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🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Look a little angry? Accused of having a “resting bitch face”? Now, there’s a drug for that: Botox. The early joke about Botox was that it froze faces. But increasingly, people are seeking a different effect: actually altering their expressions, and maybe even their emotions. We trace the story from the discovery that the deadliest toxin on earth could make a face look less “troubled,” to a feminist professor’s Botox investigation that turns personal.
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0:00.0 | Atmosphere Salon doesn't have a lot of atmosphere on the outside. |
0:06.9 | It's in a red brick strip mall north of Boston. |
0:10.4 | In the front, you can get your hair or nails done, but through a door in the back, it looks |
0:15.4 | more like a dentist's office. |
0:17.9 | There's one of those chairs that reclines to life flat. |
0:22.0 | A woman is lying under a bright light. |
0:24.6 | Her eyes are closed. |
0:26.0 | Her face is calm. |
0:28.2 | And a nurse named Jenny Erickson is sticking a needle into her forehead. |
0:35.5 | There's also wine and cheese and music playing. |
0:38.8 | It is a party after all, a Botox party, a gathering for people who want to try it for the first |
0:44.6 | time. |
0:45.6 | And while we're here, Jenny tells us a story that surprised us about a client who wanted |
0:51.1 | to have her facial expressions altered. |
0:53.9 | She said to me, everybody just thinks I'm angry, my kids, my family at work everywhere. |
0:58.9 | And it was pretty quickly taken care of. |
1:01.8 | I mean, a couple of pokes and she was good to go. |
1:05.2 | And she did not immediately right there in the chair, but about 10 days later, she started |
1:11.0 | with the emails and the calls. |
1:12.2 | She wanted to come to see me and yeah, she was very overcome. |
1:15.7 | Like, almost tearful, but she was so happy. |
1:19.2 | Her husband even thanked me. |
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