Episode 129
EP # 129 Cosmetic surgery, when is it good? And when it is too much?
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This conversation explores the topic of plastic surgery and its impact on individuals and society. The discussion covers various aspects of plastic surgery, including motivations, risks, and societal influences. The hosts share personal experiences and observations, highlighting the prevalence of plastic surgery in Los Angeles and the United States. They discuss the increasing popularity of procedures such as Botox and hair-related surgeries. The conversation also delves into the psychological aspects of self-image and the importance of therapy in addressing underlying issues. The hosts emphasize the need for self-acceptance and caution against extreme procedures. Overall, the conversation raises questions about beauty standards and the societal pressure to conform to unrealistic ideals.
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Transcript
I'm good. I'm good. I'm cold. It's a cold Sunday morning here.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah.
Oh, you were out in it?
Oh hell no.
Hell no.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah, you can let your dog roam.
Tina Marie Garcia (:That's good.
Tina Marie Garcia (:I just got out of bed and got out of the shower. Like I'm going out today. We were going to take out the bikes today, but that shit's not working because of the rain. Not the rain, the wind. So I don't know what we're going to do, but got to get out for a while.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Go get some food.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Or are they haven't been watching TV at all?
Tina Marie Garcia (:The vid.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Hmm
Tina Marie Garcia (:Really?
Tina Marie Garcia (:Are we the highest country? I would say we are.
Tina Marie Garcia (:for the surgeons or the people getting the surgery.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Okay.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Okay.
Tina Marie Garcia (:That's insane. For hair.
Tina Marie Garcia (:And that's what they have documented. Cause I think if you're going Botox, it seems like everybody has gotten Botox. I don't, I don't even know what to say about that. It kind of freaks me out because that's botulism that you're injecting into your, your body. And they say that it's surgical grade and everything, but I'm like, yeah, but it's still nasty.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm, or people get it in their armpits for sweating It'll stop sweating
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah.
Tina Marie Garcia (:So Brazil is like half of what we do in the United States. And that's the next size. So what does that say about our vanity? Hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Your looks, yeah.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Interesting.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Price is the most.
Tina Marie Garcia (:death.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:In this country? Damn.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:just to have hair. And you know what I've, because of being a hairdresser, what I've noticed is guys that have hair cut their damn hair so short, it looks like they don't have any anyway. So it's like, what are people worrying about hair for? I know.
Tina Marie Garcia (:I don't think so because when I was when I worked at one salon there were several men that had different procedures for their hair like one actually had uh surgically implanted snaps so that he could put his hair on and snap it in place I thought that was pretty disgusting but now they do that with uh ear uh hearing aids
uh, copalier, what do they call that? Copalier ear implants. Um, and there's something that actually sits like about a quarter of an inch above the ear and it, it allows people to hear. So it is starting to become more noticeable that people are doing like surgical things on their head for different reasons, but I thought those snaps were pretty freaking gross. I did. I was like, you literally snap your hair.
Tina Marie Garcia (:That's crazy.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Well, not only that, but people get hooded eyes where their, their eye, their, their eyelids are so heavy that it, it gets in the way of their seeing their peripheral vision. So they have to have that. So that, that one makes sense. Did you?
Tina Marie Garcia (:Okay.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Oh, stop.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Ew. But it didn't hurt?
Tina Marie Garcia (:Oh, fuck no. Ugh.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
No.
Tina Marie Garcia (:man.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Oh yeah, I even, I even experienced it myself. Like I'm looking in the mirror now and I'm seeing my mom, but I've lost a lot of weight. And so my chin is saggy like my grandmother's was. And I'm like, oh my God, I want to get this taken care of. And I probably will. I don't, I'm putting it off because I'm trying to, trying to justify paying all that money for it. But yeah, definitely. I mean, we live in Los Angeles or you live next to it, but
This is like the vanity central, you know, in the United States. So it definitely, I would say we have a problem with growing old or, or looking old at least.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm
Tina Marie Garcia (:Hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Well, I do recall in years past that they say in higher up jobs that men that had hair got paid more and got hired for the jobs more than men that did not. That that was like a real thing. I didn't understand why hair makes a difference, but you know, I'm also a hairdresser that likes to see hair on a man, so I don't know.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Wanna look like?
Tina Marie Garcia (:He was thinning in moonlighting, that's what I was going to say.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:So in 25 years, the number of people that have gotten the procedures is double.
That's 25 years though.
Tina Marie Garcia (:here nobody.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm a lot of my friends have gotten breast augmentation or they've gotten their nose fixed or they've got if we're talking Botox, I don't know It's it's a smaller number of people who haven't got it as opposed to have gotten it so
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah, I remember. I remember having a friend back in the day when we were very young, like before we were even 10, whose grandmother had a facelift and it was all secretive and she wore dark glasses and she wore a scarf on her head and huge glasses though on this little tiny lady's face. And we weren't allowed to talk about it. And I was like, what's wrong with her face? And they wouldn't tell me. I mean, I figured it out later, but.
