Sunday, October 26, 2003
Top to toe - U.K. Guardian
Once plastic surgery meant just a facial nip and a tuck. But not any more. Now the whole body seems open to amendment, from hands to feet to belly buttons. Or how about a lower-body lift?
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Most new patients for cosmetic treatments and surgery are young professionals. People in their twenties and thirties are either more self-indulgent than their parents or just more comfortable spending serious money on their appearance. They no longer bat a false eyelash at luxury wrinkle creams costing £300, or Botox shots for £400 a pop, so it's only a short jump, the theory goes, to spending a grand on toe shortening. Or quite a few grand more on 'body contouring', the fashionable phrase for describing a substantial reshaping.
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Consider the popularity of primetime television programme Extreme Makeover which offers viewers a full body overhaul. The producers take an average-looking man or woman and revamp them from head to toe. The website proclaims: 'These men and women are given a truly Cinderella-like experience in which their wishes come true, not just to change their looks, but their lives and destinies.' The price tag tops £100,000.
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No matter how hard men pump iron, well defined pectoral muscle mass is hard to come by, which is why silicone implants are increasingly being used to enlarge the bulk and projection of the pectoral muscles. ...
[See also Stepford Is Us in the N.Y. Times]
Once plastic surgery meant just a facial nip and a tuck. But not any more. Now the whole body seems open to amendment, from hands to feet to belly buttons. Or how about a lower-body lift?
...
Most new patients for cosmetic treatments and surgery are young professionals. People in their twenties and thirties are either more self-indulgent than their parents or just more comfortable spending serious money on their appearance. They no longer bat a false eyelash at luxury wrinkle creams costing £300, or Botox shots for £400 a pop, so it's only a short jump, the theory goes, to spending a grand on toe shortening. Or quite a few grand more on 'body contouring', the fashionable phrase for describing a substantial reshaping.
...
Consider the popularity of primetime television programme Extreme Makeover which offers viewers a full body overhaul. The producers take an average-looking man or woman and revamp them from head to toe. The website proclaims: 'These men and women are given a truly Cinderella-like experience in which their wishes come true, not just to change their looks, but their lives and destinies.' The price tag tops £100,000.
...
No matter how hard men pump iron, well defined pectoral muscle mass is hard to come by, which is why silicone implants are increasingly being used to enlarge the bulk and projection of the pectoral muscles. ...
[See also Stepford Is Us in the N.Y. Times]
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