Brazilians Turn to Botox to Wipe Away That Quarantine Frown

SÃO PAULO—With face masks obligatory across many Brazilian cities, the wealthy are relying ever more on Botox to get the perfect, wrinkle-free forehead. Beauty clinics say demand for the cosmetic treatment has as much as doubled here since the pandemic began.

“People now look each other in the eye more, in the eyes and the forehead—just where their wrinkles are,” said Aline Medici, who owns a franchise of 21 beauty clinics across Brazil, Ad Clinic, with her husband. Over the past few months, they struck deals to open another nine clinics, even as the country plunged into recession.

While face masks have brought scrutiny to the forehead and region around the eyes, the traditional areas for Botox injections, dermatologists also attribute the boom to videoconferencing. After months of staring at themselves during Zoom calls, Brazilians—many only in their early 30s—have emerged from lockdown convinced they need cosmetic help.

“I couldn’t bear looking at my face any longer,” said Deliza Costa, a 32-year-old sales executive, who had Botox injected in June. “It seemed like I was frowning the whole time. I ended up paying more attention to my face than the call.” Brazil was a world leader in cosmetic treatments even before the pandemic. With a fraction of the per capita income of rich nations, Brazil performed more plastic surgeries than any other country in the world in 2019, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. For nonsurgical procedures such as Botox, it ranked third, behind the U.S. and Japan.

Maybe write something more important like where the hell is hunter Biden ?

Priorities

Self indulgent twits

As vezes simplesmente não está acontecendo nada de importante e a correspondente é obrigada a escrever esse tipo de matéria.

Brazil has always been a cosmetic surgery leader. People don't even hide it. They walk around in public with nose bandages, etc.

Going

Yeah? But I will die pretty.

Snapchat filters give the best facelift ever. No shots, no slice, no dice.

Botox purpose for beauty, Beauty for joy & fun Beauty maintenance must have fund. Lucky guy, Having fun without spending his fund :-)

The President's massive contact-trace testing efforts(largest numbers of testing for any country in the world), find the hot spot source areas of infection to target them & keep the percentages low.

TrueCOVIDs:Apr Peakinfecs:35,000/day with175,000 tests/day or: 21% infecs; Aug Peakinfecs:70,000/day with 800,000 tests/day or: 8.2% infecs;Now:infecs:82,600/day with1.2 million tests/day or: 6% infecs (percentage infected now lower than Aug/much lower than April)

Trump’s Econ:Pre-COVID:CreatD7mill jobs4all; COVID:securD 4Trill aid:PaychkProtecProg2helpFams 11.5mill RetrnD 2wk,7.8%yetUnemployD;GoN Forward: Will cut taxes,deliverVaccine soon,Protect Amer jobs, contin2reduceGreenhouse withCleanNaturGas& keepenergy jobs2employ5mill,ReturnEcon

Biden’sEcon:4Trilltax hike,stifle jobs&give2other countries, retrofit/modify homes4GreenNewDeal,take down restrics onChina&giveOut Amer’sIntell property(technol),gr8 reducof Energy jobs:5mill blueCollar jobs gone(part of country in bigDepress),more regs&restrics,less Econ freedom

Botox purpose for beauty, Beauty for joy & fun Lucky guy, Having fun without spending his fund :-)

Beauty for fun, Beauty maintenance must have fund Lucky guy, Having Fun without spending fund :-)

I really wanted to try it now I’m not so sure. A friend gets Botox for migraines. I don’t get migraines.

all these dolls are gonna be wrecks when they reach their 50's

Guilty!

look

Originally created to inject & kill cancer directly butchered by nwo for idiocy of making $ instead of saving lives of people they poison with aiding nwo Jesuits Vatican2 invasion of Vatican 1 Catholic church

Women! (And men) your wrinkles look hotter than the plastic u put in your face. Or anywhere else. truth

Christians believe life is of God. Hence, life is the basis of all human rights. Protecting the life of the unborn and the life of all human beings precedes all other social issues which are a consequence of life.

Not me

Maybe just get someone to set your lighting up correctly? Good grief.

Evil Biden is ccp spy

Gawd-damn people

WheresHunter LaptopFromHell

How about a balaclava and ski goggles?

looks like trans woman now

nope. not putting needles in my face. Wisdom comes with age. this is what's killing people and they don't realize it. No thanks!

I’m sorry but I’m not into stepfordwife shit

My lipsticks are being wasted.. will I ever get to use them again 🤭

Weird, I'd think there's filters for that

gosh, all of this is nonsense. This could be soved by an application in zoom or the other programs.

Straight up I’m keeping up on that stuff it works

WSJ rejuvenation dry bar 💁‍♀️

Ladies alone will do it. Once the usually beautiful Brazilian women are thusly smoothed out, not a wrinkle will be found among wistful Brazilian men. All smiles I bet.

yeah but you can't wipe away that bland personality

AND YOU BOOT STRAPS Donald’s “WELFARE” CRISIS FUND *Funds his personal Rape Law suits using our TAX $$ *Uses SOCIALIST Healthcare funded by our TAX $$ to beat COVID19. *Financially supports HIS PERSONAL businesses using our TAX $$ *Gives his kids Federal Jobs paid with our TAX $$

DON’S BODY COUNT AS OF TODAY 230,086 of children, Moms & Dads as he continues his plan of “IT IS WHAT IT IS” DON’S PLAN of Herd Immunity will take 80% of the citizens to become infected resulting in US 3,310,026 DEATHS! Instead of fighting his CDC & FDA, HE SHOULD JUST BE HONEST!

Who cares enjoy wrinkley foreheads?

Mmmmm. Botulism.

Is the the WSJ or Woman’s Day?

Poison

really. THIS is what you're going with? pathetic.

What a totally pathetic typical WSJ article

Why the hell am I following this account when this is the nonsense you consider news?

Now we know who is responsible for spreading this disease in the air.

Or, just don't raise your eyebrows. That will keep those pesky forehead wrinkles away. Can't believe you waste your money on this reporter's salary.

Unbelievable amounts of privilege.

How convenient would a mask for the entire face be... for those who don't dare to show their face and speak up against the current insanity we're living.

There's a governor here on Brazil who loves Botox and Chinese kickbacks.

How many treatments till my face looks like a ln infected puffer fish?

How many can afford botox. Its effect lasts for only 8 months.

This is the type of news I’m here for.

or she just dropped her eyebrows?

Edifying.

Thanks WSJ. Really important reporting, here.

Don't scrunch up your forehead like lady in first shot, you'll be fine.

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Your newspaper is a joke.

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