Experience is rewarded ... but only if you can't see it.
A poll of 1,000 women this month revealed that 63% in the 18-34 age range and 73% in the 35-49 age range are perfectly fine with medical procedures intended to hide their ages.
Economy be damned, it seems, if you have dark circles under your eyes or a bit of extra flab built up around your chin.
Botox treatments are up 8%, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and increasing numbers are finding cosmetic procedures to be the newest form of job-hunt accessory. Liposuction, face lifts, and boob jobs are sagging, though, as patients seem to be drawn to cheaper and less invasive work.
Perhaps a sign of the times, only 22% of the ladies in the 18-34 bracket would take a bigger rack over a diamond bracelet. When times are tough, you could always pawn the latter, while the former's value in attracting tips from the stripper pole is constrained by poorer onlookers.
Money matters, today, even over winning a hot body: 90% of 18-34 respondents saying they'd take a Paris vacation home over a Paris Hilton body (100% of men, I'm sure, would have said they'd like the Paris body in the Paris home for an open-ended period of time).
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