Ok, so I’m reading this months issue of Cosmo (it’s a guilty pleasure) and there is an article on “Wacko Things Women do to Their Bodies”. It’s all about strange new plastic surgery type procedures that women do in the name of beauty. It was the first one that completely disgusted me:
The article goes on to say that you have to have a series of these injections over a period of several months to achieve the desired effects. And that the injections cost $400-$500 dollars each!
How desperate do you have to be to get pouty lips or a less-wrinkled face that you are not only willing to inject dead people into your face, but pay $400 a pop for it? I’ll take thin lips and a lined face, thank you.
Ewww! Where are they getting these cells from? Who wills their body to the cosmetics industry? I mean, is medical science so oversupplied now, that they just wheel the spare cadavers down the hall to cosmetic science? What about infection?
urgh! Thanks, mauv. Really needed that (serves ya right for reading cosmo ;))
:: groans :: Simetra … giggle that was bad
Fierra: That’s what I wanted to know when I read that. From whose corpses are all these cells coming from?! What goes through a dying persons mind:
“Hmm, you know I really hate the thought of just being dead, I have no children. I know! I can get some of my skin cells injected into the living and then I shall live forever :: evil laughter insues ::”
Haven’t they been using cadaver bits for awhile now?
A friend of mine had a piece of bone (from a cadaver) put into his leg well, sheesh…it had to be six years ago or so.
You could have collagen injected instead, it comes from a cow. Hmm, I wonder if they have collagen farms with big-ass needles milking the cows for collagen twice daily, or they just take it from the dead cow at the slaughterhouse?
You think that’s gross? The hormone replacement drug Premarin is made from horse urine…how do you figure they collect that?
