4x why May chose the old-fashioned braces

“What old-fashioned!” This was exclaimed by a fellow fashion journalist (I won't name names, but it starts with a B and he just lost sixty kilos) when he saw my braces. Everyone has an Invisalign brace and I don't. He had me pegged higher, but believe me: this is a conscious choice. I seriously considered Invisalign, but still chose this option.

1. The price, people

I called the Invisalign the Hermès of braces. It is, but it also costs one and a half Chanel bags while my braces have the price tag of a Jérôme Dreyfuss. That's the man of Isabel Marant who makes the coolest and most affordable bags.

2. The duration

An Invisalign takes longer. In my case, it would be a year, while with braces I would be done in half a year. Appearance-wise.

3. Discipline

You have to take out the Invisalign at every meal and then dutifully put it back in. I have the backbone of a licorice lace and the organizational skills of a drifting maybug, so I would throw it out immediately, coward that I am, if I had even ‘something‘ important, and then the chance would be a generous 95% that I would lose my case. With braces, I'm in that funnel, I can't take it out and that's just as well.

4. This one is really okay

I have clear braces, so it doesn't show. Right? Tell me. And I have the cutest dentist with a specialization in orthodontics. So we have a great time in the chair.