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It's beginning to look a lot like...LA. The NY Sun reports on a new walk-in "Botox store" offering impatient patients a chance to take a dip in the artificial fountain of youth during their lunch break.
While botox injections typically only take ten minutes or so, patients usually have to make appointments and wait for doctors. However, plastic surgeons Michael Rose and Andrew Elkwood, who are behind this quickie shop, only offer this one fast fix and are able to get patients in and out in a fraction of the time. Their concept, incidentally, is called SmoothMed, of which they told the Times last month, “People just need to be educated that it’s fast, it’s cheap and it’s not intimidating.” Since each treatment will last about a maximum of four months, the doctors (who call it the "female yuppie heroin") can count on return customers. Dr. Rose said. “It’s like electricity: If you want to keep it on, you have to keep paying.”
A patient’s first visit to SmoothMed should take about 30 minutes or less, and follow-up appointments will take 15 minutes or less. Want to know what to expect should you decide to walk through the doors and closer to an eternally expressionless face? The Times has a rundown:
First-time patients will have a consultation with a doctor who takes their medical history, examines their faces and explains the benefits and risks of Botox. Patients will also have their faces photographed and, if appropriate, receive a pregnancy test, he said.Doctors will use a syringe gun to control the amount of each injection, Dr. Elkwood said. He added that he and Dr. Rose have developed their own computerized system; it will impose a grid over a patient’s photograph and record the exact locations and amounts of the Botox injections so that it is easy for a doctor at Smoothmed to replicate the treatment on a patient’s subsequent visits.
SmoothMed is located on East 59th Street, right near Bloomie's, so it's sure to get a lot of regular business types, women of leisure and curious tourists.
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Gothamist:
Can you please post a warning before showing a photo like that, I'm trying to eat lunch..!
Damn you, Gothamist! I was eating lunch when I saw that picture. Now my burrito is completely unappetizing. Sigh.
So, who's the cute chick?
Whoa... shes hot.
she looks like a lion.
Someone did a nice job embalming that corpse. Good work.
Jocelyn Wildenstein. duh.
i'd hit it.
Actually she was trying to look like a cat.
aw mah gawd. i just puked a little in my mouth
RIP, Rocky Dennis...
Jocelyn, what have you been up to recently?
BTW, she was a pretty attractive woman before her, um, evolution. And rich!
Why pick on LA? Jocelyn Wildenstein is a New Yorker, no? Gosh, I wish I had the cash to make myself into a freak too...
That picture is creepy as all fucking hell.
is that eric stoltz under there?
On a more appetizing note, the New York Sun article was written by Sarah Portlock, the former editor of NYU's 'Washington Square News'
Good to see that she's still in city, I've always enjoyed her articles
For people who don't feel like Googling it, this is not Botox gone wrong -- this is Jocelyn Wildenstein who set out to be surgically made to look as much like a cat as possible. Between this and buying 500 prs of shoes... both are sick but at least this one is original .