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Plastic Surgery For "Designer Vaginas" Is on the Rise

TresSugar — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0800

It's hard to believe that although women have enough to worry about, some of them worry about having perfect-looking genitals. "Designer vagina" surgery such as labioplasty is still on the rise. A procedure like labioplasty, which starts at $5,000, involves trimming back what might be perceived as a protruding labia. Yikes.

Some critics say that many women go into these surgeries without fully understanding the risks. Will there be complications in childbirth? Will these surgeries affect sexual pleasure? These critics also question whether anyone in the medical community should even perform surgeries to "trim, sculpt and perfect" genitals. Perhaps, they reason, women should get psychological counseling instead of genital cosmetic surgery. (The desire to "perfect" your genitals could be a sign you have body dysmorphic disorder.)

If looking at a picture of a thin, perfect model makes some women seek "perfection" by dieting or exercising, where exactly are women getting their ideas of what a perfect vagina looks like? Porn? Help me out here.

Très Bizarre: Plastic Surgeon Sculpts His Perfect Bride

TresSugar — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:15:00 -0800

This story is très bizarre and très depressing. When plastic surgeon Reza Vossough met his future bride Cany, he identified a few areas for improvement - specifically, her chest, thighs, eyes, lips, butt, stomach, and forehead. Lucky for Reza, once he and Cany got married he performed eight procedures that would turn his 33-year-old wife into his "perfect woman."

Speaking about his work, Reza said: "It's almost like being God - you have the ability to change nature." No promise that it will look natural, however. And don't feel too bad for Cany. She seems pretty happy, explaining that when you marry a plastic surgeon, "the scalpel is your friend."

I guess the old adage that you can never really change someone isn't true in this case.

Not Fake: Hungary Crowns Miss Plastic Surgery

TresSugar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0700

Perky contestants vied for the crown of Miss Plastic Hungary this week. Only women who have gone under the knife were invited to participate in the artificial-beauty pageant held in Budapest. Botox wouldn't qualify you, but one contestant's surgically adjusted toes did get her included. Reka Urban, 22, won the (plastic?) crown, and she received an apartment in Budapest as her prize. Check out this video from the contest, and tell me what you make of such an unabashedly fake beauty pageant!

British Men Desperate For Moob Jobs

TresSugar — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:00:00 -0700

American women may want bigger boobs, but British men want smaller ones - on themselves, that is.

Turns out there was a 44 percent increase year over year in men who want to get rid of their larger-than-normal "man boobs," aka moobs. A moob job to reduce their size is now the fifth most popular cosmetic surgery procedure for men.

"We are seeing men of all ages coming in to have their breasts made smaller," said plastic surgeon Douglas McGeorge, including one grandfather who had never removed his shirt on the beach because he was embarrassed about the size of his chest.

Men really are the new women. The other procedures more popular than moob jobs for British men? Nose jobs, eye lifts, ear pinning, and liposuction.

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Très Bizarre: Woman Pleads Guilty to Illegal Butt Implants

TresSugar — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0700

Hoping to put the whole ordeal behind her, Florida woman Sharhonda Lindsay plead guilty this week to administering illegal silicone butt injections. While the idea of butt implants might make you chuckle, Sharhonda's crime is pretty scary. Two women were hospitalized with serious injuries as a result of the dangerous at-home procedure.

Since she took a plea deal, Sharhonda avoided a potential 10 years in prison for practicing medicine without a license. Instead, she'll be on probation for four years.

Considering all the things that can go wrong with plastic surgery, I can't believe some women would resort to a bootlegged version!

At Last - The Miss Plastic Hungary Beauty Contest

TresSugar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:00 -0700

"Ever had plastic surgery to become beautiful? Are you proud of your body? Would you like to put yourself to the test?"

If so, asks this website, perhaps you should enter the Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant where women age 18 – 30 (if you’re above 30 you’re in the “dame” category) can compete against other women who have gone under the knife.

In this Bizarro World contest, unlike in other beauty contests, having gone under the knife is not grounds for disqualification - it’s a contest requirement. Botox, by the way, doesn’t count. "The entry requirement," says Reka Bodis, press director of the pageant, "is a surgical procedure done under general or local anesthesia." It's quite “natural,” she continues, to stage such a contest now that so many beautiful women get plastic surgery and prices are more affordable. Hungary is a tourist destination for many in the UK, where plastic surgery prices can be prohibitively expensive.

