Plastic surgeons around the world are being given the chance to show off their talents, in a new artificial beauty pageant in China. A contest will be held in October among women who have undergone cosmetic surgery, according to state media. Posted on 08/04/2004 4:33:31 PM PDT by traumer
Plastic surgeons around the world are being given the chance to show off their talents, in a new artificial beauty pageant in China. A contest will be held in October among women who have undergone cosmetic surgery, according to state media.
It will be open to any woman who can prove her beauty is man-made.
Plastic surgery is on the increase in China, China Daily newspaper said, with around 20bn yuan ($2.4bn) spent yearly on beauty treatments.
The idea for "Miss Plastic Surgery" was reportedly born after a woman was barred from a traditional beauty contest after spending $13,000 on 11 cosmetic operations.
The paper said China now had a million beauty salons, employing six million people.
Their clients range from body-conscious teenage girls to women in their 30s seeking facial jobs and breast implants, it added.
The rise of the salons is based on the assumption that beauty is a route to success, China Daily said, citing findings by US economists which indicated that good looks increased overall hourly income by 5%.
China recently lifted a 54-year ban on beauty pageants, which the authorities used to see as bourgeois and decadent.
But the explosion of economic growth and the loosening of social controls of the past few years has led to a growing preoccupation with how people look.
The Miss World contest was held in China for the first time in 2003.
Watch out plastic surgeons ! You may be next on the OUTSOURCE list....
I would say this proves beyond a doubt that China has is fully 'connected' to the rest of the comercialized world now.
Looks pretty real to me ;)
Pamela elbows her way to the front of the line.
$30k in debt w/ the medical records and bills to prove it?
Any other word might've caused undue titillation.
Nancy Pelosi
She looks like she's in a wind tunnel.
she looks likw she is getting a proctological exam with a 20,000 volt cattle prod.
She should be careful. If she tries to stretch that mouth too far, her face will pop off and fly around the room like a deflated balloon.
With all due respect, I think you're confusing fake beauty with genuine ugly.
Oh noooooo, you mean that's not really her? I want some of those. LOL!
What the hell, their government's built on putty.
Good! We'll get them when nose rings, punk bands, rap bands and tattoos become popular:)
LOL I'm surprised she's not called "Miss Free Trade" or "Miss Capitalism."
yeah but you may end up looking like an chinese...
not that there is anything wrong with it ...
Actually it's not a genuine (natural) ugly.
It's a result of cosmetic surgery(ies)....
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