Looking 10 years younger

When my grandma came to Thanksgiving dinner this year, she honestly looked twenty years younger. She told us that she had a mini face lift, and she is seventy two years old! I was so confused because Grandma always used to say that face lifts were the tools of the less fortunate, and just I had no idea that someone so old would worry about their appearance.

I mean my sorority sisters and I talk about nose jobs or maybe having their ears pulled back but it never occurred to me that my grandmother would ever not just feel as beautiful as she has always been to me. When we finally had a moment alone to talk I was able to ask her “why?” She explained to me that after her heart transplant two years earlier, that she began to feel so alive and energized, and she wanted to look that way on the outside as well. Now I understand that the surgery lifts more than the sagging skin on your neck or the wrinkles on you face, it also lifts your spirit and your self-image.

So now my 72 year old grandmother doesn’t look a day over 50 as she out walks, my beautiful mother on our monthly girl’s day out at the mall.

With my new outlook on face lift surgery I decided to do a little research of the benefits, drawbacks, and variety of procedures. To my shock and amazement, there is a cosmetic procedure to address every physical defect from Liposuction to eliminate belly fat, to MACS (Minimal Access Cranial Suspension) face lifts to eliminate sagging skin. It occurs to me that one never has to look as old as they actually are, and maybe here lies the fountain of youth!