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Though plastic surgery has grown in popularity, to encompass the common man and woman, the rich and famous are continuing to benefit from these procedures. People in the entertainment industry, especially, find that they can be more successful if they look their best. Many times looking their best means having some plastic surgery. The 2010 Grammy Awards showcased a wide range of celebrity cosmetic surgery results.

Many of the music business’s biggest stars attended the Grammy award ceremony and used their beauty to mesmorize the crowds. According to the plastic surgery website ,Make Me Heal, quite a few of the stars in attendance owed their dazzling affectations to plastic surgery. Among these were, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige and Fergie.

The Best Female Pop Vocal Performer, Beyonce has been rumored to have had a few cosmetic procedures to maintain that impressive look. Breast augmentation and possibly liposuction are on this list of surgeries. Plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn has said of Beyonce, “It does appear that her nose has been thinned to look more elegant. It matches her face well, is not overdone, and overall looks great. She has extraordinary grace in front of the camera.” Many young girls and women idolize the poise that Beyonce has and will turn to cosmetic surgery to try to match it.

Mary J. Blige stood out dramatically in her pink (fuchsia) dress at the Grammy awards. The 39 year old hip hop queen’s dress had a cutout which displayed her prominent breast implants. Her implants were not nearly as obvious, before she had lost a substantial amount of weight, now the tightness of her skin displays the shape of the implants very distinctly. The criticism that she once received because of her implants has diminished due to societies continually growing acceptance of cosmetic surgical procedures.

Lady Gaga, at 23 years old, won the award for best dance recording, for her song Poker Face. A fitting song to showcase her nose job and possible breast implants. Dr. Paul S. Nassil, a member of the California Society of Facial Plastic Surgery and rhinoplasty specialist, said, “Lady GaGa definitely had a rhinoplasty. It looks a little pinched, but not bad.”

Of all the celebrities gathered at the Grammy awards Black Eyed Peas singer, Fergie, is rumored to have had the most cosmetic procedures. Sources say that throughout her life she may have had, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, endoscopic brow lift, Botox injections, chin implants and cheek implants. Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a Miami plastic surgeon says , “Fergie look’s amazing at the 2010 Grammy’s. Compared to a year ago, her face seems softer and more rejuvenated. I suspect that she had some great skin care such as chemical peels and a touch of botox to give her face that flawless glow.”

Finding the right plastic surgeon has become easier for Americans. Many surgeons have created facebook pages for potential customers to visit. The pages include customer testimonials as well as blogs written by the surgeons themselves. Past patients are able to connect with potential patients to give them advice and share their experiences.

Facebook, privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc., is a social networking website which allows people to keep in touch. Each member is able to create a profile and send messages back and forth among friends. There are many networks that a person can join in order to network with cities, businesses, schools, and clubs. The website is free to users and generates money through advertisers. Facebook is often compared to myspace, another social networking website.

The rush to add plastic surgery to facebook has many benefits to both the surgeons and the patients. People are able to learn about different procedures and find the right one for them, right from the comfort of their home. They are able to connect with experts and get questions answered directly. This makes finding a plastic surgeon easy and convenient.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) is also on facebook. Their facebook page includes news about advances in the organization as well as blogs about what to expect from many different procedures. It has connections to other websites that are sponsored by the ASAPS including online journals and loan offers. Minutes from ASAPS meetings can even be viewed and people can keep up with everything that is going on in the plastic surgery field.

Some surgeons use other venues to promote their procedures. Twitter has become popularly used for updating people with new advances in surgeries and the benefits of different types of procedures. Some are even thinking of broadcasting the surgeries on the web. These patients would have their identities protected, while allowing others to see how the procedures are performed.

Modiface, a Canadian website, has a very innovative feature which allows potential patients to see how they will look after a procedure. People who are interested in facial surgery, are allowed to download a photo and then alter it to see what they will look like after a nose job or facelift. Other sites are considering adding the same features for whole body procedures.

Choosing a cosmetic procedure and finding the right surgeon has never been easier. Logging on to facebook can provide unlimited access to tons of information about plastic surgery.

There are many different ways that you can tell summer is here. Hayfever comes back with a vengeance, the wafting smells of barbeques seem to be in the air every time you want to hang the washing out and, of course, Big Brother returns to our screens for yet another year on wannabe-celebrity action. 

Plastic and Cosmetic surgery enthusiasts will have noticed that it’s not just the personalities which are fake in this year’s series; there’s an awful lot of plastic surgery been going on as well. When they’ve not been plotting or hurling abuse at each other, the housemates have actually found time in their busy schedules to discuss plastic surgery.

Two of the housemates, Freddie Fisher and Sophie Reade have been killing some of their spare time by discussing the times that they have gone under the knife.  Both have had successes with the stories and the producers of the program might have been disappointed to find that there were no horror stories which might have helped boost the ratings.  Freddie revealed that he’d had a nose-job, or rhinoplasty as you all know it’s called within the industry, which he described as “nice”.  His fellow housemate Sophie has also admitted to surgery, which she did before actually entering the house, saying that she had undergone breast enlargement and augmentation surgery. Sophie is one of two glamour models within the house and the series has so far seen a battle for attention between the two girls.  Surgery professionals may well be hoping that, with stories of success being broadcast on national television, that more people may well decide to have surgery. Plastic or Cosmetic surgery has long been used in the world of celebrity, or indeed by the world of people attempting to make themselves celebrities, as a way of enhancing or beginning a media career.

Breast augmentation surgery and rhinoplasty are two of the most popular invasive surgeries on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s not only popular with the wanabees, but also with regular people who simply want to boost their confidence and start to enjoy their life a lot more.  With this series of Big Brother only just getting under way, we may well be treated to more discussions of plastic surgery in the coming weeks but don’t worry, if you really can’t bring yourself to watch the whole thing just keep checking back here for updates.

