Cosmetic surgery?

[dulce_buttercup]

Has anyone had cosmetic surgery (tummy tuck, breast augmentation, nose job etc...) Not gender related, just cosmetic. If so, what prompted you to go under the knife, and would you do it again?

I have had 4 babies and my tummy is... for lack of a better description... gross! I've considered a tummy tuck eventually, but I don't know if I will ever actually do it. What's your take on it?

~Dulce(f)

[lysalysa]

Has anyone had cosmetic surgery (tummy tuck, breast augmentation, nose job etc...) Not gender related, just cosmetic. If so, what prompted you to go under the knife, and would you do it again?

I have had 4 babies and my tummy is... for lack of a better description... gross! I've considered a tummy tuck eventually, but I don't know if I will ever actually do it. What's your take on it?

~Dulce(f)

My feeling is this...If you want it, and you can afford it, and it will make you feel better about yourself, then for Pete's sake, go for it! This year, before I hit 43, I will have 3 facial procedures done...(lips, eyelids, and some Botox...)

By the age of 45 I will have the rest of my work done.

I've always been very vane about my appearance, and I can't stand "fussing" about myself...I want to keep what I have (or that I've recently had...)

The way I look at it is this. I am pretty young by "old person" standards, and I will be competing in the workforce for much longer than I expected. My spouse is almost 6 years older than me, but looks like he is about 5 years younger, so hell yes, I plan to purchase some really expensive makeup.

Arc and I have talked about this for as long as we've been together, and he knows that when I am ready the procedures will start...(The first 3 will happen after the 1st of the year...I will come back from my vacation in January looking really, Really, REALLY fucking rested...)

I am not trying to make myself something new (I plan to keep my trademark nose, crooked smile, and slightly long front teeth)...I am just going to keep being as young as I feel.

What's my take? If it bothers you, and it is simple to fix, you should do what will make you happy.

[mistyblue9802200]

Has anyone had cosmetic surgery (tummy tuck, breast augmentation, nose job etc...) Not gender related, just cosmetic. If so, what prompted you to go under the knife, and would you do it again?

I have had 4 babies and my tummy is... for lack of a better description... gross! I've considered a tummy tuck eventually, but I don't know if I will ever actually do it. What's your take on it?

~Dulce(f)



If it will make your quality of life betta & you can afford it then go for it but i know it can be very dangerous, make sure you weigh the pro's & con's up also if i could afford it i would have a wee*boob* uplift(y);)




(g)16Days Till Christmas(g)

[dulce_buttercup]

I dont know if I'll go through with it, and right now, I can't afford it. But some day it sure would be nice to have that flat sexy tummy and maybe even the perky ones I had in my 20's. ;)

Dulce(f)

[DapperButch]

I think that if it makes people feel better about themselves (not that they are necessarily feel bad about themselves to begin with), then they should do it.

I don't see anything negative in that choice.

[msmoxie]

it terrifies me but i'm chicken that way....always thinking about what if's.
but....if i could get over that, and if i could afford it, i might eventually do a few things....brow lift, botox, and maybe a wee lipo.

but it *totally* grosses me out to think of how these procedures are done!! not sure i could get over that. and i'd have to really quiet the parts of me that say you can't fool mother nature...but then again, mother nature is not in my mirror going "WTF is *that*?"

even so, i'd like to work on the other end--i find plastics fascinating in a frankenstein-ey way--soooo cool!

what i'd really like to do is make my hair follicles grow and HOLD ONTO hair. if not on my scalp, at the very least my eyebrows and eyelashes. alas. they can't do that.

woe is me. (insert violin music here)
:)

[Pinksqueak]

It isn't quite the same, but I've had Lasik performed and it was one of the best personal investments I've ever made. It was purely cosmetic, though. I hated wearing glasses.

