Lovelyish

necessary? no. Surgery is necessary. I would get it in a heartbeat though. 

Nice! You have my sympathy. I got made fun of for a lot of my features, too, but I haven’t had them fixed since I can’t afford it.The other girl who had surgery here……I couldn’t relate since it didn’t look like her nose needed to be fixed.

Good for you! I wouldn’t get plastic surgery “just ’cause”…but I’m not judging you for having those procedures done.

“maybe liposuction because I hate going to the gym”  are you serious !?!?
I have a lazy eye too and it never bothers me how I look in pics.

I want to get it on my face.  I wouldn’t get anything on my body changed that I could fix with exercise.  

Your friends need lives. Plastic surgery just because is one thing, corrective surgery is another. You got something corrected, it’s not like you had a massive overhaul & changed your face. And cosmetic dentistry is nothing new, infact it’s very common. And if the dentist is really good, you cant tell a thing!

I’m not anti-plastic surgery but I AM against people getting it too young & thinking it’s nothing. It’s real surgery with down time, anesthesia & pain. Not to mention possible complications. I mentioned before that I think people who want plastic surgery should have a psych eval done to make sure they’re doing it for the right reasons. A doctor taking the money to do a patch job on someone’s self esteem is no help in the long run. Many issues people face are mental, not physical.

I am so lucky that I can’t afford that kind of surgery otherwise, I would look like Michael Jackson with all the work I would have done. If you can’t accept what you see in the mirror, plastic surgery won’t mix that. It’s a mental thing.

“maybe liposuction because I hate going to the gym.” 

Seriously? You need to prove you work out and you’ve lost weight. You can’t be the slightest amount overweight. I know people that have tried to go get it done and they were denied. 

I would, I don’t have enough skin on my top lip to completely close my mouth. So yup

I love how I look naturally. Although it may be *vain* of me to say this, I think it’s much more rewarding to be able to say you love your natural face and body than to say you love a fake version of it. 

That doesnt sound plastic to me. 

Plastic is getting your boobs done. Or your stomach tucked. Stuff that actually alters you.

Probably not, just because I’m already healthy and fit. That’s from being forced into soccer and dance class for 11 years 

hm…don’t agree with your reasons for liposuction.

I’d like to get my ears pinned.

The only time plastic surgery is ever necessary is if it’s done to improve health. Yes, SOME plastic surgery can improve health. I don’t think I would ever change anything on my body though. I don’t love my body, but I don’t hate it. I was born with this body and that’s the body I’m going to keep.

@Ashley Nicole Anders@facebook - if the person in your avatar/picture is you, your nose is perfect. and you are perfect. you’re gorgeous!

I was with you until you said you’d get lipo because you are lazy. Awesome. You’ve lost credibility. 

At 19 you should probably not refer to yourself as bratty.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with buying beauty with money. However, even if I had all the money in the world, I would try not to fix any of my flaws. Beauty is only skin-deep. I don’t think it’s worth fussing over about, although this world places so much value on looks. It would be nice if the world stopped doing that, and I don’t think women who try to change how they look helps the issue. I would spend the money on something more valuable. 

no, I wouldn’t get surgery. I already think I look hot. I’d use the money to buy more clothes, shoes and other cute stuff

I’m just shocked you got plastic surgery at 12! Or that a doctor was willing to perform on someone so young. Or that your parents approved of this. It just seems like a drastic change for such a young person…

i’d get it in a heartbeat. my nose done. my upper lip filled in a bit more, since it’s pretty much not there. lipo. laser hair removal. 

That’s good that it makes you feel better (confidence wise), but you learn that not everything is fixed just with plastic surgery or surgery to begin with. You do have to work hard regardless. I hate working out, but it has to be done.

I’m more proud of the fact that I worked out and achieved a 15 pound lost, then if I was to do plastic surgery. I think it should be used as last resort. Also, beauty is only skin deep and the real beauty is in your personality. There are a lot of beautiful people with ugly personalities. 
It doesn’t mean squat if you don’t have a great personality to boot, that is what really lasts when you get older. 
But for correcting those things, there is no problem. 

