IN STYLE (2000) – IN STYLE BOTOX

Sure, a total facelift (brow, eyes, face, neck) can take 10 years off, but only if you have the pain tolerance, eight weeks for recovery, and $20,000 to blow. Micro- or glycolic peels may make a dull complexion glow, but they won’t help deeper-set lines. To iron chose out, celebrity clients of Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Randal Haworth get botox injections, which “freeze” targeted face muscles. Results last four to six months. Cost: About $400 for brow and forehead wrinkles. Add in crow’s feet, mouth and neck lines and the total jumps to about $700. Since Botox takes a few days to “activate” in skin, go a week in advance of your big night.

IN STYLE (2000) – IN STYLE MAKEOVER 2000 (A SPECIAL HEAD TO TOE GUIDE TO A BETTER YOU)

how it’s done: Under a general anesthetic, the surgeon makes incisions in and around the ear to work at eliminating the jowl area and lifting up the folds of fat around the nose. The procedure “airbrushes away the marionette lines around the mouth as well “says L.A plastic surgeon Randal Haworth M.D.

pros: It “turns back the clock”, according to Haworth. The face looks younger and rejuvenated, and the overall effects is just as dramatic as a regular facelift but simpler to perform.

cons: Temporary swelling, numbness and bruising.

recovery: One to two weeks.

staying power: seven to 12 years

cost: 10,000 to 14,000.

COSMETIC SURGERY MAGAZINE (2000) – COSMETIC LIP SERVICE

Treating lips on an individual basis is vital, according to aesthetic surgeon Randal Digby Haworth, because “Lips are very unforgiving they must be done perfectly from the beginning in order to get a natural result. The important thing is harmony with the face.” Haworth has devised a number of lip enhancement procedures, each achieving a particular look or style. “Or you can have a combination of all these procedures, where I mix and tweak like a cook.” The upper lift, or paranasal lip lift is employed to enhance an overly long or aged upper lip says Haworth. “The upper lip is a dead give-away of your age-a long, old upper lip can mean a ‘horsy’ appearance where no upper teeth are visible when the mouth is in repose.” The procedure involves surgery that is performed regionally as opposed to directly on the or in the lip. “The results display more of the upper teeth when the mouth is in repose and everts the upper lip to expose more vermilion. Shortening the upper lip restores a youthful balance to the lower face,” explains Dr. Haworth. Recovery time is usually about five days, and the scar becomes invisible in a short time.


W (2000) – THE DANGER ZONE

In surgeon’s defense, the procedure is not as simple as it may seem. “Breasts have a mind of their own, in a way,” says Los Angeles plastic surgeon Randal D. Haworth MD . “The first key is to position the nipple properly. I used to put the nipples in the perfect place so they looked perfect on the [operating] table. I now resist that.” After four to six months, he explains, the breasts relax, the swelling goes down and the nipples rotate higher. Haworth , who works on between 200 and 250 pairs of breasts annually, has noticed one significant change over the last few years: Young women who in the past would have had large B or C implants now come in requesting large Cs.

LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE (2000) – LIP SERVICE

THE FACIAL EQUIVALENT OF Pamela Anderson’s breasts, unnaturally full lips were rampant in the ’90s. Ten years ago, collagen was the material used to pump up lips, and the procedure was usually performed without consideration for individual mouth shape. Todays’s method of choice is fat transfer, which processes fat extracted from the lower abdomen and results in highly refined injection capabilities. “Fat transfer has become the paint and spackle of our profession and is the safest, most exact substance for lip volumizing,” says Randal Haworth of Beverly Hills. The process permits increased blood flow to the lips, decreased postprocedural swelling and a less “done” effect. The most requested looks? Michelle Pfeiffer’s heart-shaped lips and Christy Turlington’s full bodied pout are often cited as ideals. Upcoming developments, according to Haworth, include injectable substances with greater reliability. Though he believes that clients will continue to favor full lips over thin ones, Haworth expects the “volume explosion,” as he calls it, to settle down.

GQ (2000) – YOUR WAY

From the moment Thomas Jefferson & Co. reconceived the way a government could be assembled, Americans have been taking conventional stuff and turning it into their very own candy-apple, chrome-plated, monogrammed special editions. The results can be as tasteful as Philip Johnson’s glass house or as kitschy as Liberace’s living room. What matters is the pride of authorship that comes with having it your way.

SHAPE (1999) – GETTING EVEN

I once interviewed a tattoo artist who viewed himself as a shaman. He told me that he would see the tattoo in person’s skin and then inscribe it on the surface. I believe that inside each of us is our true body and that bringing that out through movement, thought, attitude and action is our daily prayer. The Navajo say that to walk in beauty is to be in tune with the spirit of the universe. Shame is its antithesis. I walked in shame for a good portion of my life, until a doctor brought my true beauty to light. It went like this.

