Here's an intriguing little factoid:
I was prompted to look this up by a Wall Street Journal article claiming that Botox was on the rise among Washington DC politicians. As usual, though, it provided no evidence for this aside from two (2) doctors who said business was good.
But if ISAPS is correct, we're in the middle of a Botox boom that started in 2021 for some reason and has kept going since. Maybe everyone wanted to look good when they finally started socializing again after the pandemic? Or maybe stimulus money was burning a hole in their pockets? Who knows? But whatever the reason, maybe politicians are hopping on the Botox train along with everyone else.
Dim-old Trump has been stockpiling it along with day-glo orange bronzer
Call it the Gaetz Effect
???????????? He looked sooo creepy!
He looks like the evil guy in the Wishmaster movie.
He look's like Max's creepy cousin Matt Gaetz Headroom.
& the gop makes fun of neoliberal nancy & crooked joe brandon for having botox. but at least the typical dem pol waits til they're old to get it. gaetz isn't even as old as i am!
Like he went to a Dick Tracy villain botox parlor and said help me fit in with this crowd, and they said but you fit in fine now but he insisted he needs the street cred, like turning his entire skull into a gang tattoo.
I am Hans, and I am Franz, and we are going to Pump You Up.
Huh. I was offered botox for medical reasons (to treat migraine caused by neck injury). There's a lot more of that kind of use than there used to be.
I declined, because it would require a 5-hour commute there and back again to get it every month, and guess what? That induces migraine.
Yeah, I was offered it for similar medical reasons but.., it seemed a cure worse than the disease.
I think this explains it. For migraines, 34 injections are given every three months.
I know this because shortly after I had Covid for the first time, my migraine frequency exploded. Haven’t tried the Botox prevention treatment yet, however.
Maybe because everyone just spent the past year staring at themselves in Zoom meetings?
And that was just with Gaetz
Or just because a lot of people were yanked out of their social environments and kinda freaked out and lonely and had extra time on their hands and ... did this, among many other things that happened.
I think we forget how weird some of that time was because we WANT to forget (understandably). But it's not at all surprising that introspectively motivated things like this would surge at a time of isolation.
I noticed that Botox is now also recommended for migraines. I believe this use of the drug is fairly new and it might be that this triggered the rise; migraines are quite common.
There have been news reports of injections being done by people with little to no medical training and problems with fake botox, for example:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fake-botox-cdc-warnings-symptoms-rcna148197
But pharmaceutical companies are evil. It should be free to all. All these terrible people using these awful products are being manipulated by advertising. Shame on all of them.
"Instagram face" is actually a thing. Mostly a female thing. Girls and woman getting Botox treatments, cosmetic surgery, dental implants, etc., to look like their fave Kardashian or other celebrity.
My advice to anyone considering it: don't! You'll look like a mutant and regret it the rest of your life.