[Just Susan]

So true, so true...however strapping your arms to your side before hand keeps them topside.

[Just Susan]

Originally Posted by barefoot at last

I made the mistake one day of bending forward to look into a magnifying mirror. My great-grandmother was looking back at me.

Don't do this unless you have a bag handy. ::

OMG Bare I remember the first time I looked into one of those magnifying mirrors...I had never imagined that a person could see to the bottom of one's pores...but I did. Horrifying!

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Susan&Tom

OMG Bare I remember the first time I looked into one of those magnifying mirrors...I had never imagined that a person could see to the bottom of one's pores...but I did. Horrifying!

It's a really great way to see what you'll look like 15 years down the road. :yikes: As if anyone really wanted to know that!

[Just Susan]

I know what you mean. My mirror was a gift from my mother. I asked her if I was her least favorite child.

[Peachie]

Nonie, check this link for a little info regarding the Lifestyle Lift.


http://www.realself.com/review/lifes...ift-good-first

IMHO, for the money and after reading/looking at this personal experience, I'd opt for a full facelift and not the LL if I were inclined to have any procedure. I did find other personal reports that expressed dissatifaction with the procedure.

A nice smile makes all those wrinkles and sags look so much better. I'm picturing my elderly aunts and how sweet they look when smiling, I can't imagine them having it "cut and pulled tight" and yet I've often thought about doing that. I must be nuts!

[samhass]

There is something to be said about being on the bottom!!! 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl
Oh..and when I am on the floor laughing, I am not rolling. I am on my back.

Originally Posted by barefoot at last

I made the mistake one day of bending forward to look into a magnifying mirror. My great-grandmother was looking back at me.

Don't do this unless you have a bag handy. ::

[samhass]

One more thing ladies..I have noticed that after I know someone for a while, they are beautiful and they don't change. I do not have any old, ugly friends. Are many of them wrinkled and heavy? It could be, but it's not something I really notice or think about.
If you have a negative, mean personality, then I do notice your appearance. So, my friends are all beautiful, vivacious, caring, nurturing, loving incredible human beings and not one of them needs anything lifted or tucked. They have no need to impress me. They already impress me.

[graciegirl]

:bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup:

[Just Susan]

Originally Posted by samhass

One more thing ladies..I have noticed that after I know someone for a while, they are beautiful and they don't change. I do not have any old, ugly friends. Are many of them wrinkled and heavy? It could be, but it's not something I really notice or think about.
If you have a negative, mean personality, then I do notice your appearance. So, my friends are all beautiful, vivacious, caring, nurturing, loving incredible human beings and not one of them needs anything lifted or tucked. They have no need to impress me. They already impress me.

Originally Posted by graciegirl

:bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup:

Ditto

Plus you save enough money to go on a really cool trip!

[Peachie]

Sam you expressed that sentiment beautifully! Isn't it remarkable how exciting it is to meet wonderful people with terrific souls that we may have missed when we were working so diligently in our younger years to be the thinnest, most stylish people in the room? This is one of the very biggest pluses of growing older. :bigthumbsup:

[nONIE]

ON THE OTHER HAND!( As they said in Fiddler on the Roof,) If there is something really bugging you about your appearance and its something that makes you very self -concious , I see nothing wrong with a little nip or tuck here or there to make you feel better about yourself. Its a very personal choice and I wholeheartedly agree with all of the above and I for one do admire inner beauty far more then outer appearances but whats wrong with a little nip and tuck if it really makes you feel better about yourself. PHEW! Was That all one sentence??? LOL

[samhass]

Nonie, If the nip and tuck makes a person feel better, so be it. A nip and tuck will not however, change any underlying unhappiness. It could become a never ending battle against time. I have put on 50 pounds since menopause. Does it cause my friends to like me less?
Get to good looking and you may become threatening to your more insecure friends. How my husband feels about me if very important. My GFs are next in line. (I have excluded Grands..they love you anyway) My friends do not care if my eyes bag or I am chunky. They accept and love me as I am. I really don't care how strangers perceive me and I could totally care less if other men think I'm cute, hot, good looking or whatever.
Many of us have to undergo necessary surgery. That optional stuff is just that..optional.
Nonie, you are so beautiful now. If you get any prettier, I might be jealous. :-*

[Peachie]

I'm not anti plastic surgery, only the individual can make that decision. Heaven knows I could use some, but I think about my dear friends and how unimportant their looks are to me. (I do like clean and smelling good, though!) It sounds like you've given this idea quite a bit of thought, Nonie, and you are the only one to make the final decision. We're not judging you at all. :#1:

[nONIE]

Thank you all so much for the input, I am only in the thinking stages right now! I doubt I will ever go beyond thinking about it. Just having a little problem (mental) getting older. Mabe a psychiatrist is in order rather then a plastic surgeon hu? :dontknow:

[Rokinronda]

Nonie, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!! Sure things are changing! I'm 50 lbs heavier than I was before the big MENopause, also. I sag, eyelids and chin bag, stomach is roly poly, I am starting to wrinkle and my hub and friends LOVE me. I am 52 and know the bags will get baggier, the skin will wrinkle beyond hope, and I accept it as much as I don't want to. I also love me, now you better love YOU!!!! Got it? Cause we love you just the way you are. THAT IS AN ORDER! When you are here full time, we can do jane fonda workout 2 times a week to get the bod back somewhat???!!! Or just dance, dance, dance!!! LOL LOVE YOU GIRLFRIEND, I mean sister!