Barracuda...brace face....invisalign!

BRACES THEN, INVISALIGN NOW!

My beautiful cousin, Raven and I were cordially invited to an Invisalign blogging group over here in Federal Way, Washington. Where we met other Washington bloggers as well as the Invisalign reps to have them share with us what exactly Invisalign is and how it benefits society today compared to wire braces.

Do we look like we need Invisalign??

It was 80's theme so we had to dress up like we were from the 80's...well myself was born in '88 so I think that partially counts but I had no idea what exactly to wear, so thank goodness the reps had props to show us how it's done.

Fish net fingers. Hell ya.

I know you would think that Alcohol would make Raven smile, but it was a long day for me so I choose alcohol and she takes shopping. But that girl has some serious style!

I remember when I was younger sucking my thumb for most likely 12-14 hours a day. 

Could not get enough of that delicious dirty, salty, wrinkley, opposable limb.

My right thumb was literally half the size of my left and I would always have to sneak sucking it

(that's what she said)

My dad would scare the shit out of me on how mad he was when he caught me sucking my thumb. Probably which intrigued me to do it more.

So by the time I was 11 and had most my adult teeth, I looked like a damn barracuda. All sticking out from my thumb being pressed up against the back. My bottom were all sideways from my hand resting on them forcing them around my hand just so I could suck that thumb like my life depended on it.

Beware of the images you are about to see of my f#$%ed up mouth

I am obviously on the left with the huge teeth and semi soon to be bushy thick eyebrows

DON'T HATE!

everyone has an awkward stage.

(I am seriously embarrassed but laughing my ass off at how disgusting that picture was)

Back in my days of this awkwardness I only had one option of getting the metal braces, with rubber bands, an expander, and then all the wax I could get my hands on while the brackets acted as some sort of death trap for the inside of my mouth to feel like warts and bleed constantly. 

Especially fun when I broke a wire and it went straight through me cheek.

awesome.

And when my dad was teaching me how to catch a baseball by putting the mitt right in front of my face. 

Smack! Blood! Stiches!

awesome.

BRACEFACE!!!!

crazy hair day ok. don't judge.

What I wouldn't have given to have invisalign and not that chunky crap taking up make out space I needed as a teenager.

Invisalign is virtually invisible..hence the obvious name. You wear the retainers for about 2 weeks then change them to the next set, your teeth slowly begin shifting and if need be any more correcting you can go back to your old set then restart.

Invisalign on a mold mouth

When you compare having smooth retainers to bulky metal you never have to worry about going in to get them tightened, a wire poking you, a bracket sticking to whoever you're sucking face with lips, or them getting an electrical current and opening your locker...

Everyone knows Brace face right?!

I had my braces for 4 years! With Invisalign some can be corrected in as little as 90 days!!! 

So which do you think works better??

Anyone have invisalign?? Or have had both??

After I had my braces off I of course had to go to the metal retainer, which wasn't that bad being that it was Zebra print with a Powerpuff girls stamp on it.

Still would have liked plastic trays so you couldn't tell. Oh well...maybe I will have to screw my mouth 

up once again and get the invisalign!

(don't ask why these pictures are 'squatty' I suck, ok)

But after 4 years and countless hiccups with stabbing, chaffing, breaking problems I finally got them off and absolutely love my smile!

Patron.

When we left our invisalign meeting I had made 10 new friends, realized that invisalign isn' just the "cheap" braces (as they do cost the same) but helps people get over the insecurity of the metal type, especially now having the teen invisalign to help straighten before they end up with a train wreck like my mouth did.

To learn more about Invisalign click here

I have been tweeting constantly about this sweet "beauty

 product and you can check out their twitter as well, here

Go and 'like' their page and give me a shout out if you would! here

KEEP ON SMILING!!!

*This was a sponsored post by Invisalign*