Vegas aside.

[kickaha]

ginkgo and I have an ongoing game we like to call "Fake or Real?" which is exactly what you think it is.

Las Vegas offered an interesting variation. "Fake, Real, or Passing?" I know the Fakes outnumbered the Reals about 8:1, but the Passings may have also outnumbered the Reals in this case. Amazing.

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[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

WHY HAVE I NEVER BEEN TOLD OF THIS GAME?? I mean, I do this all the time, just not out loud. :p

Clearly, I need to hang out with you guys more. :p

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

M. and I play an abbreviated version of this game:

G: *drool*

M: Those are fake, you know.

G: Who cares?

Sometimes she will draw my attention to a particularly nice view that she thinks I've missed.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ginkgo has corrupted me. I didn't used to be a gawker (I mean, I *looked*, but I didn't *gawk*), but now? I'm so going to get my ass kicked some day. "I was looking at them for my wife! I *SWEAR*!"

Indeed

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Moving away from NC intensified my preference for the real. Fake is the norm up here as well - in faces as well as bewbs. Restalyne, silicone, Botox, nothing beats the movement and *aging* of real bodies for me. I want to see someone smile and know that they have smiled during their life.

Re: Indeed

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, while I am *all* about the cleavage, up here the views tend to be a bit... rigid. There's no *bounce*. And you are so dead right about the faces up here - if they're not scowling, they're locked into a deathmask. :P

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I cannot overestimate the utility of wraparound sunglasses, combined with good peripheral vision.

[flinx.livejournal.com]

Okay, it being Vegas, I'm left with a question about 'Passing'.

As in 'Passing Attempts at Real with Implants' or 'Passing Attempt at Femininity by Someone Once/Still a Man'?

Like I said, it being Vegas.

[badger.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, until I read the comments I thought your second description was the correct one, not the first.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I use it as an "on the bubble" category. One woman in an "athletic profession" was "passing" until she did a pirouette and her chest spun in two different manners. :D

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Vegas is a disturbingly vanilla place. :(

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Oh, the latter, definitely. Saw more than a few of those.

Aren't *all* implants an attempt at passing at real? I mean, I don't think anyone gets them with the intent of them *looking* fake, do they?

[flinx.livejournal.com]

I was leaning that way as well, but I figured I'd give it the benefit of the doubt.

[flinx.livejournal.com]

*chortle* OOops...

[flinx.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I'm not so sure. Some boob jobs are so screamingly obvious immediately that it's hard to take their owner seriously, no matter how good the surgeon. I have seen a few which I was later informed were deliberately under-inflated so as to leave a more natural feel, in addition to the enhanced look. It depends on to what extremes one wants to go...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

True, true... body mods in general are a broad spectrum. I suppose there are folks who go for the Z0MGFAK3!11 look deliberately for the added discrepancy value.

So wait - under-inflated looks more fake? Huh. I would have expected them to look better.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

There's the Housewife Boob Job and the Professional Job, IMO and observation. :)

[flinx.livejournal.com]

Err, 'enhanced look' as in 'definitely larger than before'. I certainly couldn't tell the difference from where I stood in those cases. I wasn't allowed to do quality-control testing. Strictly for research, you understand. My offers were merely smiled at. *sigh*

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

I know a few folks, women as well as men, that really, really like the overtly fake look. Balloons, you know. ;)