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Botox Parties All the rage
Botox, that injectable elixir of youth, got a big boost in April
when the F.D.A. approved its use in minimizing the appearance
of glabellar lines -- those between-the-brows furrows we used
to think deepened with life's wisdom but now know are caused by
the contraction of your corrugator or procerus muscles. The F.D.A.'s
blessing made 2002 the year of the Botox party -- that sui generis
clinical setting where your hostess serves smoked salmon to a
few choice guests in need of wrinkle zapping and your doctor brings
the syringes, giving new meaning to doing shots at happy hour.
The Botox party quickly went public, with weekend spa packages
at Vegas casinos and radio hosts treating the first 10 lucky callers
to gratis injections at the mall. Happy Botoxers are plastering
the Internet with party photos for all to see, like ''Jeff and
Anna's Botox party at the Lobster Ranch with Dr. George Toledo.''
There's Dr. George, giving Jeff one right between the eyes, and
Anna dabbing him with cotton gauze, and finally a group shot of
10 partiers, all beaming.
The Botox party began as a way to save money -- botulinum toxin
type A has a short shelf life, and buying it in bulk cuts costs
for each user -- but it has become much more. ''They do it because
they love the aspect of being together, supporting one another,''
one plastic surgeon told an Orange County newspaper. ''Maybe we
should regard it as just another element of group therapy,'' another
doctor told an ABC News reporter. Group therapy and spectator
sport too. At some parties, a vestige of doctor-patient privacy
remains; guests slip off to another room for shots. But more often,
the injection is given with the gang looking on.
Cosmetic self-improvement has completed the arc from secrecy
to celebration, moving from face-lift holidays to treatment in
a doctor's office to Botox parties at home to the mall and the
Internet, and finally, this past May, the ultimate showplace,
a Botox party on ''Entertainment Tonight.'' We've gone public
with our vanities, converting narcissism from an embarrassment
into an achievement, even a status claim. Call it conspicuous
chemodenervation. Isn't there something surreal, meanwhile, about
shooting poison into your forehead to paralyze muscles and prevent
frowning for a few months? Well, we're not going to worry about
it. Or at least we're not going to give the appearance of worrying.
submitted 10/14 by dale
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