South Korean women have become so immersed in western celebrity culture that double eyelid surgery, which creates the Caucasian crease many Asian women don’t naturally have, has become as common as going to the dentist. Overtaking Brazil as the plastic surgery capital of the world, South Korea now has the highest number of surgeries performed per capita. Going behind the scenes of Seoul Fas…
Oct 25 2012 | Posted in
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esenting 39% of total expenditures. The top five minimally-invasive procedures were: • Botulinum Toxin Type A: 3,257,913 • Hyaluronic Acid: 1,423,705 • Laser Hair Removal: 883,893 • Microdermabrasion: 498,821 • Chemical Peel: 443,824 This is the second year this survey asked the doctors for the total number of non-surgical procedures being performed in their practices by both physicians and their…
Dinora Rodriguez has gone public with her “botched” breast enhancement operation in a bid to warn other women about the dangers of using an unqualified plastic surgeons. Dinora Rodriguez, from Los Angeles, California, was left with a “uniboob” after her breasts were conjoined by skin. The 40 year-old woman also had a nip-tuck operation on her eyelids that has meant she is unable to close them. D…
Courtney Stodden has decided to put an end to speculation that she has undergone a substantial amount of plastic surgery to her face. Courtney Stodden, 18, sets out to prove that she is 100% natural in a new video. Accompanied by her 52-year-old husband Doug Hutchison, Courtney Stodden heads into the office of Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Marc Mani for an examination. Sporting her trademark…
Oct 17 2012 | Posted in
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Vanilla Chamu is a Japanese model who has undergone a startling physical transformation that has so far involved more than 30 cosmetic procedures at a cost of 10 million yen ($102,000) just to look like a French doll. Vanilla Chamu has said she intends to keep having surgeries until she has achieved her lifelong goal. Photos of Vanilla Chamu prior to her first procedures reveal a rather mousy Jap…
May 4 2013 | Posted in
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…lammed by Anderson Cooper after she revealed she is giving her teenage daughter Botox injections Sarah Burge, who has spent more than $800,000 on her own surgical enhancements, first made headlines in 2010 when she confessed to teaching her then six-year-old daughter to pole dance. And she has since been in the spotlight numerous times – for all the wrong reasons. Last year Sarah Burge, who…
May 23 2012 | Posted in
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Vanessa Bryant has denied that she has been under the surgeon’s knife after reports suggested she had sought cosmetic help to stop philandering husband Kobe from straying. Vanessa Bryant’s representatives have blasted the allegations as “100 per cent not true” and “ridiculous”. During her appearance at the London Olympic Games, Vanessa Bryant, 30, set tongues wagging that she had undergone…
Aug 16 2012 | Posted in
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Valeria Lukyonova, a Ukrainian model, is making waves in the US, not for her natural good looks however, but for her cosmetically-enhanced Barbie looks that have turned her into a living doll. Valeria Lukyonova, 21, became an internet sensation after a video was released about the epic plastic surgery procedures she allegedly underwent to transform into a real-life Mattel doll. Now Valeria Lukyon…
Nov 13 2012 | Posted in
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Herbert Chavez, from the Philippines, has had extensive cosmetic surgery to make him look more like Superman Herbert Chavez, from the Philippines, has had extensive cosmetic surgery to make him look more like Superman. Herbert Chavez, 35, a Superman fan, has dramatically changed his appearance using plastic surgery to look more like his favorite super-hero. Herbert Chavez has undergone a…
Oct 7 2011 | Posted in
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Justin Jedlica spent about $100,000 on between 90 and 100 surgeries so that he could become a living Ken doll. “I’ve always been into plastic surgery because it’s an extension of me being creative,” 32-year-old Justin Jedlica said during an interview on The Doctors television show. Among his surgeries were five rhinoplasties, a cranial brow bone shape and augmentations to his cheeks,…
Dec 17 2012 | Posted in
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…t surgery According to a survey conducted by OnePoll, 25% of men now have beauty treatments such as facials, massages and manicures more than once a fortnight, while the average man now spends between 40 and 60 minutes getting ready to go out. The phenomenon has also led to a rise in waxing, with a third of men admitting to “manscaping” – removing hair from their groin area. Escentual founde…
May 18 2013 | Posted in
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…ed cooking oil into her face when doctors refused to give her any more silicone During the first of 10 operations, surgeons removed 60 g of silicone, oil and other foreign substances from her face and 200 g from her neck. However, Hang Mioku is still disfigured and she said she wishes she could have her old face back. Hang Mioku had her first procedure aged 28 and then moved to Japan where she had…
May 9 2013 | Posted in
