The Plasticization of Sarah P.

Let me start by saying that I think Sarah Palin is a pretty lady. I don’t care for her politics and while I’ve never met the woman, her personality strikes me as mean-spirited, dishonest and vindictive. Regardless of that, there’s no getting around the fact that she is blessed with good skin, doe eyes and an appealing smile. Well, she used to be:

I noticed the change in the former governor’s appearance after having watched videos of her chat with Barbara Walters. There’s a definite tautness to her face, an upturn at the corners of the eyes and her eyebrows now sport a much higher arch. Being a woman who survived the thin eyebrow craze of the 1970′s (as well as a former cosmetologist) I pay attention to these things. Sarah’s eyebrows had always been thin with a minimal arch that rose closer to the middle of her eye. Her eyes turned outwardly down. Not anymore:

Mind you, I realize the magic that can be done with makeup and lighting and if Ms. Palin hasn’t undergone any plastic surgery procedures, I apologize for believing that she has. I also understand that it’s no fun getting older and the experience must be doubly awful for a famous person. What I don’t understand is why someone so obviously youthful and attractive would mess with a good thing. Her face was so soft and inviting. Now it looks cold and harsh:

I don’t understand facial vanity surgery, especially for beautiful people. It always seems like one procedure is never enough and the folks that do it end up looking nothing like themselves. To me, most plastic surgery makes a face look older and rougher not younger.

I suppose I’ll get griped at for picking on a woman’s appearance. I’ll be called “sexist”. But I ask you, which is more sexist – commenting on a female celebrity’s Botox or that female celebrity’s willingness to accept that her external beauty is worth the price of injecting poison into her face?

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