Nothing gets us more excited than talking about a not-so-little tweakment or a nip-tuck procedure. In the spirit of transparency, Marie Claire’s aesthetics column, Life in Plastic, delivers a first-hand peak into what goes on behind the doctor’s door.
My eyes have always been the defining feature of my face. They’re Mediterranean Sea-blue, almond shaped, and always the first thing people comment on when they meet me. They’re kind of my claim to fame, if you will. So in the last few years—basically after I turned 30—I felt dismayed to see that they looked more and more hooded. Pretty much everyone on my mom’s side of the family has heavy brows and hooded eyes, so I was expecting to follow in her hereditary footsteps, but it was still jarring to see pictures of myself where my eyelids looked increasingly droopy.
