Changing What You Can about your Appearance

Like most people, I have often thought about how great it would be if I could change certain things about my appearance. I will admit that on the whole I have a lot to be grateful for in the looks department. I am not being vain, but all my separate features are very nice and even when they are all put together, the result is quite pleasant. The problem is that no one wants to be described as just pleasant, and the least that we want to be referred to as is attractive. Even better than this would be the use of terms such as pretty, beautiful and gorgeous, but we take what we can get on the whole. In my case, I have large eyes in a light brown shade, a legacy from my father. I also have a nicely shaped mouth and my nose is small and pert, a legacy from my mother. In fact, out of all my siblings, I am the only one who has inherited our mother’s nose, with the rest of them all having the larger nose which my father has. We all have small ears and so at least that is one thing which we do not need to worry about. However, the thing that we all really want to inherit from our mum, are her prominent cheekbones! In this case, my younger sister drew the winning ticket and she has the same lovely bone structure as our mother. The rest of us, well I at least, all have to work hard with make up to make our cheekbones noticed. This got me thinking about how we can alter some things about our appearance very easily, and some other things with a lot more work, but there are certain things which we have to accept. We can alter our flesh and the amount of it we have on our bodies, but there is not a lot that we can do about the shape of our face and the bone structure which we have inherited. Here we have to be grateful for whatever small mercies we have been blessed with. In some cases we can alter the shape of the bones on our face but not without considerable cost to our pockets and to our comfort. The main way to change your appearance on a permanent basis is to have cosmetic surgery procedures done to alter certain things. There are also laser treatments available which are not as invasive and have a shorter recovery period. One of the most common laser treatments is laser tattoo removal. The most common cosmetic surgery procedures are eyelid surgery, nose surgery, or rhinoplasty to give its proper name. This is where you can have the shape and the length of your nose altered to make it more to your preference. There are of course limitations to what can be achieved and there is a slow and painful recovery period but it is all worthwhile when you are happy with the way you look.