The accident
When I was 10, I had a horseback riding accident. The horse took off for the barn; my head hit a low-hanging branch; I flew off and landed with my left arm twisted in an ungodly configuration. The good news was that in spite of the accident, I grew up to be a dressage trainer. The bad news was that my injury was never treated. Like the stiff-upper-lipped New Englander I was, I bound that dangly arm to my ribs with a couple of scarves and bore the searing pain. Yet there had always been something missing. When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a big pair of boobs. I didn’t get them. My right breast was developing. On the left side, where I’d fallen, only my arm was getting bigger, my shoulder thicker. “I’m an athlete,” I rationalized. “Im not supposed to have boobs.”
I had a practical nature, and in my family, you lived with what you got. Besides, being sexy meant you weren’t very smart, and wanting to be sexy was a waste of brain time. Instead, I became a connoisseur of boobs, an expert on shapes and sizes. There are grapefruits, pears, teacups, melons, and, of course, fried eggs. What I got on my left was a fried egg. It wasn’t pretty.
My shame was twofold, for my body and for my desperation to change that body. But as a beauty-and-fitness journalist, I was hard-nosed about cosmetic surgery. It was my idea that people who got operations to improve their looks were superficial.

The decision
Still, one morning last year, when I was 44, I walked into the kitchen and said to my boyfriend, “I’m going to get breast implants.” “Outstanding,” he said. It suddenly seemed like the natural thing to do.
The decision to have breast augmentation is much like the one to get married or have a baby; everyone drops their luggage at your door. One woman said: “I knew you were going to do that when you moved to California.” My mother took my hand and said: “That’s OK, honey, we’ll find you a good psychiatrist.” Men thought it was a brilliant idea and asked if they could feel them after I got the surgery.
Like any good journalist, I decided to investigate a few doctors. The first was recommended by a playboy centerfold. The minute I walked into his office I remembered why I had been anti-cosmetic surgery. The marble, the mirrors, the beautiful teenagers waiting to see the doctor – it all smelled of falsehood and too much money. When the receptionist said the doctor was running late, I couldn’t help staring at her Picasso face. One cheek implant was half an inch higher than the other. I waited an hour. The doctor never showed up.
The next was a nice man. So nice that I was embarrased to disrobe in front of him. When I looked at his portfolio (every cosmetic surgeon keeps a before-and-after book) the jobs he’d done were nice. I didn’t want nice. If I was going to do this, I wanted the Belgian slippers of breasts – hand – made for me, nothing less than perfect.
A few days later, I got a call from my friend Jean, a straight-talking emergency-room nurse. “You’re nuts for doing this,” she said, “but if you’re convinced, go see Randal Haworth.” Unlike most doctors, who perform the surgery while the patient lies flat, he lifts her upright and turns her on her side to see how the breasts will hang and if they’re in proportion.

The sculpture
Haworth’s office, tucked away in Beverly Hills, speaks of European good taste, the understanding that it is better to invest in one well-made thing than a lot of middle-of -the-road stuff. His assistants, Melinda and Hope, are natural beauties, with little makeup and open, friendly attitudes. His brochure, which I read during my brief wait, opens with, “During his last 10 years at the King’s School, Canterbury, Randal Haworth’s interest in art and medicine was inspired by one of the school’s most famous alumni, [author] Somerset Maugham.” Haworth, it turns out, is a figurative artist who shows in prestigious galleries.
“Oh, you’re here for augmentation,” Hope said. “Want to see mine?” She took me into the back and took off her shirt. This was the most beautiful pair of breasts I’d ever seen. They jiggled naturally and were just the right size, the Mercedes-Benz of boobs. I needed no more convincing.
Haworth is a brisk, late 30-something man. The wall of his examining room is lined with his drawings. “This will not be easy,” he said, looking at my left breast. I had something called constriction deformity, in which the lower half of my breast hadn’t “dropped.” “And I can’t guarantee the results,” he added. The day I made the appointment for surgery, I was visited by a painful memory of the first time I slept with someone: I had warned him before I took off my shirt that I was deformed.
I prepared for surgery with intense weight and cardio training. On Haworth’s instructions, I gave up all blood thinners: coffee, aspirin, vitamin E, garlic. Haworth also set up a meeting with a representative from the company that makes the saline implants I was to receive. Because of my condition, they had discussed using adjustable implants that could gradually be filled to proper size post-surgery.
As the days went by, I found myself surprisingly excited. I’d had no idea how much I’d wanted to do this. On my last pre-op visit, Haworth asked what size I wanted. I smiled and said, “an armload.”

