THE TRIUMPH OF IRONY: New Botox Company Tag Line is “It’s all about freedom of expression!”

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Take a picture to remember this face Ginny, because you ain’t gonna be able to make it again for a long time: Virginia Madsen to be new “face” of Botox. It was just 4 years ago that she made Sideways without wearing any make-up, and now she’s endorsing the facial injection of poison. It’s worked wonders for Nicole Kidman and Priscilla Presley!

This is just one part of Botox’s attempt to rejuvinate (zing!) their product’s image, in light of a recently released study that shows Botox can spread to the brain and lead to breathing difficulties and death. The more wrinkled your brain is, the better it works. Well, who needs to think when your face is a perfect shiny rictus? Thinking just gives you more wrinkles! It’s a vicious cycle!

Another part of Botox’s makeover is their new slogan, “It’s all about freedom of expression!”, proving that irony is a foreign concept to the company: the complaints that Botox is ruining movies by turning the faces of actors into frozen masks incapable of registering emotion have been getting louder and more frequent of late.

is my chin still there? i can't feel it
is my chin still there? i can’t feel it

This is the picture Botox is using on their website to “prove” that one can still make facial expressions after being injected with their toxic sludge. This is the best photo that an expensive marketing campaign that presumably had hundreds of photos to choose from could come up with. This woman can barely open her mouth!

5 comments

1 june { 04.03.08 at 11:59 am }

Beneficial side effect: Botox will help you lose weight when you have to go on a liquid diet because you can no longer open your mouth wide enough to accomodate solid food!

2 NatashaVC { 04.03.08 at 12:11 pm }

I’ve always liked Virginia for some reason. she never seemed to get the roles she deserved. Now she’s shilling for Botox? People, do Oscar winning movies mean anything anymore? I blame Nick Cage. He won an oscar and then well…one word: BEES.

3 wonk-banned(twice!) { 04.04.08 at 12:20 am }

Holy shit in a handbag… I thought you were joking about the “freedom of expression” thing. Oh fuck, I get it, it was an April fool’s joke right? Why not get Joan Rivers… no, really….

4 Tess K. { 04.04.08 at 10:49 am }

yeah, one time i accidentally superglued my hand to my face and couldn’t move or my skin would tear, but really, everyone said I had this superhuman glow to me. i really have never felt more beautiful in my life. so i give two thumbs up for paralyzing beauty agents. one is still stuck on my cheek, but it really does make chugging SlimFast easier (i call it my extra slip grip).

5 Jack Monroe { 04.04.08 at 3:53 pm }

this chick sucked in that wine movie.

just saying…

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