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Labiaplasty – plastic surgery for female genitalia – has been called the “final frontier” of cosmetic surgery. Shannon, a 23-year-old woman has openly shared her experiences of labiaplasty on CBS’s show “The Doctors”. The Doctors, aired yesterday on CBS, featured Shannon, who wanted nothing more than to correct her “painfully long labia”. The…
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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n workers have reported to work this morning,” a spokesperson for the South Korean Unification Ministry said. The ministry added that 77 South Korean workers would leave the zone on Tuesday, but 479 were still inside Kaesong. Kaesong complex was launched in 2003 and was largely funded by South Korea. Seoul has said the purpose of the complex was to develop a joint industrial park where South…
The South Korean navy has fired warning shots at North Korean fishing boats that crossed disputed borders in the Yellow Sea, reports say. No shots hit the vessels which retreated, said an Associated Press report citing an unnamed official with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The official also said that no North Korean navy ships were involved. The South Korean navy has fired warning s…
…t of the 200 cases involved in the studies went home within four to six hours of treatment. In particular, one trial, conducted at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, showed that there was an average 30% reduction in the size of the gland after treatment. Another, based on 84 men who were followed for nine months after the operation, reported a 98.5% success rate, with 91.7% of patients saying th…
Aug 12 2012 | Posted in
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…n, or what airline the man was travelling on, but it is more than likely it was an El Al aircraft flying out of Tel Aviv, which is surrounded by a number of cemeteries, according to internet users. In 2001, El Al Airlines decided not to allow ultra-Orthodox Jews cover themselves in plastic because “flight safety considerations do not allow for passengers to board while covered in sealed plastic ba…
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uesday. A total of 125 South Koreans left the joint Kaesong complex in North Korea on Saturday, and the remaining 50 were expected to leave on Monday Kaesong Industrial Complex, which was launched in 2003 to boost inter-Korean ties, is a factory park situated just inside North Korea. It is home to 123 South Korean companies which employ North Korean workers, and provides the North with much-neede…
…sity surgery had different bacteria in their guts, with an increase in types usually seen in lean individuals and a drop in types associated with obesity. Three weeks after surgery they had lost about 30% of their bodyweight, the researchers reported in Science Translational Medicine. There was little change in micro-organisms present in the mice who had had sham operations, even though the group…
Mar 28 2013 | Posted in
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…tary provocations, they said they saw no imminent sign of any such attacks. On Saturday, cross-border traffic operated as normal, allowing hundreds of South Koreans to travel to and from Kaesong. Over 300 South Koreans remained in the complex, where 123 South Korean textile and other labor-intensive factories employ the North Korean workers, at an average monthly wage of $144. The fate of Kaesong…
…ority and the South Korean government will take necessary measures based on this principle,” he said. The entry ban is not unprecedented – South Koreans were briefly denied access in March 2009 because of US-South Korea military exercises. North Korea, which has been angered by UN sanctions imposed after its recent nuclear test and annual US-South Korea military drills, threatened to s…
…d, prior to the photographs being shown which featured her with her dog and with her husband. Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson, who shot to fame after tying the knot back in May when she was just 16-years-old and the actor 50, also discuss their recent removal from a local pumpkin patch due to her revealing attire Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson, who shot to fame after tying the knot bac…
new appearance. Over thirty physicians, plastic surgery doctors, orthopedists, anesthesiologists and nurses contributed to the full face transplant procedure which was performed on May this year. In 2009 Charla Nash suffered terrible injuries after Sandra Herold’s 200-pound (91 kg) pet chimpanzee, Travis, attacked her. It ripped her lips, nose and eyes and it tore her hands making her defa…
The first breast augmentation operation using silicone implants took place 50 years ago. Now the procedure rates as the second-most popular form of cosmetic surgery worldwide, undergone by 1.5 million women in 2010. It was spring 1962 when Timmie Jean Lindsey, a mother-of-six lay down on the operating table at Jefferson Davis hospital in Houston, Texas. Over the next two hours, she went from a B…
…End. The opening of Viva Forever! will coincide with that of The Bodyguard, a musical based on the 1992 Whitney Houston film that opens at the Adelphi in December. The Spice Girls topped the charts in 31 countries with their 1996 debut single Wannabe and went on to sell more than 75 million albums worldwide. The group created the 1990s mantra “Girl Power” and starred in their own featu…
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