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A Large Number Of Women Are Opting For Cosmetic Surgery Because They Want To Look Like Their Favourite Celebrities, But What Actually Is Involved And Is It Really Worth The Risks?

3rd April, 2011 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Vanity can have an influence on most women at some stage of their life and many women throughout virtually their complete life. The fashion and beauty industries invest vast amounts of money on advertising every year just trying to make people believe that their clothing range or cosmetic products will ensure they look perfect, and then make billions of pounds of profit because so many people buy into that dream.

As is very obvious, the world of fashion mostly suggests that all women should be size zero and creates its outfits accordingly. As a consequence, many women who try to keep up to date with current styles end up looking far worse than they would do if they followed their own ideas as to what looks great on them and what doesn’t.

Never being able to look great in the latest catwalk designs very often leads to women attempting to follow yet another diet. There are ridiculous statistics about the vast amount of women who are permanently ‘on a diet’. Obviously, it makes great sense to eat a healthy and balanced variety of foods, but constantly attempting to starve yourself by following one fad diet or another doesn’t generally accomplish much in reality.

A lot of women also seem to believe that there is something wrong with having light coloured skin, as the passion for sunbed worshipping or fake tans shows, and this is surely prompted by the looks of those female celebrities who countless women treat as the look to aspire to. I can understand people wanting to dye their hair exotic colours, whether it be to cover up a few grey strands, because they don’t like their natural colour or just because they fancy a bit of a change. Changing your hair colour is the same kind of thing as applying polish to fingernails as far as I’m concerned. But I don’t pretend to understand the desire to alter skin colour, unless it happens naturally (and sensibly!) from whilst doing things in the open air in nice weather.

The desire to look perfect can often become enough of an obsession that surgery to correct parts of the body becomes the next option to investigate. This sort of surgery is generally done privately in the UK and can be expensive. The kinds of treatment available include procedures such as getting rid of excess fat, remodelling a crooked nose, botox to lessen the amount of wrinkles, Laser eye surgery to improve vision so that glasses aren’t necessary, breast enlargement or reduction, chemical peels to make skin look healthier and many and various other treatments.

Obviously, there are some cases where a range of these operations are carried out for the sake of the individual’s health. A crooked nose could cause breathing problems, a sight defect may be cured by Laser eye treatment in particular if the patient has an employment opportunity which makes using glasses or contact lenses difficult or risky, a breast reduction may be considered for a patient with back problems.

Of course some of the above mentioned procedures, such as Laser eye surgery, are used regularly to treat real health defects as well as pandering to an individual’s vanity, but this cannot be said for many of them. In truth many operations processes which are now considered mostly cosmetic were originally developed to treat health problems and have since been taken up as some of the quickest and easiest, albeit expensive, ways to embellish your looks.

The difficulty is though, as people get older it becomes more and more obvious if cosmetic surgery has been carried out. Think of the many older film stars you see and totally assume that they must have had a little nip and tuck in order to still be able to look that good. It seems a bit unfair on those who are fortunate enough to still look great without surgical intervention that a lot of people will inevitably presume that they have had surgery, simply because a lot of people do!

There seems little likelihood that such an obsession with looking perfect will diminish in the coming years, as increasingly unrealistic role models appear for women to attempt to emulate. But it is important to bear in mind how much time and money it would take to have all of the numerous surgical enhancements, Laser eye treatment, chemical skin peel, extensive dentistry work and more. On the other hand, you could just start to love yourself as you are.