If money wasn’t an option – Lipo, and boob reduction with a plan to reperk them. I have DDs, and I hate them so I would like them to be smaller and perkier. And Lipo just to get rid of the fat I don’t want or need. 

I may hate my body, but I’d rather work my butt off to lose weight than pay a bunch of money to have my problems removed. 

I sympathized with you until you got to the lipsuction statement. Everything else is understandable though. Lazy eye, teeth, even boob lift.

Personally, I wouldn’t get plastic surgery. I’m comfortable with the way I look and I think confidence can be achieved in many different ways.

It’s a shame for many girls to only be confident in themselves when they see a pretty girl in the mirror. Confidence is accepting yourself (flaws and whatnot). I just never understood that justification of getting plastic surgery to gain confidence.

i can relate – i got my eyes fixed when i was 14, everyone gave me a hard time about having no eyes since i’m asian and mono-lidded, so i got double eyelid surgery

when people stop bullying others over their physical looks, then maybe some people who would consider it wouldn’t

they are allowed to operate on people younger than 18, as long as a parent signs the release forms

i don’t agree with the lipo though, one lady i know got it done and it looks amazing the first year, but when you’re lazy and accumulate fat again, it accumulates in clumps around your body, not an even distribution

-b.

id get liposuction. i work out plenty but there are problem areas i can never get rid of, and i eat quite healthy too.i used to want a smaller perkier nose but i got used to mine and no longer feel like i have to get it fixed

I think it’s your business what you do with your body with your money… it doesn’t affect anyone else, does it? So do what you like?
I will say though, that if you get liposuction and continue the bad habits that got you fat in the first place, you’ll get fat again, so it is better to actually work out. My mom’s had it twice and she’s overweight again…. and her surgeon won’t do it for her anymore.

I would love to get my lazy eye fixed. Maybe one day I’ll have the extra money to do that. 

Surgery for a lazy eye is quite a bit different than liposuction because you’re lazy. Yes to the former, no to the latter.

I think those cosmetic reasons are different than a boob job (oh wait, you want that) & liposuction for laziness (oh wait, you want that too).

No, I would never get plastic surgery, unless I was in an accident or something… but then that’s reconstructive surgery, so yeah.

I completely understand your reasons for fixing your eye and your teeth. I probably would have made the same choices.

But i disagree with liposuction. That’s a quick fix and only a temporary solution. If you did get it, but didn’t change your lifestyle, the fat that was taken out would just come back. It would be a waste of money. You can basically give yourself liposuction by exercising and eating right, just minus the health risks that come with surgery and the costs. Not to mention, exercising would make you healthier over-all.

I don’t think i’d ever get plastic surgery unless it was something like an eye problem like you had or something that i was extremely self-conscious of that was giving me problems.

I don’t think your tooth thing is any different than someone getting braces to correct their teeth.  They are both serving a practical function and just happen to make your smile look better at the same time.  I think that if you like the results, then it was successful, and no one else can really condemn you because they aren’t in your shoes.

I would not change a single thing on my face.  But after I lose all the weight I want to, I would like to get the extra skin on my lower ab region taken care of because it looks gross and undermines all my hard work.  And if I have enough money once I’m in my 30s or 40s, I would consider getting a boob lift or maybe even go up a half or a whole cup size (that one’s a big maybe).  But I think it’s really important to try to accept yourself the way you are and not let your flaws define you.  None of us are perfect

As a guy,    I was just like to sort out my teeth a little bit,   only to make it easier for me to clean.

Sometimes I have not confidence because of my smile

I think it’s really sad you had to get surgery to feel good about yourself   Maybe one day you’ll learn that the people that love you for what’s inside are the ones that count, and that you deserve better than to be a piece of plastic.

