Wait— is everyone doing stuff to their faces now?

144 words

I ran into an acquaintance; I didn’t recognize them at first, then I did, then I realized why there had been a delay. So even writers are doing it now?

“Well rested” is the euphemism we use in the South.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with altering your looks, and I don’t take it personally, but I’m beginning to forget what a face of any age looks like without drastic intervention. The meaning of “drastic,” too, has shifted, as has “natural.” I don’t yet feel any pressure to conform, just an absence of reality.

I told Avery she should make an episode about Botox; it is, perhaps, clothing for the face.

She deflected, and said I should write about it. So here I am, writing to find out what I really think about this, but I’ve been writing a while and I still don’t know.

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The above essay is 144 words, a part of a series explained over here.

(Decided to go short on this topic despite having a lot of other conflicting thoughts because Jessica DeFino is who you should be reading if you want to really understand the existential vertigo of the beauty industry right now.)