Okay, I hope you liked Part 1 yesterday, “The Botox Scale”.  In review, if you don’t do Botox, every year you don’t your wrinkles will get worse. (Remember Botox does not fill in lines it prevents motion in the muscle, albeit temporarily.)  Every year you do CONSISTENT Botox, they will get better.  

Now, let’s think of a shirt analogy for you to better understand the situation.  I have used the shirt analogy extensively throughout the learning modules and virtual consultations.  But who has bothered to read those?  If you already understand what I mean by thinking of Botox like a shirt, you can skip this blog.  If not, read on.

Here’s the deal, your skin is undergoing constant creasing and wrinkling every day every movement you make.  Think of your skin like a shirt you would wear.  If you wear the exact same shirt every day consecutively for 5 years what will your shirt look like.  Obviously, pretty bad.  Now, let’s say you take a somewhat crumpled shirt and let it hang on the wall for 5 years, the wrinkles will look much better over time being hanged on the wall.  Let’s say your best friend at the same time wears his/her shirt for that same period of time, what will that shirt look like?  Obviously, bad.  There are really only 2 options:  wear the shirt (no Botox) or don’t wear the shirt (using Botox).  Like the principle of the Botox scale, wrinkles will either get better with Botox or worsen without Botox.  Now, one caveat.  Some wrinkles will persist in a shirt even hanging it for a long time.  However, with Botox the skin can completely heal since it has regenerative capacity so the analogy is not perfect.  

Many people then ask, “How about ironing the shirt?”  I always say, “Ironing the shirt is like laser or plasma skin resurfacing”.  The ironing can make the shirt look better but what if you start wearing it again.  It will start the process over.  So in almost any case Botox is a critical part of a regimen toward healthy skin, more important than anything else you can do for the skin other than sun avoidance and sun protection.  If the wrinkles are early, “ironing the shirt” with lasers, etc. may not be necessary and “hanging the shirt on the wall” (Botox) may be sufficient.  Whatever technique you do to make your skin look great:  facials, skin care products, drinking water, etc., the most important thing to do is Botox to prevent the source problem which is motion and the cause of wrinkles.

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