I thought somebody beat the crap out of her because she was black and blue. And that wasn't the case, but I didn't know at the time, but it was, it was so interesting to watch the progression of her, her bruises going away and her skin looking better. I was like, what the hell? As a kid looking at somebody, you're like, what's going on? You know, I don't understand that. So I definitely saw a lot of that growing up.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:which looks like an alien.
Tina Marie Garcia (:She looked like a sleaze deck from the land of the lost. She did.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Oh, they look creepy. Or the cat people, the ones that like get stuffed to look like cats.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah, I don't, there's just, people have got really bad self-image problems, it seems like, because to do some of the stuff that they're doing is just ridiculous. It doesn't make sense to me to do that.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah. And most people that get plastic surgery when they do the extremes, they're so beautiful when they start, but when they're done, you see how ugly they thought they were or how ugly they must feel on the inside because of what they end up doing. It's just, it's sad and they should get some psychological help for that, for sure.
Tina Marie Garcia (:complications.
Tina Marie Garcia (:He's got a big bicep implant and he's got like a little kid chest. That's stupid.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah, there's just, you guys can't see this. So I don't even know why we're looking at pictures and then talking about it. Cause you can't see what we're talking about, but, but these people are excessive in, in their, in their, uh, anything that they're doing from, from the tattoos to the shaving their teeth to the huge, huge chest implants on men where their bodies are, are
ridiculously smaller than what they're putting in their body, but it's And though you know what bothers me too is another one is the lips the lips that people are putting on their faces You know when my daughter was younger. She's she's 30. She'll be 32 Everybody played with brat dolls and these brat dolls had these ginormous eyes ginormous lips. They were huge Shoes but
The rest of them was very tiny. And it seems like to me, the plastic surgery and stuff is leaning towards the look of a brat doll. But some of these women's mouths looks like a vagina. Like they made it so big, it just looks like their vagina is on their face. I don't understand why people would wanna do that.
Tina Marie Garcia (:I think they look dumb on everybody.
Tina Marie Garcia (:And I remember when, because they say they, it's a pouty lip. They want a pouty lip. I remember when people got, I used to get in trouble for being pouty, like quit acting like that, quit looking like that. Now everybody wants to look pouty. Like I thought that was a bad thing growing up. I don't know where that changed.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:totally is and then a lot of people that went and had those boobs are now coming back in and Saying they need to be taken out because they're leaking or they've gotten hard or they can't find clothes to wear it doesn't fit their body anymore, and then they're having to Get them taken out and then they're trying to put in smaller ones and what that what that does to the body is Ridiculous like it doesn't you don't ever look the same again
Just let your boobs be what they are and work on your self-esteem.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Yeah.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Hmm no way stupid see
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Right.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:As natural as you can for boobs that aren't going to move when you run or shift when you trade positions or...
Tina Marie Garcia (:Why?
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Well, that's good because extreme doesn't... Doing the extreme stuff definitely doesn't make you more popular. It doesn't make you any... feel any better about yourself. It makes you now stand out and be awkward and... and gawked at because... now what you're feeling on the inside, you just put on the outside of your body.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:I think too, you don't really realize what type of attention you're going to get. Cause you've never been in that situation. You know, you've had, you've been looked at a certain way or overlooked because you look a certain way. I noticed that even with my bike, you know, and I'm on my bike, I get a lot of attention. I had no, honestly, I had no idea that was going to be the case when I got it. I just thought, you know, I'm going to be writing, I'm going to be having a good time. I really wouldn't even be talking to people. I had.
no idea that just anybody felt like they could come up and whistle or give me a thumbs up or tell me about the bikes they had. I had no idea that was going to happen. But you know when you're getting plastic surgery that you're going to get some sort of attention for something. But what you do with it or how you handle it depends on what you did to yourself.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:It looks like a curtain at your waist.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Tina Marie Garcia (:and then falling.
Tina Marie Garcia (:I don't think any of them are really safe. Like, you got to really be careful. And you know what? I think that, last thoughts, here we go. I think the thought for me is more like, if you do not like yourself, ask yourself why? Get some therapy, like really try to look at that. Even like people that get their, you know, they get their stomach stapled so that they don't
There's a reason that you're feeling the way you are. And it makes sense to me to go and get a little bit of therapy. So you could see why you feel that way and really make an educated guess on how you're gonna be able to handle it. Cause whatever you're feeling now, you're always gonna feel. No matter what surgery you get, you're still inside you. So I would say definitely really check yourself and see what is bugging you so much and...
Go from there.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, see there's something mentally we need to start checking ourselves
Tina Marie Garcia (:too. Yay.
Tina Marie Garcia (:And we have like a hundred, what were you saying, 129 episodes now?
Tina Marie Garcia (:believe if you said that. Yeah. So if you, if you haven't heard us catch up, there's a lot of things you can listen to out there and share.
Tina Marie Garcia (:Hehehe
Tina Marie Garcia (:See ya!
