There is an alarming world wide trend for women to turn themselves into aliens. Nobody wants to look old and tired, but what gives women the idea that stretched skin and puffed up lips look better than a few wrinkles? There is a frightening number of women here in Italy, and other places I have been in Europe, who look as if they have just flown in from another galaxy. Almost every day I see something that makes me look away in horror – or worse, stare transfixed.
I’m all for trying to look your best, but these procedures are just not working. A little nip and tuck might be the go, but the emphasis here is on the word little. Some don’t know where to stop. And what’s with the puffed up lips??? They look as though somebody has got at them with a bicycle pump. How do they perform the usual tasks expected of lips? It looks downright painful.
Why do women feel the need to do this? Do they look in the mirror and hate what they see? Whom do they want to please? Is it their friends? Do their husbands send them off, hoping they will come home looking like teenagers? I doubt very much that men are involved in these decisions. They seem happy to let themselves droop gracefully, although you do see the odd gent here who has had “work”.
Let’s hope it’s just a phase. I would have taken photos, but I don’t want to put you off your breakfast/lunch/dinner.
I know this is not a usual post for me, but I saw several aliens today and I needed a little rant – don’t get me started on leggings worn as outer wear, instead of undergarments, as they were intended. I will be back to normal in a moment.