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Plastic Surgery - Had Any? Opinions?
forsythia12:
well, i for one, need a breast lift! apparently a breast lift is also like a tummy tuck, so i'd benefit!!!
lol!
sorry, but having kids did a number on my boobs!
but i would never never get plastic surgery. too scared.
have you seen Tara Reid? her stomach was butchered!
anyways, i just do the best i can with what i've got. excersize helps, and tones areas i'm not happy with.
as far as the face. well, it ain't perfect, but it's too risky, and too expensive to do anything about it. i think only thing that's ever appealed to me was some dental surgery, cosmetic of course. my teeth bug me, but still, i wouldn't have it done.
not having money also makes the decision for me!
i would not want my kids to ever go through it, so i'm hoping by not doing it is setting a good example.
again, i'm speaking only about voluntary cosmetic surgery, not surgery that fixes broken bones, or scars, or disfunctioning body parts.
Lumière:
I saw one or two episodes of "Extreme Makeover" and though some of the procedures performed on these individuals look very scary, they all pretty much look perfect and gorgeous during their "big reveal" - when they show their 'new' selves to their family and friends. I think that show is the biggest commercial for plastic surgery I've ever seen, lol, ... anyway..
There are plenty of young women out there who are beautiful, but who still seek to be perfect barbiesque beauties..
I remember watching a TV show called "Skin Deep" quite a while ago - the segment I saw was about a 16 year old girl getting breast implants... I remember thinking: (a) Isn't there an age limit to some of these procedures, (b) She is 16, for pete's sake, aren't breasts still growing at that point? :-\
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on March 07, 2008, 07:05:57 pm ---I think our celebrity culture, where you see lots of very young women -- already pretty enough to be stars -- getting plastic surgery, promotes the idea that people should go for as much physical perfection as money can buy.
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I wish we weren't so celebrity-obsessed in the first place.
I wish all magazine covers were forced by law to print a disclaimer on the front:
"Please be advised: Cover model enhanced with studio lighting, photoshop, airbrushing, etc, as well as a pound of make-up. Model did not wake up this morning (or any other morning for that matter) looking as shown on cover photo." :)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: AuroraLucis on March 07, 2008, 07:48:40 pm ---I wish all magazine covers were forced by law to print a disclaimer on the front:
"Please be advised: Cover model enhanced with studio lighting, photoshop, airbrushing, etc, as well as a pound of make-up. Model did not wake up this morning (or any other morning for that matter) looking as shown on cover photo." :)
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Here are two excellent videos showing the difference between what models look like in real life and what they look like in commercial photos. The first one, by Dove cosmetics, is particularly good because it's about both makeup and photoshopping. The second one focuses on photoshopping -- one of several on YouTube like it.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXf8fr0Kp3Q[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4wI_o8gyxA[/youtube]
forsythia12:
omg i wouldn't even know that was her in video #1!
delalluvia:
I take issue with the overwhelming retouching/photoshopping done by the media. It gives us such a distorted view of reality. The Dove one I'd seen before and it is basically showing that the people you see in ads don't really exist. No one looks like that. The second vid is showing the magic of retouching. Like the first vid, there's really nothing wrong with the way these people originally looked - they were just 'cleaned up' to a degree that's not real.
As for surgery, if someone wants plastic surgery to make themselves feel better about themselves, then more power to them. It's not ME going under the knife.
But I do think in some cases it's like false advertising. That show "Extreme Makeover' for example. I watched one couple turn from geeky low self-esteem Weight Watcher graduates into Brad Pitt and Helen Hunt.
I can just imagine them having kids and their kids growing up wondering why they have receding chins, no cheekbones, jughead ears, big beaky noses and tiny breasts when their parents look like Ken and Barbie dolls.
An explanation won't help their kids' self-esteem at all. You know how kids look up to looking like their parents. They'll expect to look like Ken or Barbie and wonder why they end up looking like Granny Babushka from the old country.
I know why even young women undergo plastic surgery - last I read, plastic surgeons were recommending a lifetime series of tweaking
e.g. get ABC done in your 20th decade, get XYZ done in your 30th decade, LMN done in your 40th decade, etc.
So that you don't go into the hospital looking like an old battle-axe one day and come back to work 6 weeks later looking like a New You. The idea is to tweak yourself over your lifetime, so you always look youthful and it's not an obvious thing you're getting 'help'. There's less traumatic operations and more minor ones.
I need to get my deviated septum fixed, because 85% of the time, day and night, I can't breathe through my nose. But so far, I'm more interested in paying for European vacations than a sinus scouring and breaking/resetting of my nose.
I can't say that I buy into the cultural youth thing, but I don't think wanting gravity to not take so vicious a hold is too much. I'm not asking for Breasts of Doom or the skin of 10 year old, I'd just like to not sag in some places when I've done nothing to deserve it except exist past my evolutionary shelf-life.
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