The contest is open to non-Hungarian contestants as well as Hungarian beauties and debuts October 9.

Say What? Why Teen Wants a Boob Job

TresSugar — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00:41 -0700

"The things I don't like about my body are my breasts. . . . I spend almost 100 percent of my life thinking about it."

- 13-year-old Kianna explains why she thinks a boob job will improve her self-esteem. She says she's envious of her more-developed friends who don't stand out like she does.

A new survey reveals that nine out of ten of teenage girls in the UK are unhappy with their bodies. In a recent program, the BBC had young girls considering plastic surgery, like Kianna, meet with women who have regrets about their own surgeries. After the experience, Kianna changed her mind for now.

Source: Flickr User This Is A Wake Up Call

Très Bizarre: Bagel Face Body Modification

TresSugar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:15:00 -0700

Would you like a lox schmear with that bagel in your forehead?

Club kids in Japan are kicking extreme body modification up a notch by having lumps and bumps injected into their foreheads (and other body parts) via saline inflations or injections of saline into bags that are inserted under the skin. These self-inflicted deformations (like the bagel face saline implantations above) look insane, but they can be deflated by the next day. Want to find out about other body modifications? read more.

Extreme body modification isn't new. A search led me to an illuminating list of body modifications, illuminating because they range from the mainstream and mundane to the culturally specific to the OMG they do not do that! You might be surprised, for example, that getting your ears pierced or practicing body building is considered body modification, but technically, that's what those are.

Culturally specific practices of body mods include the old Chinese practice of foot binding or Kayan women with stacked neck rings. And then there are modern body modifications I'd rather not think too much about: scrotal implants, eyeball tattooing, tongue-splitting, and the baffling practice of trepanation, or drilling a hole into the skull.

We live in a world where people have plastic surgery to conform to certain ideals of beauty, so even though I would never have a saline inflation put in my forehead to look like I have a bagel in it (and I would probably gasp if I saw someone who did), I think there's something interesting about body modifications to debeautify or to look nonhuman (like the horns or wings you can get through plastic surgery to look like devils or angels).

Is all this too freaky for you, or do you think it's cool?

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Boob Jobs Offered to Job Seekers - Hilarious or Horrifying?

TresSugar — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Health insurance, an easy commute, flexible hours, or a simple paycheck might attract you to a job these days, but an understaffed health clinic in Prague is using free plastic surgery to lure doctors, nurses, and secretaries.

New employees who sign a three-year contract can choose between free breast implants, liposuction, or tummy tucks. Breast implants typically cost three times the average nurse's monthly salary, so it's a great deal!

Does this sounds like a good perk (pun intended)?

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Plastic Surgeons: The Economy Is Affecting Us

TresSugar — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:30:00 -0700

“Business has definitely been flat,” says Dr. Brian Kinney, a plastic surgeon from (surprise!) Los Angeles. And he's not talking about his breast augmentation patients.

At the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, plastic surgeons expressed relief that although the economy has contributed to the slowdown of the number of cosmetic procedures in the US last year (falling 12.3 percent to just over 10.2 million), more patients are opting for nonsurgical procedures. Botox, its new competitor Dysport, and soon-to-be-on-the-market muscle-numbing creams will all provide revenue as the demand for invasive surgery wanes ever so slightly. What else is going on in the world of plastic surgery? To find out, read more.

There is one segment of the population in which plastic surgery is on the rise: among nonwhite patients. Describing nonwhites as having long been "underserved," Dr. Julius Few, an African-American plastic surgeon from Chicago, says that when he was growing up, it seemed "unfair" that plastic surgery was available primarily to wealthy white people - but things are changing.

So basically, what we are to take from this news story is that no matter what, plastic surgeons can count on women to spend money enhancing their looks somehow, and now nonwhites, too, have the itch for invasive plastic surgery! Note the rhetoric Dr. Few uses - "underserved, unfair" - as if being able to get plastic surgery were equivalent to getting basic health care.

I wonder sometimes what Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, would think about the mainstreaming of plastic surgery. Not only do few women critique plastic surgery, but some have in fact embraced it as an almost necessary part of being a woman, like wearing a bra or having a period.

Wolf's discussion of plastic surgery in The Beauty Myth was was under an interesting rubric: violence. Why, she wondered, are so many women willing to spend money they might not have to go under the knife - and even risk death - to have a smaller nose, larger breasts, or conform to a beauty ideal?

What do you feel about the mainstreaming of plastic surgery?

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