20 years ago very few really knew about cosmetic surgery. It was something exotic, something strange and scary which only the uber-rich and the uber-famous really engaged with.

Those days are gone and now a startling new survey has found the extent of our plastic surgery knowledge. Amazingly, more people know the correct medical term for a nose job, rhinoplasty, than know the location of the stomach in the human body!  Quite how much this says about the British education system as well as our national obsession with plastic surgery is open to debate.

The study was run by Yakult, and found that a mind-blowing 80% of people knew the term rhinoplasty but less than 66% could pick out the stomach on a diagram. Nutritionist Fiona Hunter commented on the findings saying that: “People are bombarded with health messages from a variety of different sources – from friends, family and the media through to food manufacturers and retailers so I’m not surprised people are often confused. It’s important that people remember that nutrition is an evolving science and as such we are constantly fine-tuning the message”. Ah, so we can breathe a sigh of relief, we are not to blame for our ignorance after all, it’s the fault of the media and, well, isn’t it always? 

Companies like Yakult are hoping to get the message across that nutrition and being aware of how our bodies work is as important to looking and feeling great as cosmetic surgery is. Indeed a healthy and balanced diet can be a much cheaper way to physical perfection.  It would seem that the British public have not yet cottoned on to this idea yet though and Hunter is right that the message will have to be fine tuned in order to win more people over.

Nose jobs, or rhinoplasty as most of you will probably call it now, is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures in the world. It’s mainly favoured by women but men, most infamously Michael Jackson, have also been known to go under the knife in the name of nasal narcissism.  The perfect nose doesn’t come cheap, with prices starting at around £3000 but it is probably the most noticeable physical feature on anybody and thus it can certainly be money well spent. Thus it would seem cosmetic surgery is no longer something to turn your nose up at; it is something which has entered the conscious of the British public.

With inflation and job losses I know people are looking at ways to save money. I even asked Dominos if they had any 2 for 1 deals on last night’s takeaway pizza but you have to draw the line somewhere and this goes way way beyond. Our lawyer advised us to advise you not to try any of this at home before you have undertaken medical training or at least put the scissors in a jug of hot water first.

Injectable Treatment – Recycle that deep fat fryer waste oil.
DIY can take many forms, but the most extreme self plastic surgery I’ve ever heard is a case of a Korean woman who had been paying for plastic surgery for years, was forced into treatment for a mental disorder, but was able to find a surgeon who let her give herself her own injections. When she ran out of silicon she took to injecting cooking oil into her face.

Abscess - Roll up your sleeves and dig in
You are on a Round the World Yacht Race stuck in the middle of the ocean and you have an abscess on your arm. This was the problem Russian sailor Viktor Yazykov faced and if he did not do something quickly he was going to lose his arm. He did what we would all do and emailed an infectious disease specialist at the New England Medical Center who told him how to drain the abscess and he carried on his race finishing 10th. Rather you than me Viktor!

Mole Removal – This guy slices like a pro.
Apart from being a little furry mammal that has big paws and dig holes in our lawns they also grow on our skin. That looked a pretty big mole and to be even considering doing it yourself is insane and one of those things really are best left to the professionals. I wonder what he did with it…yeeeeeew!!!. I have a strong stomach and even I had to have two go’s at watching the actual slice.

WARNING THIS VIDEO IS NOT FOR THE SQUEEMISH AND MAY CAUSE YOU TO SEE YOUR BREAKFAST AGAIN

Ear Correction - Superglue has many uses, sticking body parts together is not one.
Using superglue was never going to be permanent solution for correcting prominent ears. Yes I sympathize with those who suffer from this, you must think everybody is going to flick them and have heard every big ears joke under the sun.  I have accidentally attached two fingers together with superglue whilst trying to squeeze the last out of a dried up old tube and it burst out the sides, but with enough hot water and chewing it will come undone. Your life must be very cruel to drive you to think that your bat ears are going to stop flapping with nothing more than a household glue. We have found worrying number of cases reported in medical journals of this going on and I guess as the recession hits a couple of dollars for a tube of glue versus several thousand dollars for surgery is an attractive option for some.

Brain Surgery - Just one question..Why?
We have all heard the expression “She/he is no brain surgeon” well this is taking it too far to prove a point. Heather Perry from Gloucester in England attempted to cure her chronic fatigue syndrome by travelling to the US for her “brain surgery” . It seems it all started following an email exchange with a guy in Pennsylvania who said he did his own. All we know is that it consisted of drilling two holes in her own head. It is said that a film crew filmed her DIY brain surgery but we have been unable to locate it (okay we didn’t try that hard to find it) To her surprise it all went wrong and she drilled too deep and needed to have emergency surgery to repair damage to severed membrane that protects brain tissue.

Tattoo Removal – Desperate people do desperate things.                                                     
No home DIY surgery kit is complete without power tools and an electric sander is a must for removing that “Bubba & Crystal Forever” tattoo.  It does make you wonder what other extremes people will go to rid themselves of their body art. Anyone for a wire brush and a sheet of sandpaper?

Chicken Bone Nose Job - All you need is a chisel and a KFC
Not many people will have looked in the mirror and thought “If only I had chicken bone for a nose I would be happy.” According to Dr David Veale who is a psychologist at the celebrity Priory Hospital in London the unnamed patient “pushed a chisel up his nose and then replaced the cartilage he had taken off with a chicken bone” and continued “These are people who can’t afford to go to a surgeon.” Did anyone ask if he calls it his nose or his beak?

Yacht photo by S Parker
Nose Photo by Leina Simpson