chicks dig scars...

[thwart]

OK, but not on themselves...

Anyway, this was in my Pinterest email today and got my attention... turns out this is Shoshauna Routley, a woman's pro. I have a similar deep road rash scar on the opposite cheek.

Thankfully it appears she had a nice recovery from this crash.

[Matthew]

Ouch!! Glad to hear she has recovered.

[vqdriver]

Yikes. I don't care how superficial it is, those always look super painful

On a related note, that medic needs to stay on target

[coffeecake]

On a related note, that medic needs to stay on target

LOL. That's Jono Coulter who was the team director for Happy Tooth Pro Cycling at that race.

[Vientomas]

Dude's mid blink :)

[Tony]

Pretty, scar or no scar.

[nooneline]

I got a similar raspberry on my cheekbone a week before my wedding... and all no skin on my knuckles either. Face and hands, the two parts of the body not covered by a suit, on probably the most photographed day of my life.

Oops.

[tv_vt]

Married to pro cyclist Will Routley.

Here's a pic of her (in article) post crash. Healing nicely.
http://www.cykelnmagazine.com/a-canadian-girl-who-ride-fast-shoshauna-routley-give-us-her-point-of-view-about-pro-cycling/

[pjbaz]

damn, yo!

[benb]

Maybe she had plastic surgery..

I have a super nasty scar on my knee.. for my knee, I toughed it out. My mother of all people bugged me for years to go see if a plastic surgeon could/would fix it.

If it was on my face, I sure as hell would have gone, no shame in getting it fixed.

That said.. my knee injury was really severe. Basically all my road rash after that I learned how to tend to the wounds carefully and they didn't scar.

(My knee thing was like 30 stitches, not your typical road rash.)

[thwart]

Maybe she had plastic surgery..

I have a super nasty scar on my knee.. for my knee, I toughed it out. My mother of all people bugged me for years to go see if a plastic surgeon could/would fix it.

If it was on my face, I sure as hell would have gone, no shame in getting it fixed.

It appears Ms. Routley healed up nicely (in medical lingo, 'she had a good cosmetic result') without further intervention.

I had a deeper, full thickness abrasion (road rash) on my left cheek in my '15 crash... in other words, no skin remaining. It gradually healed in, but to lessen scarring, I had 3 laser treatments several weeks apart. They did seem to help.

[beeatnik]

Chicks are legit.

[bitt3n]

If it was on my face, I sure as hell would have gone, no shame in getting it fixed.


There was a study recently suggesting that facial scars on men made them more attractive to women, whereas facial scars on women had no effect on their attractiveness to men.

[pncguy]

...whereas facial scars on women had no affect on their attractiveness to men.

That's exactly the result I would have expected...