The transformation
I’ve gone from boyish charm to a D cup. The magical part is that my breasts now fit my big horse-trainer shoulders. I look like me, not like the partial me that developed after I lost that wing flying off the back of the horse. Another benefit is tighter T-shirts and a new alignment due to the change in my center of gravity. Because of the added weight in front, my tailbone has shifted downward; my lower back look longer and feels more relaxed. My left arm feels freer now that my pectoralis muscle is no longer contracted by scar tissue from my accident. Haworth had to cut it away to create the pocket for the implant. In the end, Haworth decided to use traditional implants with 425 cubic centimeters of saline on the left side and 440cc’s on the right. It was difficult surgery, but I have no discernible scar.
Certainly the adjustment has been grand. Men tend to talk to my chest now, which makes me laugh. For my kid’s it’s been a lesson about taking care of problems so you can feel good about yourself. Running feels better than ever because of the change in my back. And sex…well, without that nagging shame every time I take off my clothes, it’s lovely.
I waited a long time to walk in beauty. Now I do.

Abbie Britton helped launch Mirabella, Marie Claire, Mode and Code magazine. She also teaches athletic movement therapy classes.

WOMAN’S OWN (1999) – THINNER, PRETTIER, YOUNGER, LONGER: THE LATEST LOWDOWN ON PERKING UP EVERY PART OF YOUR ANATOMY

BY LISA JOHNSON

Cosmetic Procedures used to be the exclusive domain of the rich and famous. We knew that Cher and Melanie Griffith were having surgery to keep themselves looking remarkably young. Some of us are even aware that world famous beauties like Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sharon Stone are not operating solely on the benefits of the good looks God gave them. But when it comes to grabbing a piece of the plastic surgery pie for ourselves many of us feel it’s beyond our scope.

Well, hold your chins high, girls. Justice has arrived in the form of modern technology. With the latest procedure and advancements, you too can look just as beautiful as those who live in the 90210 zip code, at half the price, and for a fraction of the recovery time. Modern cosmetic medicine just keeps getting better and less expensive every day…..

……But wait. If it’s younger looking skin you want, a new version of an older technique is now available. Instead of injecting collagen into the face to make it seem younger an plumper, surgeons are now injecting the patient’s own fat. “It works well to smooth out he crease from your nose to the corners of your mouth,” says Richard W. Fleming, M.D., of Beverly Hills.

In addition, he can use your own fat to fill the hollow under your eyes, reshape your forehead, fill in the bony gap in the middle of your chest between your breasts, even make your hands look plumper and younger.

So where does this fat come from? “Anywhere I can get it,” responds Fleming. “Usually from the lower abdomen or thighs.” But don’t think you’ll get two cosmetic procedures for the price of one. They hardly remove enough to make a difference. Prices range from $500 to fill in a depressed scar to $2,000 to get rid of those indentations under the eyes. Randal Digby Haworth, M.D. , also of Beverly Hills, has nearly perfected another use for fat tissue. He injects it into the lips to give them a youthful plumpness. This permanent “lip lift” costs anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000 per lip. Dr. Haworth, who is known internationally as “The Man” to see when it comes to improving the lips, says analogous fat transfer (AFT) can have more lasting effects than collagen.

Maybe not as lasting but definitely worth trying, is a product, fresh out of England (and just now available in the states), called The Lift, touted as a new “mini lifting” treatment with immediate results. Though I was dubious, I mixed up the stinky paste and applied it to my face. After 30 minutes. I washed off the hardened mask, and was quite surprised by the results, which lasted several days. My face really did look younger and firmer.

One package of The Lift, which costs $206, contains enough lifting powder and boosting lotion (which you mix together to form a paste) for 30 treatments. The price may be steep, but as Felicity Calthorp, creator of The Lift, explains, you’re getting 30 facials for a low $7 each. I had to agree. The Lift is exclusively available at Saks or by calling 1-888-354-LIFT (or www.perfectskin.co.uk ).

THE TOP BREAST IMPLANTS
The latest word in breast implants is shape, according to body specialist Dr. Bolton. Many women are opting for tear drop shaped implants that give the appearance of the breast sloping gently and naturally from the top of the chest up to a perky nipple, rather than the more traditional implants have that uniformly round, half-melon effect. If you have an expert like Dr. Bolton or Dr. Haworth work on your breasts, it could cost you from $5,500 to $6,800.

After the big silicone scare, most women seem to be more confortable with saline implants these days since the leakage is harmless. But recent studies are showing that the improved silicone implants can be harmless as well.

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (1999) – THE GREAT LIFE

New York P.R. maven Harriet Weintraub flew East with Gene Gresanti for the preview, which ended earlier this week-along with IFF, Harriet represents Burberry, Lanvin, Guerlain, Coach, Brooks Brothers and other international accounts. After the preview, Gene and Harriet arranged a dinner at Mr. Chow, where guests included Angie Dickinson, Kathy and Rick Hilton, Wendy Goldberg with daughter Amanda, Victoria McMahon, Christie’s George McNeely and Marica Hobbs, W’s Merle Ginsberg with Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Randal Haworth, designer James Galanos. After dinner, Gene Grisanti discussed the megamillions IFF spends for research, even hiring sex therapists Masters and Johnson for their conclusions-plus robots as sniffers. “We’ve discovered that the scent of vanillas is soothing and relaxing, and when accompanied by candlelight and music, it enhances the libido.”
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