Comments on: An English Rose wilting in California

By: babieswhobrunch

babieswhobrunch — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:04:21 +0000

You must be pretty Californian to have even thought of having a facial…. And to have gone through with it. British mums just moan about looking old. Or is that just me?

By: geekymummy

geekymummy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:02:16 +0000

The cheek of it! I had a facial this weekend also, and this being Northern California instead of suggestions of botox, along with my facial I got a nasal massage (weird), and some kind of acupressure that involved being bopped about the head with a rubber hammer.

Maybe that scares the wrinkles away?!

By: mothership

mothership — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:39:28 +0000

Oh she DEFINITELY gets a commission on the ‘cosmeceuticals’, so that’s why you got the suggestions. However I’m pretty sure she talked her stupid self out of a tip – not exactly the right way to make you feel beautiful and relaxed, DUH!
People are awfully unimaginative regarding accents. They hear an English accent and automatically you look like someone who sounds like you. I’ve had that, too, but with different actresses who are blond ranging from Helen Mirren who is admittedly gorgeous but proper OLD (WTF?) to Cate Blanchett (I was dead pleased, but was he effing blind?) to Petula Clark (uh?)
V. funny!

By: A Modern Mother

A Modern Mother — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:01:39 +0000

Don’t take it personally, I’m sure she was just trying to drum up business. But I bet you are always described at “the English woman” as I am always “that American one…”

By: NFAH

NFAH — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:22:00 +0000

I don’t feel like British women have a particular look (although I can often pick them out due to clothing choices) but I can often pick a British man out in a crowd, especially the Prince Charles type look with the ears.

Botox is pure evil. And the person who said that probably gets a commission on all the Botox they sell, this is after all the American pharmaceuticals industry gone awry! Have you seen the Brooke Shields add for the new drug that makes your eyelashes thicker? As though having thin eyelashes was now so serious it deserved a drug treatment? Egads.

By: Michelle Robbins

Michelle Robbins — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:31:55 +0000

Ok, see, now that you’ve written it – I can totally see the Victoria Tennant comparison – but only if they’re talking about her circa 20 years ago with LA Story. I really can see the resemblance to her *from then*, not her currently. Botox, fillers, surgery – I’m a native and I know fewer people that have than haven’t. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of natives I personally know that have bothered with any of it. Most people I know that are in our demo or older, have not.

Not surprised at all that you were getting a facial and had those comments though – most spas also provide those services now so it’s not unlike the other products they push and try to convince you you somehow “need.”

I try not to be judgmental, it’s a personal choice for each woman, but I hate that is seems society is somehow expecting the natural aging process to somehow be reversed for women, and that we should all just happily line up for the procedures to ensure it.

By: Expat Mum

Expat Mum — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:14:21 +0000

How bloody Rude!!! Actually I must have a really common face too because people are always telling me I look like “someone”. Usually they can’t think who, but it’s be nice not to have people do double-takes quite so much!

By: lisa mertins

lisa mertins — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:36:42 +0000

hi lorna, i do hope that dope doesn’t get to you either. however, what an interesting experiment to see how long it takes a lovely, level-headed oc transplant to succumb to the pressure to “get a little work done.”

By: Millennium Housewife

Millennium Housewife — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:01:12 +0000

Here they don’t recommend botox, still controversial, instead they suggest products for ‘more mature skin.’ I’ve suggested they offer a quart of whisky when they say that.

By: nappyvalleygirl

nappyvalleygirl — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:16:42 +0000

That’s so American. My dentist here told me that I need braces because I have a misaligned overbite which is ‘typical of the English’. (My dentist in UK never told me there was anything wrong and indeed said my teeth were in pretty good shape). I’m sorry but wear braces at 36? Excuse me, I am not Ugly Betty.