...for a pretty young woman to wax snarky about Botox. I felt the same way in my 20s when face lifts become popular. Sure feels different when *you* start to see those little wee lines, however.

Although I personally like Restyline, it's not toxic, works faster, and is less expensive.

It's too bad though that they couldn't also be accurate.

Botox does not paralyze your face, make your face look "weird", or remove the ability to make expressions. It just smooths out a few lines that twenty five year olds don't have anyway-- and which are hardly required for making facial expressions. Nothing more.

I can and do still raise my eyebrows-- the only difference now is that I can do it without creating that big fat crease across my forehead. Nice. It's effective. I am known for having a very expressive face and believe me if any of that changed, people in my life *would* absolutely notice.

Restylane is fabulous-- I use it to smooth out a crevice between my eyebrows that was caused by a particularly deep wrinkle. One thing I love about both of these products is that, unlike most other products that are out on the market, the deliver exactly what they promise.

Oh and yeah, dermatologists *are* doctors. Can we all be clear on that? Thanks.

I find it sad that some young women feel there should be a stigma on going to a dermatologist-- I met one young lady whose waxy, sun-damaged complexion was covered with old acne scars and she was indignant that anyone would suggest that she might benefit from sunblock, Retin A, and maybe some micro-dermabrasion.

I suppose fixing your teeth is also terribly vain and shallow, but I don't see anyone objecting to dentistry or braces. (Come on girls! Having your teeth fall out is all apart of the natural aging process! At least that is what my Turkish grandmotehr believes!)

Hmmm, and gray hair is also a part of aging so I suppose we should ridicule people who dye their hair. Back in the old days women of a certain age simply put on lace caps like Whistler's Mother. What, that's not good enough for you?

Oh and that huge pot belly thing is also *inevitable* after you have children and is what nature intended, so have another piece of pie and stop that silly business of going to the gym. You should be home baking pies for your twelve children anyway.

Oh, and that nasty hair that keeps growing out of the precancerous mole on your face? It's EXPRESSIVE dahling.....

Get me few extra wrinkle after watch Ms Sarah with face scrunch up. Want for vomit little bit when see cynical joke Allergen play on women with tagline.

And what is with woman in black dress who jump around and do dance with hand on bow knee like child? Is this what freedom of express look like?

Maybe after Botox still have you little bit freedom of face express as one reader suggest, but once start guarantee me have you no freedom from Botox.

I don't use botox. I don't color my silver hair. I don't bleach my teeth. Hell, I don't even change my shirt for three days and most of my clothes have holes. However, it's damn easy for a youngster to snark about older women trying to offset aging. I've lived long enough to see many young women assert that they'll age naturally and then see those same women bleach their teeth, color their hair, and so on, all of which mimic youth. Ms. Haskins will have the authority to assert what she asserted when she's wrinkled...and gray...and saying what she says with yellowed teeth. Until then, it's all hypothetical.

The one point where I absolutely agree with Ms. Haskins is when she talks about the slide into irrelevance as we age. If you currency has been youth, you will be diminished and diminished. If your currency is your intellect, you'll slow the diminishing.

I've met older women who look fabulous and I sidle up to them, expecting to rev our cerebral horses, and then I realize, they're all putt-putt-putt. You better be able to back up that taut face and that's the problem: one can spend so much time achieving a taut face that it fronts a slack mind.

I happen to agree with the young pretty woman "waxing snarky" on the botox commercials. I'm a live and let live type of person, but for me personally the idea of injecting something into "facial muscles you don't use much anyway" is a bit macabre. However, the fact that many women are doing this is partially due to the disdain that the media (and society in general) has for women in the 30+ (and up) range. Maybe I should shut up, since I spend a significant amount of money on skin care (LUSH is my FAVORITE store) myself. On the other hand, the products I buy feel good on my face. Botox can't possibly have the same affect, can it? Let me know if I'm wrong.

The Sarah Haskins videos are great - please keep letting us know when there are new ones!

By the time (some while ago) that I hit 40, I noticed that I had to work to keep from being made invisible. Do you know what that's like? It's not just Bugaboos slamming into your ankles courtesy of the yummy mummies; it's chicklets tossing your hair and damn near getting you in the eyes, 2LTs of industry (captains of industry have better sense) trying to walk through where you're standing, or younger female coworkers wondering if you'll EVER get off the planet so they can have your stuff.

It is also dealable with, but NOT by using nerve poisons and needles. Don't inject your skin: protect it by not smoking, eating right, getting enough rest, using moisturizers, drinking a lot of water and staying out of the sun. Above all, it's dealable by developing not just your mind and your character, but a sense of presence, which indicates I'M HERE as the Church's Shoes or the Manolos head toward your feet.

Not saying what I will and will not do. Prices keep me from veneering my teeth (besides, who likes the dentist that much). Clothes? Thank God for e-Bay. Hair? I'd be lying if I knew what color it was. But I live and work in a youth culture, and my survival instincts have made me rather pragmatic.

Needles, however...I'd rather get a facial.