Cosmetic Surgery

In the “Creeped out by clowns? This might be why,” article, by Frank T. Mcandrew the article looks deeper into as to why the clown sightings have frightened so many people, versus why they are occurring. According to his research clowns are the perfect mix to be terribly frightening (Mcandrew). With a clown being covered in makeup and an unfitting costume, humans are unable to pick up social cues from the clown.The ambiguity of the clown is what creates the fear factor among citizens.

Furthermore, cosmetic surgery promotes an unhealthy body image. Often the media omits the negative aspects of cosmetic surgery and only shows the best results and reviews. Consequently, deceiving the viewers into believing that cosmetic surgery has no unsatisfactory results. Plastic surgeon Leo denotes, “Many times, patients come to me quoting glowing reviews they have read on blogs, not realizing that these posts may be sponsored and may not highlight all the risks involved in a medical surgery.” (Straits Times). Teens especially if they have low self-esteem can easily be influenced by these deceptive advertisements. These false advertisements create false perceptions, especially if

Studio6 has a goal, when we change our patient bodies, is to enable them to use their personal power more effectively and to have the external

This new trend of cosmetic surgery is also a factor in presenting an unrealistic body image to the public. Predominantly used by celebrities and those of wealth, now cosmetic surgery is progressively being used by the average middle class person. Men are just as affected by the

In today’s society, cosmetic surgeries are more accepted. Many women who are unhappy with their bodies and/or faces undergo these type of surgeries. I think this happens because nowadays people are more focused on the look than they were in the past. Also, after many years of women having no voice, today women are able to do anything they want with their bodies, and people are more open minded. Moreover, science, medicine, and technology have evolved, creating every day a new procedure in

107) Second, magazines geared toward women often run stories focusing on the ordinary woman’s experiences with surgery of the benefits of surgically improving one’s appearance. Also, advertisements typically promote the benefits of cosmetic surgery using gendered stereotypes, with men represented as concerned with virility and professional competitiveness whereas women are investing in aesthetic improvements. Therefore, the idea of personal transformations and self-improvement is not particularly novel but standard approach that has become entrenched in mass media representations of cosmetic surgery (Adams, 2009, p. 108). However, the potential health risks are downplayed and negative outcomes are attributed to the unpredictability of the aesthetic results or poor surgeon selection. More importantly, these frames tend to diverge from the actual surgical experience, which rather being neat and instantaneous, is often complex and painful. Nevertheless, it is the media-mediated frame that dominates the broader social discussion of cosmetic surgery and often reduces it to a consumable lifestyle option as opposed to a complicated medical procedure fraught with potential risks and uncertainties.

Marketing campaigns have been structured to encourage cosmetic surgeries in ways that attempt to generate demands. For example since 1983 in the USA, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) has attempted to expand its services of cosmetic surgery through a marketing campaign of press release that showed pre and post operative pictures as well as educational brochures (Gillespie 1997, p.76). In addition to that since costumers don't decide to undergo surgical procedure over night, providers need to keep a high profile by increasing advertisements and awareness through women magazines, local news papers and other types of communication (Gillespie 1997, p.76). Cosmetic surgery, which aims to improve individual’s body physique, encourages women to see imperfections as illness (Gillespie 1997, p.74). This form of ideals, that embraces only certain types of female bodies as normal and feminine in accordance to size, weight, shape and often color of the body, ignores natural diversity of women. The normalization of cosmetic surgery not only supports the capitalist system and enforces gender norms into society but also transforms normal body parts and the changes the natural process of aging into abnormal. For example nowadays it is very common to hear someone saying that an individual is ugly or fat and therefore needs to undergo plastic surgery; or questions why someone who is so wealthy would not pay for cosmetic surgery to fix certain parts of their body, which are considerate to be unattractive or abnormal according to the cultural norms. Consequently, the more people select to have cosmetic surgery procedures to create a beautiful face and body, the more ordinary looking individuals will become to be perceived and evaluated as ugly (Morgan 1991,

The ASPS (American Society of Plastic Surgeons) describes aesthetic plastic surgery as “a procedure used to reshape normal structures of the body in order to improve the patient's appearance and self-esteem”. Recently “over 10 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed by board certified doctors in the United States” (“Cosmetic Procedure Increase”). While both men and women use plastic surgery, it is more common in women. Out of the 10 million cosmetic surgeries, 90% of the surgeries are on women. In fact, “the most frequently performed surgical procedure was breast augmentation” (“Cosmetic Procedure Increase”), which is about 20% of the 1.7 million procedures done in 2012. This statistic is not surprising especially since women have more pressure than men to have a presentable outer appearance. Its hard not to want certain bodily features when society claims these features are what makes one attractive.

