Plastic Surgery

when reading this it occurred to me that if you obsess about it so much then maybe you have a deeper problem?

it was just a thought, not meaning to be rude or anything

I want to get my breasts done, not sure I'm brave enough to get the operation now that I've gotten parents authorisation though

I have BDD. But plastic surgery usually helps it. If it doesnt then im a bit screwed but we will see. Im all for plastic surgery, do it if you want it. I do not know why anybody would say 'dont do it' when its going to make someones life better and make somebody a happier person

I understand what you mean. When the plastic surgeon lady told me about the procedure on my nose I thought I was going to faint or throw up! Its scary but nothing will stop me getting it done

wats that?

yep, I've been wanting to get them reduced for ages aand I've done all the research, talked to 3 doctors, finally managed to convince my parents and now that it's actually a possibility I'm really scared
same with the laser (getting rid of freckles...)

I have a bit of a moral stance against it... It's a personal thing, I'm not judging anyone who has it done, but I think that it sucks that more and more people are getting it done when there's little wrong with them to begin with. It's like there's a standard of beauty that we feel we have to conform to to be beautiful- If you're a woman the archetype of beauty is often to be tallish, blonde, long hair, big eyes, large chest, flat stomach, slim, cute nose, pouty lips, perfect skin, no wrinkles.. and so on, so on, and so on.. and very few women in reality tick all of those boxes. When I'm out I see loads of girls who have obviously dieted copiously, bleached their hair and applied make-up for all they're worth to try and conform to this standard. As cosmetic surgery is becoming more and more common-place in society this is beginning to be taken to a new level.. if the girl next door has had implants and a nose job and liposuction it just makes you feel even worse because she has more of the boxes ticked, and she's not some celebrity that you can say, "ahh well, she has loads of money, it's okay if I don't look like that".

I guess my point is that I wish that we could all feel more beautiful as we are without worrying that we need bigger breasts and straighter noses and the like... I know I'm far from physically perfect, and I do wish that I could get rid of the bump on my nose and be half a stone lighter and a million other things, but as I get older I've realised that I am how I am, and it's not so bad.. I quite like the way I am and there's no way I'm going to fork out now to get a nose job, because I just know that once I'm happy with my nose, I'm going to hate something else, and it's just easier to accept myself once and for all.

In cases where accidents have happened and things like that (like the original poster), I don't have any issue.. I just think it's really unfortunate that we have to reach towards an ideal that's simply not achievable by natural means.

My personal opinion is don't **** with what you were given. it'll only drop, sag, or come back on you in an evil way later in life. No problem with other people doing it, it's just not for me. There's too much pressure especially on women for them to look 20 when theyre 50! Grow old gracefully for Gods sake!

On the other hand some people do need plastic surgery for medical reasons in which case that's acceptable

Perhaps the nose wasn't so much given, but more taken away from her

Most people oppose it thinking that everybody has the eventual goal of looking like micheal Jackson. Atleast, that's the opinion I got when we had this debate in Biology.

My personal opinion is don't **** with what you were given. it'll only drop, sag, or come back on you in an evil way later in life. No problem with other people doing it, it's just not for me. There's too much pressure especially on women for them to look 20 when theyre 50! Grow old gracefully for Gods sake!

Im getting my nose done because it was broken quite badly a long time ago. Im 18