The Lincoln Log

Have you noticed that more and more women are getting work done on their faces? But not just on their faces and not just older women. A growing number of younger teenage girls are getting plastic surgery done, usually as their graduation or birthday gift. The more we do it the more normal it becomes to us. Even though the dangers are even higher than before. Why is the use of injecting toxins seem common today?

In Los Angeles, there are more plastic surgeons than there are pediatricians, in a 1-to-2 ratio. As a result to the growing demand in botox, there are “botox parties” which is just like a Tupperware party except with botox. Wealthy women would come together and inject botox together. Often at these parties, there aren’t any licensed doctors- instead the patients do it themselves and sometimes people who claim that they are licensed.

Sure, getting something fixed on your body can be great. It can make you feel more confident and happier. However, doing something so dangerous and toxic shouldn’t give you that feeling. Most of the time, surgeries never come out like that storybook ending. Instead, you lay in bed in endless pain and agony after spending hours in the operating room. You then realize that it’s done completely wrong and you look worse than you did before. Not to mention the hundreds of dollars that you spent to get that “dream” body. Now you have to spend even more to fix it. Out of the surgeries done in the US, 20 to 25 percent of them were to fix operations that had been gone wrong.

Too many teenagers aren’t happy with how they look. It’s a part of growing up. Sure, you don’t look right to yourself but that’s because you are looking down on yourself. You should be looking though other’s perspective. Even though it still doesn’t seem right to you now, it will. Our bodies are changing and it all a part of growing up. We shouldn’t be injecting, peeling, adding, or pumping anything in or out of our bodies. It’s so unnatural to be putting something that’s pure poison into our bodies. Remember that old saying, our bodies are our temples. You wouldn’t dump 10 million gallons of toxic waste into your temple. Then why are you doing it to your bodies?