Vanity often makes people seek cosmetic enhancements. Asians are nipping, tucking, injecting, and implanting to widen eyes, plump up noses, and make lips fuller. Cosmetic surgery procedures that are popular include brow lift, eye lift, nose lift, liposuction on chin, jaw, and dental work.
The number of Asians subjecting themselves for remake is increasing by thousands yearly. Most cite low sense of beauty as the reason for going under the knife. The "stereotype model" features such as large eyes, high nose bridge, prominent cheekbones, and a thin lower jaw have caused the high demand for cosmetic surgeries.
Changing Facial Flaws with Cosmetic Surgery
Changing faces flaws with cosmetic plastic surgery can improve one's appearance. Cosmetic treatments such as laser resurfacing can reduce acne scars and pigmentation problems. Changing faces with cosmetic surgery can also eliminate signs of aging.
An anti-aging procedure that is very popular among the middle-aged group is eyelid lift. Eyelid surgery treats conditions such as “droopy eyelid” that makes seeing difficult due to the sagging lids covering the upper half of the black of the eyes. The eyelid lift pulls the skin up and back creating double fold eyelids that gives the eyes a fresher, more defined look. In Korea, more than half of the female population between the ages of 20 and 40 has had double-eyelid surgery.
Beauty Ads to Cosmetic Surgery
In Hong Kong, transit lines and train cars are full of flat-screens and multimedia billboards showing ads with stereotypical models and airbrushed celebrities. These ads emphasize beauty and youth as life enhancers, concepts that lure consumers without failure to spend billions of dollars on cosmetic products, diet programs, and plastic surgeries.
This is the way media influences people and their perceptions of beauty. Reality shows like Extreme Makeover, I Want a Famous Face and Beauty Colosseum tend to promote plastic surgery as an instant facial fix. As a result, Asians are lining up in cosmetic surgery centers for lips, eyelids, breasts, buttocks and nose enhancements.
Why does one needs cosmetic enhancements? “There is nothing wrong with wanting to enhance a beauty look. Even though they are already beautiful . . .” Psychiatrist Genuina Ranoy, M.D., assured Frances Amper-Sales in an interview on May 11, 2009 published on Spot.ph. Asian teens who want to imitate the looks of favored celebrities are also part of the long queue to cosmetic clinics. They bring with them photos of their idols to show surgeons the beauty look they desire.
Makeover with Cosmetic Surgery Boost Career and Confidence
Progress has also made people changed their view on cosmetic surgeries. Since competition is more intense in progressing communities, executives are trying to achieve the "total corporate" look. As a result, more men and women are now submitting themselves to plastic surgery procedures. At Shanghai Time Plastic Surgery Hospital, male executives are seeking nose jobs and eyelid lifts including hair and mustache implants.
“There is a need to have an extra edge over others and beauty could give people that advantage, especially in places where there are fewer jobs than the number of people chasing them," according to a Global Beauty Survey published in May 2008 at Synovate.com by Synovate, the market research arm of Aegis Group.
Good looks are very important in job interviews and in business interactions. While some would sit back, relax, and ignore aging signs, others see cosmetic surgery as an opportunity to remove the drooping eyelids, eye bags, and wrinkles. Men cite competition at work as the reason why they chose to go under the knife,” said Dr. George Sun, a Chinese-American plastic surgeon practicing in LA said to Vivian Po of New America Media.
Generally, recruiters favor better-looking people in job interviews and employers will definitely pick the better-looking person. As a result, more Asians are submitting to cosmetic surgeries because good looks are starting to play bigger roles in workplaces, in communities, in social scenes, and in relationships. The high demand reflects the growing acceptance of facial enhancements and body modifications.
"We live in a cruel society where everything is based on first impression," Alvin Goh of Singapore told Lisa Takeuchi Cullen in the article "Changing Faces" published on August 5, 2002 at Time.com. Alvin Goh had a double eyelid surgery to improve his beauty looks in the same way as others are having cosmetic procedures to enhance their features. Like it or not, looks do matter, and minor case of changing faces is no different from braces or teeth whitening.
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