Plastic Surgery : The Image Of Plastic Surgery

In “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery,” by Camille Paglia, she argues that American surgeons are being too narrow minded with their work because they use the same models as a representation of what their clients can look like. She suggests that getting plastic surgery has become such a normal thing in America and that society pushes women to get work done in order to get that “perfect” look. Paglia also points out that plastic surgery has “leveled the playing field” with wives and their husbands mistresses (694). Also, she believes that plastic surgery is not only critical in keeping a job, but also in keeping a relationship. Although I agree with some of Paglia’s arguments, I view some of the issues differently such as, needing plastic surgery to keep a marriage, that plastic surgery is for non intellectuals, that Hollywood’s environment encourages women to change their looks, and that nothing good can come out of plastic surgery.

Can we really expect teenagers to make good decisions at this age? Adolescents have enough on their plate with grades, part-time jobs, and college applications. Bullying is one thing no one should go through, especially at this age, but there are ways to stop it. In Source A, one in two teenager who are as young as thirteen want plastic surgery to change their appearances, but I do not believe that plastic surgery is the best solution for bullying. If teens are allowed to receive plastic surgery, they will end up either obsessed or

I was standing there on the cabin porch as she laughed, raising her hand, pointing at my face and saying in front of a dozen other people, “He looks like an elf! Ha ha ha ha!” I was born with ears that are a little different and one side is a little different than the other. On top of that, the tumor removed from jawline left me with an even greater “different looking” circumstance to deal with everyday. Plastic surgeons can’t do much for me.

In the article “Plastic Surgery Junkies: Why Are Perfectly Pretty Women Getting Hooked” by Sally Davis, explained how perfect women are getting changes done to their bodies when it's not needed. She describes how people today are obsessed with their flaws and what people think about them just to fit in. She also said that the main reason people felt the need to change themselves was because of the use of technology and the idea of looking like a model and celebrity.

Diane Stresing discusses about the addiction in cosmetic surgery. She explains why people are addicted to cosmetic procedures. According to her article, the addiction is more psychological than physical. The reason leading to a cosmetic surgery addiction is the psychologic problem named Body Dysmorphic Disorder, which makes patients feel unsatisfied with the surgery’s result and leads them to temptation getting another surgery. According to the article, patients have BDD might spend much time for hiding their defects, then they have cosmetic surgery. However, patients with BDD feel unhappy and uncomfortable

Plastic surgery is one of the most controversial topic today. But the real question is, what is the reason? Beauty is one of the main things America celebrates, and reality tv is slaving our minds into believing if you’re not pretty, you will not make it big, whether in the television industry or not. A study published by APF found that attractive real estate agents were able to sell homes at a higher price than marketers that were not attractive. Other companies have explored the matter, and they have found beautiful people tend to make money and get promotions more often. Jobs like modeling have destroyed most people’s self-confidence. When people began to complain about people being more beautiful than others, we came up with a solution:

Patients opting for cosmetic surgery have a face in mind and it is usually a celebrity’s. In Abby Ellin’s article, several patients got plastic surgery just to look like a certain person. For example, 41 year-old Deborah Davenport spent 15,000 dollars on shaving cartilage from her nose, adding botox to her forehead, and pumping dermal filler into her cheeks to look like Kate Winslet (Galileo). While Ms. Davenport looked perfectly normal after her procedures, most often than not, people who get plastic surgery to imitate a celebrity usually end up disastrous. Kevin Fallon’s article mentions Claire Leeson, a woman who spent over 30,000 dollars on surgery to look like Kim Kardashian. The final result was admittedly dreadful (thedailybeast.com). While Davenport and Leeson had different results from their celebrity look-alike procedures, both claimed to be much happier after the surgery (Galileo, thedailybeast.com). Even if the face is not what would be considered actually beautiful, just the fact that the face resembles a celebrity seems to influence the perception that it is perfect anyway. This fascination and surety that celebrities contain the holy grail of external beauty reflects upon our certainty that there is a specific standard of beauty, and in order to fit in, we must perfect ourselves to meet this standard.

