Oh. My. God.

Last night we watched this show on BBC America called “Super Botox Me”. All I could think the whole time was, “Thank God for my Avon Anew products.” Truthfully.

In the spirit of investigative journalism, 39-year-old British lifestyle journalist Kate Spicer sets off to check out the latest in cosmetic procedures to, in her case, try to reverse the aging process.

She started out having a “before” picture taken by a professional fashion photographer. In the picture she’s sitting on a stool with her elbows on her knees, head in her hands and not smiling. Not doing anything to try to look better. It reminded me of that episode of Sex and the City where Carrie is supposed to do a shoot for a magazine to highlight being 30 and fabulous but she shows up to the set hung over and they shoot her anyway. It was that bad.

And then, just in case she’s not feeling bad enough, they bring in a 16-year-old model to compare her to. I totally wanted to cry foul! on that one. I mean, you can’t compare any 39 year old skin to 16 year old skin.

I say that Spicer is trying to reverse the aging process because the truth is she does look like about 40 miles of bad road. She admits to several years of hard living, including drinking and smoking. However, I really felt like if she’s just tried some kind of skincare regimen it would have helped her a lot.

It’s probably because of my own recent success with the Anew products, but it seemed like everything she was unhappy with on her face could have been helped with less pain (to both her body and her wallet) with some kind of skincare product..



At the beginning of the program she really didn’t want to have Botox injections but was doing it as part of the investigation. However, as the show went on and she saw almost instant results, she wanted to try more and more. At one point, while she’s paying for a $2,400 treatment, she mentioned that she was glad she wasn’t footing the bill.

By the end of the show she had totally drunk the Kool-Aid. She was a convert to the world of sticking toxins in your skin and it sounded like she’d be getting more treatments as needed. It’s as though she became addicted to the compliments she was getting about her looks. But I had to wonder, how much of it will she get when it’s on her dime?

Anyway, I just decided to share this because while watching the show, I was literally picturing Avon products in my head that would have helped her less painfully than her treatments. Maybe I should send her a catalog.

Until next time…