Perfecting
self-image
1st step to true beauty
Rita Kasha
Mesa Legend
Men and woman all over the world are turning to cosmetic surgery to boost up self-confidence. But plastic surgery does have mishaps, consequences, risks, and doesn’t always turn out the way expected.
People are looking for surgeons to make them look like what in their minds, is “perfect”. A smaller nose, bigger lips, smaller tummy, bigger butt, and the perfect chest, are all popular procedures done everyday.
Shows like the Swan, I Want a Famous Face, Dr. 90210, and Extreme Makeover, are all shows that have premiered to display the popularity of plastic surgery, and have only made the surgery more sought after. The shows don’t only show the glamorous side to cosmetic surgery, but they also show the gruesome process, and what happens when the patient starts to regret or hate what has already been done.
Lisa, 22, would rather keep her last name unidentified, says “I got a boob job at 18 as a graduation gift, and a nose job at 20. I don’t think I was too young, because I wanted to enjoy it while I was young. I didn’t feel comfortable with my body and I thought plastic surgery would boost up my self-confidence, and it did.”
Usually people only hear about the surgeries that have perfect results like Lisa’s. The surgery doesn’t always go as planned and there can be major side effects. There have been cases of nose jobs gone wrong and boob jobs with less than perfect results.
One individual picked a surgeon from a phone book with no research on the doctor and soon regretted it. After the patient got her nose job, she soon realized that her nose whistled. The doctor soon informed her that the surgery went wrong, and that it would be permanent. Another case was when a woman went to Mexico for a cheaper boob job. When the lady recovered, her nipples had fallen off. The doctor would do nothing to fix it. Cheap is what she wanted, but cheap quality, is what she received instead.
Every doctor will suggest that rather than only researching the price, instead research the doctor. Mexico can be cheaper, but if the end result is bad, the patient will be spending thousands more fixing it.
But women are not the only ones turning to plastic surgery to fix their imperfections. Society often forgets that women are not the only people in this world who are insecure with themselves. Men are as likely to get a surgical procedure done to them selves as well. Justin Porter, 19, says “Men can be just as insecure as any other person, but men tend to hide it better then women. They don’t seem to fish for complements like women do.” In 2003, men were known to have liposuction, nose jobs, eyelid surgery, breast augmentation, and hair transplantation.
According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the top five surgeries in 2003 were liposuction, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, rhinoplasty (nose job), and female breast reduction. These are just examples of many surgeries done everyday in America.
Americans spent 9.4 billion dollars on cosmetic surgery in 2003, alone. Americans spent 2.9 billion dollars for non-surgical procedures.
Society and Hollywood has given a mapped out look of how people should look if they want to be “beautiful”. No one believes being natural or being your self can be beautiful anymore. A great personality, a cheerful laugh, or a big heart doesn’t matter. Today people are looking for more on how beautiful they are on the outside instead of finding the beauty within.
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