“My lips used to give away my age,” she said, “but now they don’t any more.” She said she is merely heeding society’s cues. “I don’t think we are getting more vain,” she said, “I think we have changed our view about how women should look.” Statistics bear this out. While face-lifts were down to about 150,000 procedures in 2005 from about 157,000 in 2004, cosmetic Botox treatments increased to about 3.3 million from about 2.8 million. In actuality, that means only about one million Americans regularly undergo facial injections, said Jonah Shacknai, the chief executive of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, which distributes Restylane.