Upon highschool graduation, my father offered to pay for a breast augmentation (Florida has that effect on the psyche), but I declined. Not that I didn't think about it. But I realized at the time I would be doing it solely for the physical admiration of others and not thinking about the maintenance needed down the road or how it might affect child-rearing decisions. But maybe after having a kid or two...

xosqueak, ibtc

[OBB Orginal BadBoi]

I got a BA mainly for a pay raise becuz I worked as a dancer and it worked out well to get me where I wanted that is working for myself doing my own thing nowadays. I don't regret the results of my choices, but as much as I've grown found of faulting my new breast and generally have always loved breast. Sometimes I miss the way they were becuz I loved my body the way it was just the same if not alittle more becuz it was me who I naturally was/am if that makes sense and now that I'm not a dancer I don't know if having them makes sense and it'll always be a reminder becuz it's nothing I can undo unless I want to leave real big scars I don't want.

Anyhow there are other things about them I could do without like having worn heels as high as I danced in they have taken it's toll on my back which I don't really feel as pain becuz my body is so used to it and I have a high tolarance, but when people try to message me I generally want to push them off of me becuz when they start to release the tension in my back is when I really start feeling the pain. I noticed instantly the difference after i got it done how much heavier it was on my ribcage and it took a while for me to move around as gracefully as I was used to. It a way it helped forced my body to thicken up alittle 10lbs like I always wanted, but it wasn't weight my body really needed and I know when I get older even though I'll always have bionic boobs I'm gonna have serious back problem at which at that point I might take them out becuz scar or not to have serious back problems when my body isn't as stronge as it is now then it'll be time to let it go.

However with that said and the fact I don't know if I would have had a BA if I wasn't a dancer becuz it wasn't a matter of body image for me if anything I loved my body just as it was I still feel that for many people what improves thier self body image is a good thing.

I know I personally plan to pay for my mom to have some sort of skin tighting/face lift and I think nothing more of it then her dying the grey out. Not because I'm uncomfrontible with my mom aging, but I know she's not ready to go grey and if she can do something to maintain her skin she will. Plus she works selling insurance and yes her appearence plays a role as a sale person exspecailly as a woman as it's just a fact of life.

My bff who is a guy is going grey and he's my age and it's very premature and stress related, but as my bissness partner and wing man I told him that he has to lose 10lbs and atleast shave his face becuz in his 30s there is no need for him to turn into Santa Cluas. If I could I would zap 1/2 his bear like hairs in his sleep and throw him into a gaint hamster wheel for him to exercize for 30 mins a day while replacing his cola addiction with water becuz it's not just about his looks affecting anything(even though he think I want to turn him into a woman for me), but damn I want him to live a long, healthy, and sucessful life. Which mean I throw out shirts that have holes in them, I'll slip in hair dyke into his shampoo, and I make sure he doesn't die of a heartattack or suffer forever from acid reflex that he spends days at a time throwing up over his love of coke cola.

As for cheating mother nature---no1 can, but Susan Lucci still looks almost the same as when I 1st started watching AMC as a child so I'ld say 20 yrs of surgery hasn't hurt her any and it's definately a requirement in her career.

As fot risk nowadays I believe the risk or alot lower for the most part and it depends on what some1 is choicing to have done. I know my BA I basicailly at 1st felt like a ton of bricks were on my chest for a few mins between waking up and the pain relievers kicked in, but after that I slept and after a few weeks and minor bruises it was done. I freaked out at 1st becuz I wasn't used to it and they were a bit swollen-but after they fell and they became mine as I got used to having them I was ok.

[Belles]

Yes I've had a breast implant. Only the one. I fell off a horse as a 14year old and from then on it did nothing. Zilch. Just stayed the same whilst my other one blossomed. I fell on a jump pole (ow) so it must of damaged the tissue.

Anyway, obviously it's made my life better because I couldn't get bras to fit, couldn't wear swim wear or feel comfortable in going out tops without padding myself up - and even then I was worried it would fall out.

