Does weight loss cause facial aging?

If you are a woman over 40 you must have heard the oft quoted saying that you have to choose between your figure or your face.

Conventional wisdom has it that you can’t have a younger looking figure and a youthful face.

Recently the cosmetic surgery industry has picked up on some research that appears to back up the popular advice. Read more

Why smoking and cosmetic surgery don’t mix

If you are thinking about any kind of cosmetic surgery – and you’re a smoker – you may want to pause right there.

Whatever your reasons for wanting surgery – continuing to smoke will make you a less acceptable candidate in the eyes of most good plastic surgeons.

Any doctor worth their fees knows that smoking increases the risks from surgery and delays recovery and healing time. Not something you or your doctor want.
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Are you too old for cosmetic surgery?

Asking your doctor whether you’re too old for plastic surgery sounds like a silly question in some ways.

After all – it’s probably your age – or the changes your face goes through as you age – that’s got you thinking about cosmetic surgery in the first place.

Putting aside why you want cosmetic surgery – age could be a factor in whether your surgeon thinks you are a suitable candidate. Your age may greatly up the risk and make the outcome less successful.
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Be honest about your reasons for cosmetic surgery

If you are considering cosmetic surgery one of the most important questions to ask yourself is: why?

A lot of women thinking about cosmetic surgery have a natural desire to look younger or better than they do currently. The same desire that motivates us to buy an anti aging cream or cover up our gray hair can lead us to wonder about a face lift.

But taking a decision to have elective cosmetic surgery – to cut into your healthy facial tissue – is not as simple as deciding which anti aging face cream to buy. Read more

Finding a board certified plastic surgeon

Having your cosmetic surgery or anti aging treatment carried out by a “board certified plastic surgeon” is a piece of advice you’ll see a lot on this site.

It seems to be a sentence I’m adding to most of my articles about facial cosmetic surgery or radical anti aging procedures.

The reasons are simple – it’s the advice given by anyone in the know about cosmetic surgery.  Go to any reputable site and you’ll see the same thing – but why does it matter and what are “board certified plastic surgeons”?
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Lifestyle Lift: don’t get scammed

The Lifestyle face lift has been extensively hyped as a low downtime mini face lift delivering a lifted, tightened face and neck without the pain of a full face lift.

Launched in 2001 and heavily sold on just about every network news and shopping chanel throughout the US – Lifestyle face lift was marketed as “a minor one hour procedure with major results”.

My mother always told me – if it sounds too good to be true it usually is – and on this occasion seems she was right. Read more

No more plastic surgery

The argument for and against plastic surgery is hotting up as two Hollywood celebrities speak out against plastic surgery as a means of looking younger.

According to Jane Fonda she and Sally Field have made a “pact” not to go for any more plastic surgery in the quest to look younger.
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