Ears: I felt like my ears were a little bigger than normal people and I still remember

As the world continues to evolve, plastic surgery is becoming increasingly more acceptable. Since I am a journalism and film and video major, I always try to connect things back to how the media play a role in the issue. I believe that the media has an effect on people in a numerous of ways. It is very persuasive, and it sends messages to people without being completely obvious all of the time. So why not the same with cosmetic surgery? A lot of teenagers are starting to see cosmetic surgery as an option to alter something they do not like. Times have changed and made it more culturally acceptable, and I think it is because of the media.

Plastic surgery is becoming really common and popular among the Hollywood stars now a day. In fact, the Hollywood stars are becoming really curious about their physical appearance and their overall looks. Well, when someone is a part of this glamorous industry of the Hollywood, she is expected to look pretty and gorgeous. What we can say about this fact is that their charm and beauty is a kind of source of bread and butter for them especially in the case of female stars. When it comes to the female stars, these female Hollywood stars actually cross all the limits and boundaries to stay young and hot.

“Sydney is cute but she has such tiny eyes… When she’s old enough, maybe she can consider double-eyelid surgery,” my family members would collectively suggest to my mom, as if her child was born with an unnatural defect. Not only was their opinion affecting my

In a society so consumed by the ideology of beauty, it makes sense as to why so many women these days undergo cosmetic surgery. The definition of beauty has long been obstructed and changed. In the past, if you look at the woman, you will see they are curvy, during this era being thin meant you were poor where as a beautiful and wealthy woman would be plump because she could afford fine dining. As society has changed, being slender has become the new trend, creating the idea that in order to be truly beautiful one must be thin. The movie stars in Hollywood, although most people realize the beautifying changes that are made to the pictures, this idea of 'beauty ' and 'desire ' still lingers in the mind of whoever comes across it. Our society is bombarded with several different ideologies of beauty but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The beauty standards that have been set should not be what are shaping people around the world and influencing them to go through with plastic surgery. The use of plastic surgery has changed from a medical procedure used to reconstruct the wounded or people with birth defects to reconstructing something people do not like about themselves. Plastic surgery was used during WWI in 1910 and after the war, skin grafting grew. The first training program in the United States was in 1924 thanks to Dr. John Davis. In 1950-1959, plastic surgery was used broadly to repair cleft pallet. It wasn’t until about

We live in a society where people worship beauty. As far as recorded history people have gone to extremes to seek beauty. From foot binding in China to wearing strangulating corsets in Victorian era. People from different race and culture have experimented in every way possible way to look beautiful prior to this popular age of plastic surgery. It’s very common to hear people complain about their appearance, whether it’s their crocked nose, thin lips or flat chest. Remarkably, plastic surgery has been the solution for people who complain. Most people tend to think of plastic surgery as only cosmetic surgery and not as reconstructive surgeries. Plastic surgeries seems to be an invention of modern technology; however its roots lie in the ancient history of India. An Indian surgeon contributed towards the establishment of plastic surgery, it was intended to correct physical deformities acquired during birth, accident, disease or war. These surgeries did not gain the popularity it has today until the First World War. It was during the late 60’s, when doctors started realizing the endless possibilities of plastic surgeries. With the help of this surgery a trained surgeon can replace an amputate body part, remove skin cancer, get rid of unattractive scars and visible birthmarks or rescaling a nose or enhance body parts. Today more and more people from different age groups opt for plastic surgeries to obtain dramatic physical changes. These surgeries were envisioned to restore

Beauty can be a powerful entity for humans to manipulate and mutilate their outward appearances through cultures for social status and re-identification. Thus, the purpose for aesthetic alteration and modification have become much more common in our current fluctuated society that we live in and Korea is no exception to this. It is undoubtable that the popularity of cosmetic surgery have drastically increased, particularly in South Korea where culture trends rapidly shift, a nation ranked first for their advanced methods of cosmetic surgery all over the world. This ‘Republic of Cosmetic Surgery’ has been titled as the nation providing over 130 types of cosmetic surgery, including from simple treatments such as Botox, fillers and double-eyelid to high-risk procedures of orthognathic surgery and breast augmentations yet, the types of cosmetic surgery sought by women are ‘racially specific’.

To sum up, plastic surgery is aimed to make humanity look better. Thousands of people have these operations performed each year. However,