiny it looked like an iPhone 4. ![]() It wasn't just the clothes, though they were difficult, described by the Guardian as "the first that could be happily summed up on Twitter", it was Lohan's face. ![]() There were gasps from the front row and a thud of damp applause. On the Ungaro catwalk, jewel-toned bolero jackets and sequinned nipple tassels were shown, before the label's "artistic advisor" Lindsay Lohan appeared. L et me pinpoint the very moment the world first became aware of the ageless, year-zero face: it was under the Louvre at Paris Fashion Week as 2009 drew to a smoky close. ![]()
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