If the hoopla surrounding the $40,000 stem cell facelift on offer to one of the winners or presenters at this year’s Golden Globes is anything to go by, the role of cosmetic surgery and injectables is still, despite being fairly ubiquitous in celebrity circles, hotly debated. Factor in ethics and potential results – or disasters – and you have many, many column inches devoted to what A-Listers have or haven’t had done.
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Emulating the results isn’t as simple as having a bit of botox, it seems. In fact, Signature Clinic, the UK’s largest cosmetic surgery provider, have released stats that suggest the exponential rise in the appetite for a panoply of surgical and non-surgical enhancements isn’t going to wane anytime soon. This didn’t surprise me; it’s now commonplace to discuss an injector or surgeon recommendation in casual terms alongside a brilliant facialist or hairdresser find. I was surprised, however, by the breadth of the nature of procedures happening...
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First up: blepharoplasty, an eyelid surgery that removes excess skin from the eyelids and can be a godsend if your vision is obstructed by said skin. Equally, it’s also considered a procedure that helps to make eyes appear more youthful, reducing eyebrow and upper eyelid sags, as well as potentially vanishing bags under eyes.
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Next, gynecomastia surgery, during which those assigned male at birth have excess breast tissue removed, which can be present either as a result of a hormonal imbalance or certain medications. It accounted for 19% of treatments last year, with face and neck lifts hot on its heels. Other popular treatments with men include genital surgery and brachioplasty, which is effectively an arm lift, reshaping the area around the arm.
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