Posted December 07, 2011 in Beauty, Blog, Celebrity Plastic Surgery, Uncategorized
About 25 years ago during a family dinner, my wife’s entrepreneurial grandfather slipped a note to me on a napkin, and in a “The Graduate” like “plastics!” moment whispered to me, here is the secret to advertising and getting people’s attention. Scribbled inside the folded white paper napkin was four words, “IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE”. I didn’t realize at the time why he was right.
When we perceive a face, it takes about 3 seconds in our subconscious mind to process the image, access shapes, contrasts, millimeter differences in symmetry and variances from the norm resulting in our assessment of that face being pleasingly beautiful, average, or genetically flawed.
As Chicago facial plastic surgeon Steve H. Dayan, MD opens his book, “Instant Beauty“, “First impressions are visceral and imprinting, and our ability to form them is a primitive part of human nature. Whether you’re the one forming the quick first impression or others are doing the same to you, it’s to your advantage to understand that their impressions have consequences…in just seconds your mind assesses and makes judgments about that person’s health, financial status, state of happiness or unhappiness, success level, and even sexual virility…it’s likely that what we define as beautiful is associated with greater fertility. That may sound odd, but if we look at the issue of beauty from an evolutionary perspective, nature’s purpose promotes reproduction or our species…we tend to place much more emphasis on those physical features that suggest fertility and youth in women and strength and vigor in men.”
Improving one’s sex life not only feels good, but is related to a primordial drive for survival of our species.
A recent study published in plastic surgery literature suggested that because our facial expressions influence our mood, Botox actively brings about happiness because it completely eliminates all possibility of other types of expression. In other words, because Botox makes us look happy, we actually are so. Researcher Michael Lewis states that, ““When you make an expression of happiness, it makes us feel happy. If we frown, it makes us feel sadder.” So Billy Crystal’s SNL character Nando had it right 30 years ago when he said, “When you look mah-val-ous, you feel mah-val-ous!” He didn’t need any scientific researchers.
My wife’s late grandfather was right, Billy Crystal was right, and Dr. Dayan is right. Thanks for looking mah-val-ous, feeling mah-val-ous, improving your sex life, and insuring the survival of our species. Be well, happy and healthy Holidays!
To see Billy Crystal’s SNL classic performance go to http://www.myspace.com/video/javier-v-s-nchez/you-look-marvelous-darling-by-billy-crystal/45459830
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