"Botox-on-the-go"

While running errands or getting your nails done, why not stop by the local Botox Center for a quickie?

That's right, forget the appointments, forget the long waiting times. Just like you go to a nail salon to (primarily) get your nails done, you can now go to a Botox-only storefront office -- quick, easy, cheap(er) than the dermatologist, and you come out of the store looking years younger in 30 minutes (15 if it's a follow-up visit). This is even quicker than getting a manicure!

According to the New York Times article, "The Little Botox Shop Around the Corner," two plastic and reconstructive surgeons will be opening up a store front office offering just Botox injections in midtown Manhattan, across the street from Bloomingdale's (why not get a "younger you" to complement that outfit you just bought at Bloomie's?). You have to admit this idea is great - especially since their target audience for that location are the shoppers, those who live and work in the area (ie, they can get the injections during lunch hour), and even tourists who'd get the injections on a whim. In addition, there would be general practitioners with basic training and experience using Botox who would be administering the injections.

However, the one negative that some experts are concerned about is the fact that stores like this might trivialize the seriousness of these injections – ie. not everyone may be suitable for it and the injections should be administered by "dermatologists and surgeons who have extensive training in facial anatomy and aesthetics and long experience injecting Botox."

Do you think this will become the next "nail salon" phenom where we will see one every 5 blocks (in the city)?