Botox Party

[Anonymous]

Can someone who has been there, done that, give me the scoop? When someone is throwing a botox party, how does it work? Do guests end up paying the same for the treatment as if they went to the salon/dr.'s office? Does the host pay a set price for XX number of treatments?

[Anonymous]

I haven't done one, but I'd assume that unless the host specified that the treatments were her treat that you pay for what you get. The benefit is that the cost is usually lower because you're getting a "bulk rate."

Personally, I would only do it if it was being administered by an experienced MD (derm or plastic).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone who has been there, done that, give me the scoop? When someone is throwing a botox party, how does it work? Do guests end up paying the same for the treatment as if they went to the salon/dr.'s office? Does the host pay a set price for XX number of treatments?

They're a lot of fun! my new look after our last party - treatment #3

Because my friend does it on the side, we pay 1/3 of the cost, or about $100.

[Anonymous]

Wow, your mouth looks like my vulva after it got stung by a jellyfish in Malaysia. Bad times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, your mouth looks like my vulva after it got stung by a jellyfish in Malaysia. Bad times.

[Anonymous]

But do you really know who is going to be wielding the needle? How much training they have? Do they have an artistic touch? Is the Botox pure? I'm pretty sure I've heard of Botox patients who didn't get unadulterated stuff and they ended up with face rot.

If you're serious about plastic surgery, which this sort of is, why not find a real doctor and save yourself some saggy brows?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, your mouth looks like my vulva after it got stung by a jellyfish in Malaysia. Bad times.

Were you swimming in the nude?

[Anonymous]

A botox party sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to come over, get drunk, have poison injected into my face in hopes of looking couple years younger. I find something about botox that makes people look older. Maybe it's because they seem to be desperately clinging to their fading youth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A botox party sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to come over, get drunk, have poison injected into my face in hopes of looking couple years younger. I find something about botox that makes people look older. Maybe it's because they seem to be desperately clinging to their fading youth.

Oh, puh-leeze. You're thinking Joan Rivers. Most women who get it look great and perfectly normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A botox party sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to come over, get drunk, have poison injected into my face in hopes of looking couple years younger. I find something about botox that makes people look older. Maybe it's because they seem to be desperately clinging to their fading youth.

Oh, puh-leeze. You're thinking Joan Rivers. Most women who get it look great and perfectly normal.

My MIL gets it. (BTW, I really, really like her so this is not one of those standard hate the MIL things). She has it done by an MD who is well known in her area (not here) to be the best of the best. Her face looks strange to me. And when my child was tiny, he was terrified of her, and I honestly, truly think it is because of the unnatural looking face. I say this as someone who would consider Botox as the one procedure I might consider, given the lack of invasiveness, if I didn't think it nearly always looked fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A botox party sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to come over, get drunk, have poison injected into my face in hopes of looking couple years younger. I find something about botox that makes people look older. Maybe it's because they seem to be desperately clinging to their fading youth.

Oh, puh-leeze. You're thinking Joan Rivers. Most women who get it look great and perfectly normal.

NP here.

You and many others are fooling yourselves if you think that it doesn't look unnatural. You may like the look, but only in the rarest cases, is it not noticeable and not fake looking. Go ahead and inject poison into your face for your own self-esteem, but on most people, it doesn't look perfectly normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A botox party sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to come over, get drunk, have poison injected into my face in hopes of looking couple years younger. I find something about botox that makes people look older. Maybe it's because they seem to be desperately clinging to their fading youth.

Oh, puh-leeze. You're thinking Joan Rivers. Most women who get it look great and perfectly normal.

NP here.

You and many others are fooling yourselves if you think that it doesn't look unnatural. You may like the look, but only in the rarest cases, is it not noticeable and not fake looking. Go ahead and inject poison into your face for your own self-esteem, but on most people, it doesn't look perfectly normal.

I'm the PP, and I don't have Botox. Again, you're mistaken. Many women have it, and you would never know.

[Anonymous]

I have it, and need it again, along with a filler between my eyebrows. At least once a day someone would ask me what is wrong, why am I mad, smile....Got it done & haven't heard it since. It just stared to fade off and my son has started asking me if I am mad about something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A botox party sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to come over, get drunk, have poison injected into my face in hopes of looking couple years younger. I find something about botox that makes people look older. Maybe it's because they seem to be desperately clinging to their fading youth.

Oh, puh-leeze. You're thinking Joan Rivers. Most women who get it look great and perfectly normal.

My MIL gets it. (BTW, I really, really like her so this is not one of those standard hate the MIL things). She has it done by an MD who is well known in her area (not here) to be the best of the best. Her face looks strange to me. And when my child was tiny, he was terrified of her, and I honestly, truly think it is because of the unnatural looking face. I say this as someone who would consider Botox as the one procedure I might consider, given the lack of invasiveness, if I didn't think it nearly always looked fake.

Are you perhaps confusing it with fillers injected into the lips? It can't really look "fake", since it's a toxin that deadens the ability of muscles to move--nothing actually shows, so I'm not sure what would look fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have it, and need it again, along with a filler between my eyebrows. At least once a day someone would ask me what is wrong, why am I mad, smile....Got it done & haven't heard it since. It just stared to fade off and my son has started asking me if I am mad about something.

My friend has the same frown lines between her brows and used to encounter the same comments. She's a vegetarian, compost building, comfortable-shoe -wearing, chemist and the last person I thought would get Botox. She did. And she looks great. Her dermatologist does it for her.

OP, if you do it, I'd see a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon, since it requires some finesse.