if money was no problem i would have my teeth straitened becasue one of my canines is really far up and crowded my top teeth and my two bottem front teeth sit back so my smile is pretty wacked out its also cause uneven ware on my teeth which will someday be a bigger issue i still smile and laugh tho looks wise it doesnt really bother me its more a functionality issue.  i had extra wisdom teeth on the top 4 total instead of 2 so that caused a lot of crowding and a chronic headache for 2 years because the nerves were pushing on my sinus cavities having 2 removed took off all the pressure so its much better now.  i also had 2 total wisdom teeth on my bottom row they came in really crooked and they rubbed holes in my cheeks for months untill i had them removed i lost weight during that time because it was so painful to try and eat.  I might have a foot surgery too my baby toe curls under the toe next to it so when i have been on my feet all day they get pretty sore and swollen which sucks.  I wouldnt really do anything else tho im not perfect but i am me.  If i really want to change my weight lypo isnt the way to do it i am overweight but taking the easy way out wont solve anything.  Im also pregnant and am just like my mom in the baby stripes department but even that doesnt bother me a few battle scars are well worth it.  Being happy with who you are physically may not always be easy but its much better than going under the knife for evey little issue.

I used to think that I would get a boob job because my boobs are small, but I changed my mind about that one because I really would like to breast feed when I have children. 

@PAPER__x__HEART@xanga -

The surgery she had done (correcting a lazy eye) is plastic surgery (by definition) but it’s important to keep in mind that it’s CORRECTIVE surgery apposed to cosmetic surgery.

a lazy eye is the main cause of childhood vision problems.
Because the child’s vision is being impacted, surgery is sometimes needed so that the child can actually have proper vision.

(recently there has been use of botox being injected into the muscle that’s pulling the eye out of place as a less invasive means of correcting the lazy eye)

the procedure is often performed on children much younger than 12, in fact it’s actually BETTER to correct a lazy eye as soon as possible.
if a lazy eye is not corrected (by either surgery, therapy, etc), the child’s brain will suppress the signal from the lazy eye creating blurry vision that can not be corrected to a clear/sharp image and even with glasses the eye will not have the ability to focus for the child to see, since the brain will be “ignoring” that eye. 

Basically, the child will be blind in one eye (also having the child lose their sense of depth perception)

I got my nose fixed and my jaw (chin, really) changed a bit.  When I was young, I took sterorids for allergies and it changed my nose a ton, so really I just changed that back to how it was originally.  I look a lot like my mother now!  <3  As for my chin, well, I really didn’t have one and it looked so odd to me, so I got it pushed out a bit.

It was so painful.  I can’t take vicodin or any strong meds, so I did the whole thing on ibuprofen.  I couldn’t eat solid foods for weeks, just because it hurt so much.  It took about six months for the swelling to totally go down, and about two years for the feeling in my lower lip to partially return (it’s still not fully back, which resulted in a lot of loss in my instrument-playing abilities).  I knew this going in, and I don’t regret the decision.  I love how I look, and I really love how nobody really notices.  People just asked if I got a haircut – like something was different, but it wasn’t an obvious BAM NOSEJOB thing, which is perfect.  I just hated how I was too afraid to tell my friends, because I worried about them judging me. 

The title of this post is rather misleading.  (lovelyish editors made the title?)

Correcting a lazy eye actually is CORRECTIVE surgery apposed to cosmetic surgery.

The cosmetic dentistry is cosmetic however.

OP:
I’m glad that you’re happy and content with the results you’ve had.  it’s good that you’ve had a positive experience and are able to now feel like you can show to the outside what you felt on the inside.  being able to smile and be proud of your smile really does have a huge impact on feeling happy
Or at least i think it does lol.

A word of encouragement. 

I’m not a huge fan of the gym either, pick up some work out DVDs, grab a bike and go around the block… it’s a LOT cheaper than liposuction and a LOT less risk!  (my friend used to work at a cosmetic clinic and lipo was one of the main surgeries they do, a lot of risk involved, often the results aren’t pretty and you’re left with a really “lumpy” texture)

@arsenic_and_red_lace@xangayes they edited it a bit (a lot), and created the title.
and yeah i
actually do workout a lot, mostly jogging and dance, but its so hard to
convey sarcasm over the internet! It gets so grueling tho, and lipo
wuld just be so much easier!! but when it actually comes down to it, i
would prefer excersise over getting jabbed with needles.

