Make-up "tattooing" bothers me. I recently saw it on a dermatologist's list of services. I'd like to know what happens to those nice straight lines that they carefully tattoo on when the skin on your face starts to sag and ripple as you age. Now that's a scary thought!

Yeah, I have to agree that tattooed on makeup sounds like such a horrible idea. It just looks freaky! I also will never tan again. I was very dumb about sun protection and loved being tan when I was younger, but no more. I might try something like Mystic Tan, though, if I was going on vacation and wanted to look tan without actually having a real tan. But in general, the only time I want to look tan is in shorts or a bathing suit.

The one thing I think I will definitely avoid, no matter how saggy I get, is a full-on facelift. I'm not anti plastic surgery, however, when women who are in their 70s or beyond get a total overhaul facelift, they just look mutated and stretched. I'd rather be wrinkly than look like an alien. :-) I realize beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if it makes them feel good, more power to them. I just wouldn't do it...there's something to be said for accepting age with grace.

Makeup tattoing just makes me think of Michael Jackson, I'm pretty sure he has makeup tattooed on his face.
Botox scares me, not just because it's a toxin, but if you get it done by someone who's inexperienced (Which I wouldn't believe that people do, but they do) the results are really horrendous. I like having facial expressions.

:( I'm Gen Y so yea.. don't get that.. :(

I will never get boob jobs, because I like mine the way they are. I will also never tan (I used to be in band back in HS, and I would just bake my skin for weeks at a time.. WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!), or get those permanent tattooed make up done. My grandma has her eyebrows tattooed I think even before I was born, and this other Asian lady had her eyelids and lips tattooed. It was soo scary and ugly!! The Asian lady also had triangular shaped eyes, which she just accents with those tattooed on eyeliner! *shudder*

I won't say that I would never get botox done though.. because I'm just so vain... =P

I think that braces were the best decision my family and I ever made. I had them from 11 to 15 (I had them for so long because it took a long time to lose all my teeth.) My mum has loads of teeth problems that the dentist said could have been prevented by braces.
Cate: My stepmother has that leather skin effect really badly. Her skin is the color and consistency of a catcher's mit. Plus, she has age spots now too.

I have the same problem, Cate. I floss and rinse and brush like crazy but I'm very cavity prone, like my mom. I had a very painful experience with the dentist involving fillings that went very wrong, so now I'm terrified to go back. I have to force myself to get checkups. I just wish that we could regrow teeth like we did when we were little. It would be awkward for a bit but then, Bam! New teeth!

Cate, have you talked to your dentist about Invisalign braces? I did it and it was the second best thing I've done for myself (first was deleting 50 pounds). My teeth weren't horrible but they bugged me. Took about 11 months total. At first I was ready to cry from the pain but once your teeth start moving the pain abates. Now I wear the last set only at night as a retainer. The cost is comparable to traditional braces but you pop these out to eat and brush.

I won't tan either. I'm fair-skinned and I'll use Benefit's Jiffy Tan if I want tinted legs. Otherwise I don't even use a self-tanner. Too much work and it stains the sheets. Ugh!

Botox, definantly boxtox. Never going to do.

Breast implants, the whole idea of which scares the snot out of me. The procedure is NASTY, and you run the risk of nerve damage. So to get sexier breasts, you run the risk of patchy or damaged nerve response in them -- which would make them a hell of a lot less fun sexually anyway. Yikes.

Botox. The "tox" part means TOXIN for pete's sake. Humans have muscles attached to our skin in one part of the body only: the face. That's for a reason. I'm prepared to believe that mother nature knew what she was doing when she hooked up muscles to the skin in that one place only. I like facial expressions. :-)

On the more trivial and individual side, I wouldn't cut my hair short, either. :-) That one's just a matter of taste, though. It's currently extremely long, and I'm curious to see how long it'll get if left to its own devices. Besides, I love putting it up with clever hair toys.

