I've Just Got To Say Something...

I try to keep my blogs on the positive side, however, I've just got to say something about this...
I've had a subscription to Woman's Day Magazine for quite awhile. I've never cancelled it because every now and then there's a good recipe or crafty project to keep my interest and I've always recycled it to my neighbor, Jan. So what's my beef?

This month's edition had a piece on 4 or 5 different women getting a makeover before their class reunions. In the old Woman's Day Magazines that might have included a snappy new haircut/hairdo, some make-up and some snazzy outfits. Pretty harmless stuff. And who doesn't want that killer outfit that makes you look 10lbs thinner! Well times have certainly changed... now these "makeovers" include Botox, Restalyn and some lip plumping with collagen. I think that's just WRONG to start pimping invasive procedures (yes, getting fluids inserted under your skin is invasive) to solve all your beauty woes. They even have the nerve to tell you how much the procedure cost as if $350 for some Botox is a drop in the bucket. AND does anybody truly know what happens to all that stuff they're injecting? I still find it hard to believe that women are that insecure as to liposuction, inject & implant themselves for a brief moment of vanity. I say "brief" because it seems that those women always find something else that needs fixing and a new beauty deadline to meet.

To each his own... I'm lucky the gals I choose to hang out with and who I call friends--have beauty from within. Their inner beauty translates to outer beauty and they are inspiring to me. Those are the women I want to read about.

I've passed the magazine onto Jan, who I'm sure will find a nice place for it in the trash where it belongs.