Faye Dunaway

Let me go ahead and say this stuff for you and get it out of the way:

1. You are incredibly vain.

2. You don't need it!

3. Wow...there are hungry children out there.

Feel better? Great! Now you can enjoy viewing my before and after "Juvederm" pictures knowing that I know that you know that we both know gettin' injections is a completely self-indulgent act of vanity!

The pics below are my before and after. Please note that my entire face was numb in my "after" picture, so I do appear a bit slack-jawed. I'm also a bit swollen, and obviously I have several red marks where the actual injections went in. However, I wanted to be able to show how I looked IMMEDIATELY after the procedure. I will take another "after" picture in a few days to show any bruising I may have, and also once more after that to show the finished product.

BEFORE

AFTER

I am already extremely pleased with the results. My parenthesis lines literally vanished in what took about 30 minutes. The doctor told me the results would last anywhere from a year, to a year and a half. The procedure was completely painless. The doctor was an oral surgeon, and the shots he used to numb my face were the exact same shots they use to numb you for dental work, and are injected into your gums from the inside of your mouth in the same manner. They even numb your gums before they inject the shots. Once your face is completely numb, and I mean completely numb, the doctor marks your face, and takes about 3 minutes to inject the Juvederm and smooth it out. You see results immediately.

I also got Botox today. I got 15 units injected between my eyebrows for the "11" lines. You are not numbed for Botox, nor do you need to be. The needle they use is incredibly small and aside from some very mild burning upon injection, there is no discomfort. I gotta tell ya, so far I'm not real impressed with it. It doesn't feel or look any different. Granted, it is supposed to take 2-4 days for the Botox to "relax" your muscle, thus disabling you from frowning, which disables the wrinkle. I guess I just need to be patient. I can still frown and furrow my brow with ease. We'll see how it goes in a few days, and I'll post pics at that time, though it would probably be more effective to post "after" pics in about a month, as it takes about that long to fully see results. Botox is supposed to last me about 6-8 months.

So there you have it; I'm becoming "well preserved". If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask.