Breast augmentation is down by a quarter while breast reduction is up, and for the first time in years, cosmetic surgery is on the decline Last year, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (BAAPS) reported that cosmetic procedures were up by 16.5 per cent - numbers of nose jobs, liposuction, tummy tucks and face lifts had reached an eye-watering 50,122 in the UK. This year however, the stats are a little more subtle, and they've also been deflated. According to BAAPS, the number of cosmetic operations has decreased by nine per cent in the last 12 months, with breast augmentations for example, still the most popular procedure (there were 8,609 last year), plummeting by 25 per cent. Tummy tucks and nose jobs also decreased by 20 per cent reports, the BAAPS. IN PICTURES - Celebrities with 'new' faces Interestingly too, for the first time in five years, the order of popularity of procedures has shifted. While conspicuous cosmetic work is down, what BAAPS describes as, "tweaked, not tucked" procedures - the more subtle work if you will - including eyelid surgery, face lifts and fat transfer ops whose numbers all went unchanged, while breast reductions were up by three … Continue reading →

Modal Trigger View Thumbnails Miss Bum Bum Brazil runner-up Andressa Urach is the poster child for plastic surgery in Brazil for good and for bad. Splash News Pandas play in the snow, President Barack Obama visits Saudi Arabia, the Northeast braves a blizzard and more. Snowmageddon 2015 turned out to be a dud, but Monday nights travel ban turned New York City into a ghost town. The Northeast braces for a blizzard, President Barack Obama visits India, sloths get special TLC and more. Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Lupita Nyong'o and more of Hollywood's hottest stars rock the red carpet at the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Freaky fashions take over Paris, asoldier has a happy homecoming, a polar bear plays goalie and more. Miss USA represents, President Barack Obama visits the heartland, deep sea divers get a rude awakening from a sperm whale, a baby tiger makes her adorable debut and more. Pro-lifers stage a die-in in Washington, First Lady Michelle Obama reads to tiny doctors, Pope Francis mugs for the cameras and more. Localsin Bogatye Saby, Tatarstan, Russia, recreate military gear,movie greats and more out of snow. Read the original here: Brazilian beauty is poster child for dangerous plastic … Continue reading →

SAO PAULO - Andressa Urach went from being a single teenage mom nicknamed "Beanpole" to a reality TV bombshell in Brazil thanks to silicone implants, anabolic steroids, a nose job, and gel and botox injections, a fact she wasn't ashamed to share with fans. "There are plenty of ugly women," she said last year. "If you have the money, you can be beautiful. This pretty face you see here, my dear, it costs some." More, it turns out, than she bargained for. The 27-year-old Urach, arguably Brazil's most outspoken advocate of advancement through cosmetic surgery, recently went into septic shock and was placed on life support after a botched operation to augment her thighs, sparking a debate about the risks Brazilian women will take for beauty at a moment when the nation has surpassed the U.S. as the world's plastic surgery capital. It led the runner-up in Brazil's "Miss Bum Bum" contest to express regret "that I put that poison in my body, mostly because of having too much vanity." Urach appeared on television this week for the first time since falling ill two months ago, her wounds still so fresh that blood could be seen soaking through her skirt. … Continue reading →