Pick me! No, pick me!

After 17 months, I’m calling it. Here are the final results. To most of you, I probably don’t look much different from the 8-9 month photos. But until month 13 or so, I was still feeling and seeing subtle changes. It’s important for you to know that. This takes a long time.
A year after the facelift, I had cataract surgery. As someone who has needed glasses for 50 years, that change was miraculous. So it’s been a year of renovation, and healing. Seeing the world quite literally through different eyes. I recently turned 60. And with a new face and new eyes, I’m ready for whatever comes next. It’s good to undergo some renewals. We tend to treat our houses, and our stuff, better than we treat ourselves. Maybe this is your year to switch that up. Think about it. Thank you for sharing this experience with me. I wish you nothing but the best.

So it’s been 8 months since my Deep Plane facelift, and when pandemic lockdown eased up, I went in for more Botox. In about 3 minutes flat Dr Mark Glasgold knocked an additional 5 years off my face.
Look at this forehead. I had a “1” that had been a permanent fixture between my eyes since 1995.
My eyebrows are now higher, and more symmetrical. We argued about the symmetry because he didn’t want to believe it, but I informed him that if I said it was true, it was true. So there.
My upper lip, virtually invisible under normal circumstances, now actually shows when I smile. There is a drawback though. I can’t pucker, and thus can’t eat without laughing. It can get messy. So if you try it, you’ll have to learn how to eat all over again too.
I’d say my face looks like it did at 35, but the truth is, it looks better. I always had chipmunk cheeks, and Mark Glasgold took care of that during the facelift. It was the best decision he could’ve made. I feel like he made my face look like it was supposed to look. Like it should have always looked. But didn’t.
So, the upshot is, this doctor continues to astonish me with his commitment to deliver stellar care and results that never fail to soar above and beyond any reasonable expectation.
I generally have low to zero expectations anymore, so it’s actually shocking to encounter someone with such a dazzling code. So shocking I never know quite what to do, or say, in the moment. So I come home, write another review, and pray at the altar of the Botox gods that this man never retires. It’s the only way I have to adequately thank him for what he’s done for me. Because there’s always more to these things than mere skin. The changes to the skin are the part you can see. Everything else is the part no one ever sees. Never let anyone fool you into believing a facelift, or Botox, is merely cosmetic, or vain. It’s not. At all. It’s much, much more. And you want a bright star to guide you during these travels.
Just pick him. Go see him. Give a general idea of what you want, then just let him do his thing. You should treat yourself to the Mark Glasgold experience. You really should. He’ll make you better. You’ll be so happy. And you deserve that.

And 70s leather hair sticks. Do it for yourself, do it for artisan jewelers, do it for hippie leather crafters. You’ll have fun with fashion again. Yet more happy reasons to neaten up that face ;)