Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientist stands over me with a laser pointed at my face. His fiendish helper claps goggles onto my eyes. I tense. A searing sensation rips into my face. As the laser traces tiny spider veins across my cheek, zapping them into oblivion, I hear a faint pop, pop, pop. It begins to sting. Yeow, I swear silently. Is that burning flesh I smell? Hey, Doc? Owww. Yeowww! DOC! Dr. Harold Lancer, my Beverly Hills dermatologist, is laughing. He had warned me to take some Valium before the procedure (or risk scaring off his celebrity clients, no doubt...
...weeks later, the pain forgiven, my cheek peachy and clear, I'm back for more. This time Lancer zaps an ugly brown spot on my left cheek--the result of driving with the California sun constantly bombarding my face. (Seems my chic metal sunglasses had been channeling the sun onto one spot.) This time he uses a different, less powerful laser. Surprise--there's barely any pain! Within days there is also no sign of the stupid blotch that had been bothering me for years. I'm getting to like these lasers...
...baby boomers are squeamish too. Does trying to stay young mean having to subject your delicate face to the surgeon's knife? What we'd much rather have is a cosmetic "quick fix": fresher, firmer skin with no blood and gore, very little healing time--and cheaper too. Cue the laser...
...admits she's a cosmetic-surgery junkie. You name it and the suburban New York housewife has had it done: Botox injected in her forehead to paralyze the facial muscles and prevent wrinkles from forming, liposuction on her stomach and thighs, fat transferred from her behind to her face--and lots of laser work. She's had pulse lasers to erase broken blood vessels in her cheeks, diode lasers to remove the hair on her upper lip and an Erbium laser to zap the crow's-feet around her eyes. "It's unbelievable. It took 10 minutes, and then...
...work, are succumbing too. Stan Madray, 36, who works for an entertainment company in Orlando, Fla., was unhappy with his "chipmunk cheeks that made me look older and worn." His doctor liposuctioned his cheeks and jowls, then beamed a laser under the skin to sort of "shrink wrap" his face. It was done on a Friday, and he was back at work by Monday, and nobody was the wiser, despite some swelling...