Believe you me, I've had super-short cuts AND super long hair. The short cuts took infinitely more work and money. You need to style them, which m eans time. You sleep on it wrong, which means struggling with it. You have to gel it, spray it, curl it, endlessly. And you have to fork over money every six weeks to keep it from getting ragged.

In comparison? NO cuts, NO spray, NO gel, NO curling or straightening, nothing at all. Fifteen seconds to braid it and pin it up. Long hair is nearly effortless. It's only with the advent of all the appliances and products of 20th century technology that short hair came into fashion. Back when washing your hair was a chore, and there was no such thing as hairspray and curling irons? It was worn long and kept up. Trust me on this one, long hair is a breeze. Even a crew-cut needs to be trimmed constantly to keep from turning into a mullet.

Long hair doesn't look good on everybody. I'm short, have a long, narrowish face and straight, fine hair. Chin length is best. Anything past my shoulders looks awful. I've just accepted that washing and drying my hair is a part of my daily routine. Fortunately, it dries in a snap so it's not a major investment in time. When I flip through magazines and look at the pictures it's the long, thick, glossy hair that I envy the most because I don't have hair like that and it wouldn't look good on my if I did, which is probably why I obsess over it so much.
Wandering back on topic, I agree that the thought of breast implants is kind of scary. The idea of intentionally putting a foreign object into your body with the intention of leaving it there forever is really wierd, I think. I feel the same way about artificial heart valves and such. I realize that they save lives and I would get one if necessary of course, but it still freaks me out. In the interests of full disclosure, I'm rather bosomy and have no need for implants. If I were flat chested, I might feel differently about it.

I'm leery of anything involving laser to my face. Maybe if the person performing the procedure was highly recommended by a doctor I have a long history with and was the only procedure for a condition I had. It isn't necessarily rational--laser may well be safe for skin, just a weird thing with me. I have newly diagnosed rosacea, so if I ever get a lot of dilated blood vessels, I might consider it worth the risk for that. But for hair removal, I'll stick to traditional electrolysis.

Probably most plastic surgery. I may eat my words on that in the next few decades of aging (early 40's now) if vanity gets the better of me (or if my already slightly hooded eyelids get any more droopy).

Never again going to tan. Ever. Spoken from a former tanning addict.
However, if there were a permanent makeup to give me a permanent tan, I would probably pay any money for that (still a tanorexic, I just get the fake kind now).
Other permanent makeup is a non-option, there is just too much fun to be had with different looks.
And never again lash extensions, like many, my natural lashes fell out.

Everything else I would: I highly plan on getting botox and other injectable and I might get lifts in my 50's depending on how my skin looks then. I probably would get hair extensions again. I plan on laser resurfacing being my najor anti-aging strategy for the rest of my life. And I certainly would get plastic surgery on bodily flaws, absolutely.

But then again I've never been afraid of the extent of my vanity.

I do home coloring all the time, Karla. Why waste money on a stylist when I'm good at doing it myself? It just takes practice. 

I would never get a hair relaxer. I relaxed for 6 years, between from the ages of 14 and 20. Horribly damaging, I would grow it out only to have to cut it because of the thinness. (It's the equivalent of bleaching your hair every 6 weeks for years!) I'm now 21, and starting over with chin length hair. Hello, longer, thicker, stronger hair :]

electrolysis has worked well for me.

I would never get lip injections. I don't think I have seen a single person who has improved her looks by doing that. Its one of those procedures that doesn't really look customized (read = you'll look like everyone else who has lip injections), and you can't be beautiful when you look like everyone else. It just makes you average.

I think I won’t go for face fillers, they are weird  :)

I don't think I'd every have any plastic surgery done to my face... I'd be too scared that it wouldn't look like me after.  I see soo many of those hollywood women on tv that have had facelifts, lip injections, etc, and a lot of them look horrible - and they're probably going to top notch doctors and paying top dollar!