cosmetic surgery
When Cosmetic Surgery Addiction Goes Bad…
11:21AM Jess McGuire | You know, I’m sure there’s a point for every addict where you catch yourself doing something so strange and bizarre that you suddenly realise “I’ve probably hit rock bottom” and seek help.
Helpful hint for plastic surgery addicts then – if you’re about to inject cooking oil into your face, IT IS TIME TO STEP AWAY FROM THE MIRROR AND TALK TO A PROFESSIONAL.
A woman addicted to cosmetic surgery is unrecognisable after injecting cooking oil into her face. The Daily Telegraph in London reports Korean woman Hang Mioku, 48, had her first cosmetic surgery procedure at 28 and was hooked, moving to Japan for more.
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Top Model “Tragedy”; Won’t Someone Please Think Of The Children?!
10:51AM Clem Bastow | This year’s cycle of Australia’s Next Top Model is proving to be worth its weight in gold when it comes to the sort of scandals that the tabloid press eat right up, and today’s kerfuffle is the pick of the bunch.
News.com.au are tagging this lead/spoiler story about tonight’s episode, focusing on pouty Alexandra, as a “Surgery ‘Tragedy’”. Now, what does that make you think of – a girl putting her hand through the window and slicing her tendons? Maybe one of the contestants having to be carted off for emergency hospital care, like Eboni with her pinched nerve? Maybe one of them, OMG, DIES?
Well, if you picked any of them, you’d be wrong. It seems Alexandra’s “tragedy” was to have two collagen injections in her famously “tense” mouth. TRAGEDY!!
Professional photographer Juli Balla, who appears in the episode, was shocked someone so young and beautiful felt the pressure to resort to cosmetic surgery at such a young age.
“It’s a tragedy what she has done,” Balla said. “Obviously Alex is not confident in who she is, which is not a good sign at the start of your modelling career.”
Evidently Priscilla Leighton Clarke was also unimpressed, which is a big umm-ahhh for Alex considering no matter who ends up in the final two, Priscilla’s the one whose agency has to be prepared to represent for them.
I do feel sorry for Alex; she’s certainly been the victim of the editing suite from episode one onwards, and I’m starting to think – along with much of the Vogue Forums – that she’s actually quite smart and nice, and just doesn’t want to play dumbarse like half the rest of the contestants.
But – unless something is revealed in Ep 6 (which I’ve not yet viewed) – why do they always see cosmetic surgery as being some sort of indicator of low self-esteem or self confidence in these instances? Yes, they can lead to excessive cosmetic tinkering, but did they consider the fact that maybe she just wanted to get collagen? You know, because she’s an adult and can do what she wants with her life and body? More » 
What’s That, Daily Mail? Nicole Looks Like A What?
3:41PM Clem Bastow | Now, as much as we love Our Nicole Kidman, we’re the first to agree she could probably lay off the facials and Botox injections. The whole stunned look is possibly not working as well for her today as it did when she was in The Interpreter and required to look permanently shocked/concerned.
However, we’re not sure about The Daily Mail’s choice of analogy when it comes to discussing Nic’s visage:
Right, so cosmetic surgery expert Dr Martin Braun says, “She looks like a bat with too much of an (outer) brow lift. The middle of the brow’s been dropped. She’s crying when she accepts her Oscar, but nothing is moving.”
Fair enough. But, what’s that? You didn’t quite catch what they were trying to say about her face? Oh, cool – here you go again:
Huh? You still don’t know what she looks like? Here, how about an enlarged version of the two images above, at 1000 x 895! Something for the desktop, perhaps?
Really, we think once probably would’ve been enough. We half expect to log on to the Mail on Monday and find the background is nothing but tiled images of Nicole and her bat friend. More » 