@my_final_username@xanga - Gosh i know! Messy or gappy teeth are actually a trend right now, but its all about how you feel personally. a lot of people told me my gap was cute, but i was so embarrassed and self conscious and literally never smiled openly. If it really REALLY gets you down, its so worth the money

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - who said i was fat?! haha

@phuck_diz_shiz@xanga - i actually was being sarcastic with that, but its hard to convey! haha

@MissAshley - No, i think its great! who said vanity was a bad thing?! (well its good in small doses anyway!) I wish i was able to be happy with the way i looked naturally, but i just wasn’t. I got teased daily about my teeth & eyes and getting it fixed made me love myself. Now i DO love the way i look, and am very confident, i just think if something is seriously getting you down, for a long period of time, and its fixable, fix it! i didn’t want to be teased and depressed any longer. Now I feel beautiful and happy and i love how i look
end of essay xD

@P0RCELA1N_D0LL@xanga - I like your ideas girl!

@Maddi_Vanity_Faith@xanga - You mentioned liposuction, I assumed that if you want to get that, you’ve got some extra bits that you want to get rid of. 

I would get lipo on my ass, thighs and stomach. I am planning too i just don’t know when. it is something i want because i can’t seem to lose weight, but i’ve been taking water pills and a diet pill called lipozene. its gotten bad reviews but i didn’t know that till after but so far it’s working a bit for me. Its curbing my hunger and i am def not eating as much as i did before. ^_^  so i am losing some weight, thank god.

@Maddi_Vanity_Faith@xanga - lol I always see featured posts and then the original author will later comment about how much has been changed.

I would love a gym membership but in all honesty, i think i would use it for a bit and then stop going because i get busy etc.

Do you have an iphone/ipod?
If you do check out a free app called “5K Runner” (if you’re interested in running that is)
I like it because it breaks up walk/run intervals for you and don’t have to watch a stopwatch trying to time how long each interval is.

i also enjoy work out DVDs,  Beach Body has some good ones (you’ve probably heard of P90X etc)  I like “hip hop abs”, it’s fun.

i don’t do much on a regular basis.

I am willing to consider cosmetic surgery in the future.
I find I’m a lot more comfortable with the idea now that I know some of my friends have gotten it done.

http://antiduckface.com/

I would love to do laser hair removal. I hate my hairy arms. And I would get plastic surgery if they invented a way for me to be shorter

Correcting a lazy eye is not cosmetic surgery.  There are very good medical reasons as to why it needs to be corrected.  And with teeth, that too is not cosmetic.  Large gaps and crooked teeth can increase the risk of gum disease.  None of this stuff is cosmetic. 

Plastic surgery (which is not always cosmetic) is sometimes needed for a variety of reasons.  I had skin cancer and there was a chance I’d need plastic surgery to properly sew it up.  Luckily, I didn’t because my insurance would not have covered it.

If money were no problem I might get some stuff fixed up from having babies.  Well, if loosing weight doesn’t correct it.

I workout and am working towards getting my dream body. I wouldn’t want to say “yeah I paid ten grand for my body” I’d much rather say I worked my ass off for months to get it. That’s wrong with people who want to lose weight and are too lazy to do anything about it. Get off your ass and stop complaining because whining isn’t going to get you results.

As for your other reasons, I wouldn’t know anything about lazy eyes so I won’t judge you on that. I know my teeth on the other hand are awful. They over lap, and have those little bumps on the edges that little kids have but eventually go away. They used to bother me, but hey I’d rather choose to embrace the real me.

If I had enough money I’d get some fat put into my flat butt and some fuller lips, but on second thought I wouldnt go through with it. Plus I’d have to turn that fat ass intoo muscle, or I’d get cottage cheese.

Why didn’t you just get braces? Braces are more affordable than surgery. I’ve thought of getting surgery for my teeth…but I didn’t. It’s much more rewarding when you wait for results, instead of trying to achieve instant gratification.

If I had a lazy eye, I’d get it fixed immediately.  That is all.

@arsenic_and_red_lace@xanga - ah, i misread and thought she meant she got surgery because her eyes (as in the shape of her eyes or the size of her eyes) weren’t even. 

I think that plastic surgery is addictive. Get one thing done and you instantly want more. Just  look at Heidi Montag…

@articulate_silence@xanga - me too! im about 5’11/12 and i hate it!!!!

i think you should do whatever makes you happy as long as you don’t hurt others. therefore, everyone else should just mind their own business because its your body

 hell no