The article “Most People Do Not Have Cosmetic Surgery for Vanity”, by Loren Eskenazi opens up with how the author expresses her views about women and their personal choice of having cosmetic surgery. Eskenazi’s article argues that most women do not choose to have surgery for uncertain reasons, in fact, she states they are in search for something more profound. In the article, she deliberates the future of cosmetic surgery and reasons why more and more women have decided to have the procedure done. Eskenazi have performed roughly ten thousand surgeries and undergone three procedures herself. Eskenazi’s article present valid, cited facts to support her argument.

Plastic Surgery has become a worldwide epidemic in today’s world. The number of plastic surgeries continues to increase since 2010. In today’s day and age, plastic surgery is one of the most popular and requested procedures. Females are opting to have plastic surgery because they dislike their body image. Society has impacted many people by brain washing them to believe that a person’s body has to be perfect. In order for one to be considered beautiful, television and media influence people’s perceptions of beauty.

One of the most common decision people make because of body image is plastic surgery. Many people turn to surgeons to create certain features of a celebrity they believe has attractive features. In “The most popular plastic surgery procedure is…” written by Jacqueline Howard talks about how throughout the years the amount of cosmetic procedure being performed have gone up and how ever since 2015 the demand for fillers has increased which is a procedure that is used to make the lips bigger. According to the article the reason for the popularity of this procedure is because of Kylie Jenner, the reality star who admitted to using temporary fillers to plump her lips in an episode of “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” (Howard) This goes to show how people are not afraid of getting cosmetic procedure, that consumer will continue to pay in order to look what they believe is their best. It shows how celebrities are a bad influence on people because instead of encouraging positive body image they are promoting getting these services.

The public is becoming more accustomed to the idea of plastic surgery; and number of patients seeking plastic surgery has increased in the past decade. Each year the American society is stimulated with thousands of prototype images. This reality affects countless people with low self-steam and fills the brain of men and women with lack of confidence about their body images. Plastic surgery seems to be a comfortable resolution to this issue, but actually it’s just the beginning of a more complex matter related to body images. The public is becoming more and more accustomed to the idea of plastic surgery.

There are many reasons why someone may want to change his or her physical appearance, and many of these reasons are out of people 's control. Cosmetic practices and plastic surgery have become more pervasive in modern day society. Plastic surgery is defined as any cosmetic procedure that allows one to reconstruct his or her physical appearance. Although plastic surgery has some benefits, such as the ability to reconstruct genetic deformities that one has no control over, many of the people who undergo plastic surgery do it for non-essential reasons. Plastic surgery can authentic an individual 's goals for beauty if it is necessary, and as long as the individual has higher self-confidence and a higher sense of self. Though this is typically not the case, many of these reasons range from different media and cultural along with societal influences, to an insufficient sense of self, and paired with certain psychological disorders. They opt in favor of cosmetic procedures for a variety of different reasons, characteristically not the right ones, which leaves room for different risks and drawbacks.

Most of us don't like some aspect of our appearance, whether it's sagging eyes or excess weight in particular areas, to name a few complaints. Lately a record numbers of Americans are doing something about it by having plastic surgery. Since 1995, the number of cosmetic procedures, which range from liposuction to facelifts, has almost tripled (English 23). Is that a healthy choice-or a dangerous trend? Aging has become the field of the future for plastic surgeons whose patients have reasons not always valid in the search for youth and beauty.

The following text deals with the plastic surgery. Whether plastic surgery always works is questionable. When people hear about plastic surgery, most of them tend to connect it with Hollywood. At the present time it is no longer surprising that people operate their body parts, even at the age of 18. But why not think about reconstructive surgery. There are thousands of cases of skin cancer, sears or deformity of body parts. The following paragraphs also report issues such as,