THE STORY OF THE "FORMACRYL GIRL"THE BEGINNINGWhere shall I begin? Ok...the beginning. My interest in better lips, goes farther back than I'd realized. You see, I'm like every other girl, We focus on ...our hair, in the 7th grade...then it slowly progresses to makeup, clothes, by the time we reach high school, we already know who's got it together, and who is still trying to figure out how to get that perfectly feathered hair...BTW( Thank god the 80`s have come full circle, cos I finally mastered the feathered hair thingy...at age 32 thank you very much!) Anyway...to enhance ones lips with makeup is divine.....but to actually HAVE that voluptuous kisser... is DAMN SEXY!! So after years and years, of finally perfecting the art of "illusional makeup" I was tired of never eating spaghetti in public...or eating clams with a fork, instead of using your hands, (as one such jealous Napolitana "model" so to speak, put it) "we don't eat those with our FORKS !!!!!! " And of course my ever-ready response was: "well....a LADY would...therefore...I DO!" This was the same girl (she is a very typical Napolitana, dark skin, Jet black hair very pretty, but ugly personality) who remarked to me " why ARE you so blonde?" and my always quick response was: "uh...beCAUSE I CAN" BACK TO THE STORYAnyway...oh yes the lips...so after I met my honey, Romeo, Italian Stallion...etc... in Sept. of `96 (BTW if any of you would like to hear my story of how we met...send me an E-mail!!) So I'd met him with my natural virgin lips...uh (so to speak) 1 month later we met in New York for our first ever real time together I was soooo careful, to eat, and not let him see, My lips were small. I mean they weren't puny, they were always full, you can see the upper lip very well, and the lower....but I felt that my mouth was too small, maybe because I always did extravagant eye makeup, so in relation to my lips...I felt like that alien everyone says they saw...y` know the one... huge eyes...tiny mouth... so the final straw came when, the following month, this was Dec of `96...my guy invited me to Miami and the Bahamas for 2 weeks...to get to know each other... Ok so during New years eve...my nude and necessary lipliner, must have fallen out of my purse...YIKES!!!! I didn't realize till the next morning, we were going out to go shopping around, there were also friends of his, so I was NOT about to say uh can I stop at a dept store or a drug emporium....I mean I was scared of this guy...he was perfect, I didn't want him to think I was shallow. And the language barrier was still ever so present! I was sooooooo embarrassed, I though oh god now his friends will see what my lips really look like.. THE FIRST INJECTIONS!!!Our next meeting was February for Valentines day! I went to a plastic surgeon in Seattle, (my home town) and had "the test" 2 grueling weeks , then finally...yaaaa I was not allergic to the collagen!!! I went in and did it! Ok apart from the fact that I looked like Claudia Scheiffer meets Donald Duck. I got used to it, and even welcomed it! When the swelling finally went down (they were noticeably bigger I thought) but I went home to my moms, (I was staying there at the time) and she and my dad didn't even notice...I had no lipstick on...so I guess I was an artist somewhat, with my lipstick, `cos they said it looked the same without lipstick, as with! FEBRUARY `97 VALENTINES DAYCalifornia-Valentines day-the true test! I met my honey, we were in San Francisco for 3 days before going to LA. One morning in the hotel room, And I'll never ever forget this day....he said " you have lips like Bridget Bardot, you look like her..." YES!!!!!!!!!! Ok now you tell me...how on God's green earth can you be told, that you look like Bridget Bardot, and NOT continue getting your lips pumped up????? Ya can't! I tell ya ya JUST cant! So I went in to have collagen often...After moving here to Italy, It was quite a while before I had more collagen....I was apprehensive about asking My guy to help my find a doctor... So I asked My hairdresser! And this hairdresser is very important where I live, he knows a lot of people, and he has a great deal of care about me, and respect for my man. So I continued to have collagen every month or 2 months (hey it's addicting!) he said "why don't you try something permanent, I hate to see you wasting your money" He at this time was more of a friend. We'd talk a lot, and I call him by his first name. My guy, was not happy with the way collagen was turning out, neither was I. Every injection left me blue and black, for some time, and there were always bumps...I could feel them they kinda itched...sometimes I even had a sensation of a creepy crawly feeling in my lips, like I could feel it moving yucky! GETTING TO THE FORMACRYL!So because I trusted him so much, I went for it. He said he wanted to use Formacryl, because he believed that there were no better products out there for the lips. He told me about all the other things, but said for me he really did not want to do any of the other things, he said the Formacryl would look like my lips. He said he wouldn't make my lips the center of attention...he wanted to leave me natural....bless him!!!!! So, I had my first session...he put in 6 shots of the Lidocaine I think, whatever it is the dentist uses. THAT was the only part that hurt. especially in the center inside my lips yikes!!!! but after that, the Formacryl feels like its going in deep, I can feel the sensation, but no pain, I want more...I'm loving this...after he puts in some, he massages the lips...hard! I feel a little pain from this...but as he is such the expert, this probably helped my lips to look so natural..After... there is very little swelling...he puts ice on my lips, every time he stops, and moves around the chair. Then later I put the ice on for a few minutes until I leave. Now, leaving the office wasn't bad at all! apart from the fact that you are still numb from the shots...you feel dumb, but look normal! I went home, and left ice on my lips all night, to keep from being blue, from the massage... also because my bf is not happy when my lips get black and blue. I have gone back now several times. My doc told me that he would not do any more for me. He refuses. He says everyone will see only my lips...I agree.
So now it has been about 2 years, maybe more ...I really don't know, also I cannot be sure how much Formacryl is in my lips, because my doc being my friend, I let him decide, how much was good..and I didn't want to be hung up on quantity...he is the expert!! I love my Formacryl!!!!! I feel absolutely nothing!! Its like my own lips. no lumps, bumps or strange feeling!! They are soft as real ones!!
I love also that I have found this site...I found it because the first thing I did when I got this computer (my first ever!!) 1 1/2 YRS AGO, was to plug in the word breast implants, thinking it would be fun to look up info (even tho I'd already had them done!) then right under breast implants was this title...Yes They're Fake!! Who couldn't resist lookin' at a site with a gutsy name like that! Thanks Marianne!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!! [LipAugmentation.com is a lip-only site stemming from YTF!] Ciao to all my friends at this site! You are all special!!!!! |
