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April 1, 2003

Those of us of a certain age are sitting ducks for those who sell Botox and vanity surgery. My perspective may help you resist the growing pressure to “fix” your face.

An impossibly flawless (frankly, plastic) look has become the norm among America’s actors and models. And have you noticed that vanity surgeons promote themselves more aggressively with each passing year?

It’s working, too. The number of customers for vanity procedures is 8.5 million a year… and rising faster than the numbers on those old signs at McDonalds that tracked sales of hamburgers.

Who dares to publicly criticize the fad for fake faces and bodies? You’d risk being called a spoilsport, a nut or, even worse, someone too socially clueless to understand that nothing in post-modern American life matters more than how you look.

Still, plenty of otherwise well adjusted people have dared to grumble in private. And maybe you have been one of them. When respected broadcaster Greta Van Susteren won acclaim by going plastic, did it repulse you? Have you ever felt that artificially improved faces have lost their soul, in some intangible but very real way? Even on the surface, you may feel that surgically altered faces lose their individuality—that too many actors on TV, for instance, look vapidly interchangeable.

Or perhaps your social conscience has been stirred by the class war implications of vanity surgery. Read it as a sign of the growing economic divide between America’s rich and poor. Wealthy women today feel social pressure to look impossibly flawless. When I’m hired to read their faces for party entertainment, women who don’t go under the knife often apologize to me, as though their reluctance to go plastic made them socially inadequate. Is this nuts or what?

FACES REFLECT THE SOUL

As a professional Face Reader, I’m here to remind you that vanity procedures have consequences that doctors won’t tell you. For at least 3,000 years, physiognomists (pronounced Fizzy-OG-nuh-mists) have described the connection between physical face structure and the soul. What happens when you learn to interpret data like ear angles, nostril shapes and cheek proportions? You gain insight into a person’s patterns with power, money, sex, work and other areas of life.

How accurate is Face Reading? I wish you could follow me around, as I do individual consultations, classes, event entertainment and media interviews on five continents. You’d find that the accuracy level of my trademarked system, Face Reading Secrets®, approaches the purity of Ivory soap. And when you learn to read faces, your readings will be accurate too. One of the most important discoveries you’ll make is this:

Faces aren’t Silly Putty, to reshape at will and whim.

Vanity surgery changes people, often in deeper ways than they think. There’s a reciprocal relationship between the physical face and the inner person. Usually we evolve first on the inside, setting off a corresponding physical change. Because the relationship is reciprocal, the reverse is also true: When we alter the physical face, the inner person must follow.

For this to happen, the number of physical procedures need not approach the grotesque levels of alteration done to Michael Jackson and Jocelyne Wildenstein. Even relatively minor vanity surgeries, or a shot of Botox, bring inner consequences. My new book includes specific interpretations of the most popular procedures, as well exploring the fascinating meanings of natural physical changes. Over the past 15 years, your face could have had more than 15 of these changes -- not counting wrinkles.

BOTOXICALLY BEAUTIFUL

Within a week of the FDA’s approval of Botox as safe, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a highly relevant study. It showed that that the government’s nearsighted oversight agency has done its job pretty badly over the past 25 years. How badly? More than 10 percent of the drugs it approved have turned out to be dangerous.

Wouldn’t common sense warn people that there might be long-term problems from injecting faces with a known neurotoxin? Possible medical dangers aside, let’s consider the face reading consequences of using Botox. Two examples follow:

Removing the Mark of Devotion

When I read faces, most people tell me they call their vertical forehead wrinkle at the third eye an “anger line.” Yet, as seen in the cases of Mother Teresa, George Washington and Abe Lincoln, this line has nothing to do with anger. It is the Mark of Devotion. Symbolizing a spiritual vocation, this mark may be the most beautiful of any data on a human face.

What happens if you nullify it with Botox? You’re telling your soul, “Forget that! Why would I agree to grow extra fast spiritually and be of service to others?”

Removing an Anger Flag

Ever notice vertical lines growing straight upwards from your eyebrows? An Anger Flag at the right eyebrow signifies stored anger relating to work, while an Anger Flag on the left shows long-term rage and resentment in personal life.

If you know about the mind-body connection, you’ll appreciate that either symptom is not something to fix with the surgical equivalent of a band aid. If you remove this way a mind-body system that deals with anger, who knows where it will show up next? Perhaps you’ll stop storing up the anger and start expressing it. Now, there’s a treat! Or perhaps you’ll create deeper mechanisms for storing anger in other organs, like the heart or the gall bladder.

One consequence is certain. When Anger Flags are removed, it disrespects the body’s wisdom. Sure, having no stored-up anger is preferable to having it. That’s do-able, only it takes more forgiveness, self-awareness and reflection than paying a doctor to zap away a facial symptom.

But when you observe the rest of your face data, you’ll find inspiration. Every face is loaded with talents. And your face changes over time to record the high points of your life journey, not only stress. Learn the details in the advanced face reading book, Wrinkles Are God's Makeup: How You Can Find Meaning in Your Evolving Face.