Maureen Wadia splits open the glamour world and its obsession with Botox and bling
The biggest trend in the glamour industry for 2007 will be what I call “Hope in a jar”. Cosmetic companies are introducing anti-ageing products that promise the same benefits to people without surgery.
Skin treatments and creams of any type that will reduce stress and wrinkles will be the biggest booming industry in glamour. Already some of these cosmetics sell for as much as £800 and the queue of buyers is ever increasing.
People these days are willing to pay anything to look younger and better eternally; but youth and beauty cannot always be bought. You have got to have the face and the body to use enhancing products. You cannot buy beauty, it is god given and humanly maintained.
Perfectly obsessed
Today, the obsession with good looks is reaching a dangerous point. Not everyone is born with the natural assets that are required to look beautiful. People need to do a reality check before obsessing about themselves and going in for unrealistic ways and means of beautifying themselves.
Wearing the most expensive labels don’t give you style. You have to learn style and nothing looks worse than people who drip diamonds, bling, make-up and designer labels. There are very few really beautiful people. Beauty also has to come from within and God makes very few natural beauties.
Botox blunders
The current craze of body sculpting and plastic surgery again has to be reviewed with extreme caution as these are medical procedures and can only be done by qualified doctors. Whether it is Botox, breast augmentation or liposuction, all these have hidden dangers and are long operations.
It is dangerous to have an unqualified professional injecting Botox into your face. Botox freezes the nerves in the facial area and this can cause serious medical complications and irreversible damage if done by a hack.
For instance, if the wrong nerve is injected around the eye area it can immediately affect your optic nerve. At best, you will end up with drooping eyes; at worst, you can lose your eyesight. Although I have nothing against anyone’s choice of plastic surgery, I do find it ridiculous when I find youngsters under the age of 35 going for it.
Model replacement
The era of supermodels may have faded because today film stars seem to have replaced them. Again, there are several very good looking models just like before, but unfortunately today any person who can get their photograph and a write-up on themselves published becomes an instant celebrity.
Bollywood has now learnt to finally become fashionable having learnt from the models that went before them. As a result, Hindi films have suddenly seen an influx of designer trends which soon became fashionable. We are a nation obsessed with film stars and celebrities.