I wanted to join the Navy and knew communal showers were a must so I went to the Doctor and explained my situation, now we aren't talking a slight difference (like everyone has) it was a huge difference, my surgeon described it as a deformity (ta!).

So, yes I feel more confident now and even go bra less.

HOWEVER, it REALLY hurts. Actually think about what they are doing to you - they sliced my breast open, stuck a spatula inside, ripped the muscle off of my breast 'wall' and then stuck a plastic tit inside me. Not nice. You wake up feeling like a bus is balancing on your chest.

All surgery comes with risks, it was the first surgery I had as an adult and I found out that I was seriously allergic to anesthetic and co-codamol so it was a vomit-tastic time.

If you decide to do it two words - arnica and bio oil. Smother yourself it in.

[dulce_buttercup]

they sliced my breast open, stuck a spatula inside, ripped the muscle off of my breast 'wall' and then stuck a plastic tit inside me. Not nice. You wake up feeling like a bus is balancing on your chest.



ouch! 8-)

[butchgorilla]

I have mixed feelings on the subject. I think being a butch maybe my perspective is a bit different. Now, I hate making sweeping generalizations - please, I don't want to derail the thread by saying this - but maybe femmes are more likely to consider some types of cosmetic surgery than butches. I could be way off here, and actually this isn't really the point of my post, so let me get back to that.

I will mention that I have never had the desire for any sort of cosmetic surgery, except breast reduction/removal, but that is related to gender identity and so also not the focus of this thread. One the one hand, I think folks should be able to do things that will make them feel better about themselves. But on the other hand, it saddens me that we live in a society in which it is an issue. I guess I see aging as a natural process. As I think about this, it also occurs to me that I'm 35, and so haven't had any real changes as of yet. As I get older, it is certainly possible that my perspective might change. I would hope though that I would never see age changes as taking away from a woman's beauty.

For those of you who have had or are considering surgery, please do not take this post as a criticism of your decision - that is so not my intention. For instance, if my partner wanted to do it, I would support her in that, as long as I knew that she wasn't doing it at all for me, or thinking that I didn't find her attractive. Everyone deserves to be happy.

-Kayden

[liveitloud]

I don't get it at all. I do however think anyone who wants to should go for it, but the whole thing puzzles the shit out of me. As a woman gets older and gets those lines around her mouth or crows feet, I think it's hot as hell.

Just my 2 cents.

[butchgorilla]

Get outta my head!!!!!


I don't get it at all. I do however think anyone who wants to should go for it, but the whole thing puzzles the shit out of me. As a woman gets older and gets those lines around her mouth or crows feet, I think it's hot as hell.

Just my 2 cents.

[liveitloud]

Get outta my head!!!!!

HAHA sorry

[mistyblue9802200]

I don't get it at all. I do however think anyone who wants to should go for it, but the whole thing puzzles the shit out of me. As a woman gets older and gets those lines around her mouth or crows feet, I think it's hot as hell.

Just my 2 cents.





Wot a beautiful thing to say ( part i highlighted ) im sure anyone you partner with will neva feel *self consciese* in any shape or form so talkin as a femme i thankyou it is great to hear this kinda think being said as i feel we are under alot of pressure nowdays with society etc(f):D




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[InfiniteFemme]

I had a partial mastectomy two and a half years ago. I hate my left breast. I look at it and I feel damaged and unattractive, somehow it has taken my sexiness and internally makes me feel blah.

However, even with all these emotions, I have made every excuse not to go for the reconstructive surgery. It will not cost me a penny and all I have to do is make the appointment, but it scares the hell out of me.

My partner supports my decision regardless and has made every attempt to convince me I am still beautiful and not damaged. My mastectomy was extremely painful, and the thought of that kind of pain again - no no no. Big baby here.

Now with that said... I get really puffy eyes, and I would LOVE to have this corrected (lol) but scared to go under the knife. I am all for it - If it will make you feel more confident than you should do it.

Julie