Running Head: BOTOX: THE NEW SOCIAL TREND
Botox: The New Social Trend
November 8, 2007
Botox: The New Social Trend
Most women will love to look younger than what their state driver’s license says. There has always been an ongoing search for the “Fountain of Youth”. Claiming to be in a jar, full of cream, promising dramatic results in three to six weeks, with the continuation of constant use, or one going to the plastic surgeon, trying to knock back ten years, with the downside of waiting almost two months or even longer for the results to show. Now there is Botox!
Botox has been apart of our American society since 1989, when it received its approval from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Originally used for medical conditions, including muscular spasms and twitches, particularly for a disabling eye disorder and other overactive muscles (Anonymous, 2003). When one hears the word Botox, one may not relate it to an eye disorder. Majority of America may assume it is for the use of one trying to look younger or smoothing out various wrinkles in ones face.
On April 26, 2002, the FDA approved Botox for cosmetic use. Hostesses from all over America were recruiting doctors for the latest trend in social evening events (DeNoon, 2007). With all of this exposure to Botox, shortly came the new trend, Botox Parties.
A Botox party is a social gathering amongst women and sometimes men where a doctor administers injections of Botox into ones face to reduce or remove wrinkles. Guest are informed of the risk, and are then taken to a private room where the “wrinkle zapping” begins.
Dr.Frank (as cited in Botox Information, 2003) says”Botox parties are quite a trend…I think mainly because it’s a real quick fix. It’s very easy and it makes very dramatic results”. These parties can range between three hundred dollars all the way up to the thousands. Majority of these parties offer a discount on the first set of injections (DeNoon, 2007).
Bridal parties have also joined...