Fourteen-year-old Nadia Ilse got plastic surgery on her ears, nose and chin so kids would stop bullying her. she told Good Morning America:
I felt horrible. I felt like I was like dirt. They said that I have the biggest ears that they’ve ever seen. They called me ‘Dumbo,’ ‘elephant ears.’
Over time the bullying escalated. School became a nightmare, and she got so she couldn’t bear to look at herself in a mirror as she began to believe the slurs.
All this raises questions.
Like how the world seems to think that beauty – a plastic, superficial part of us — means something real. like how moving a few millimeters of skin, bone and cartilage here and there makes all the difference. a few tweaks and kids go from bullying to accepting. And Nadia goes from crying herself to sleep and having suicidal thoughts to just going about her day.
Why do so many of us see the world in such superficialities?
I would like to ask the bullies if they would judge a person unworthy on such flimsy grounds if they were the ones whose ears were a bit large.
What if there is a God who purposefully creates people who go against beauty norms? What are we supposed to get out of that? are we to develop empathy and compassion? are we supposed to move away from the surface and superficial to see what really matters? Should we learn about what is real and what is ridiculous?
And should we really care what ridiculous people think?
your eyes are the windows to, well, your age.In fact, studies have shown that when strangers are asked to judge how old a person is, the eye area is one of the biggest influences.It’s no surprise that eyelid surgery to “freshen” the appearance of the skin around the eyes is routinely one of the most-performed plastic surgery procedures in the United States.For the best beauty products and ideas for eyes that look brighter and more youthful (and like you’ve actually gotten some sleep!), follow these makeup tips, eye cream suggestions and at-home beauty remedies.Caffeine for your eyesTea bags are a great at-home natural beauty trick to perk up tired-looking, puffy eyes.”The caffeine helps shrink the underlying dark blood vessels and forces out some of the liquid that creates puffiness,” explains Dr. Ava Shamban, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at UCLA.Soak tea bags in hot water for a minute before plunging them into ice water for a few seconds.Lie down and apply them directly to your eyes for 15 minutes.Camouflage crow’s feetNix heavy cover-up, which makes lines more obvious, says Matin Maulawizada of Laura Mercier Cosmetics.Instead, brighten the area with concealer under the outer third of your lower lashes and a creamy highlighter just below any lines.get ‘wow’ lashesBefore applying mascara, when eyelashes are clean and dry (wet ones post-shower won’t hold a curl), position an eyelash curler at the root of the lashes and give three firm, gentle pumps.Release and repeat — holding it steady doesn’t create a natural-looking, fluid curl.For even better curl, heat your curler with your blow-dryer for 15 seconds first.”The warmth holds the bend better,” says makeup artist Mally Roncal.
For most of us, eye bags are one of the most horrible features in our face. There are even instances wherein it is so black and prominent that often times, it is what people notice first when they are talking to you.
Eye bags are not always caused by lack of sleep. Contrary to what most people believe, there are still many factors as to what causes this annoying facial feature.
Other causes of eye bags include age, genes, diet or allergies. in most cases, eye bags are not life threatening and does not require medical attention. either way, you wouldn’t want to suffer the strange feeling cause by these enormous bulges under your eyes, do you?
Placing additional pillows underneath your head at bedtime helps prevent the occurrence of bags under your eye. Sleeping flat on your back causes fluid to accumulate under the eye. Lifting your head even just a little bit encourages drainage in the eye area.
Avoid Salty Foods
Cutting salt from your diet tremendously decreases swelling underneath the eye area. Reduce your sodium intake to 2,300 mg a day or less to prevent eye bags. Additionally, eat less canned soups; avoid fast foods and sugary snacks. As much as possible, try to eat healthy and balanced diet. Include foods that are rich in Vitamin K in your diet. These include herbs, dark leafy greens, scallions, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, chili powder, curry, paprika, cayenne, asparagus, cabbage, pickled cucumber and prunes.
Beware of Allergens
Allergens like dairy, pets and molds causes swelling and redness underneath the eyes. if it is unavoidable, take anti histamine to prevent your eyes from contacting these allergens.
Reduce Alcohol Intake
Or better yet, stop drinking alcohol altogether. Alcohol drinking causes water retention throughout the body and it makes you bloat. The easiest way to avoid this is cutting down on alcohol.
Get enough Sleep
Sleeping at least 8 hours a day prevents eye bags from occurring in your face. This avoids stress and over fatigue. and while you’re at it, try to use the best eye cream. There are many various eye cream variants available in makeup stores and online so choose the best ones for your skin type.
As we grow older, eye bags become more visible and the more stressed you are, the bigger it gets and the harder for it to rid. so why wait for the signs to show up when as early as today, you can prevent it from showing in your face.
LONDON (AP) – on the first day of the rest of his life, Michael Phelps found old habits are hard to break.
He popped out of bed around 6 in the morning Sunday, as if it were another normal training session.
“I wish I could sleep a little longer,” Phelps said. “I've been used to getting up early the last 20 years. We're going to work on getting on a little different schedule.”
Phelps can start sleeping later now. Heck, he can do whatever he wants. at 27, he ended his swimming career in London as the most decorated Olympian ever with 18 golds – twice as many as anyone else – and 22 medals overall. The only thing left to do is sign the retirement papers, which will remove him from the list of athletes who must undergo regular doping tests.
“I have not officially retired yet,” Phelps told The Associated Press, “but very soon I will be signing those papers and it will be official.”
Phelps isn't sure what he'll do next. there will definitely be plenty of traveling. Only this time he'll see more than just the bottom of pools and the inside of hotel rooms. he wants to work on his golf game – “the proper way, not just going out there taking a couple of hacks at a little white ball.” he might even take a trip to the beach, which was something he never wanted to do when he was swimming competitively.
“If I go swimming any place, it will probably be in the ocean,” Phelps said. “I will actually enjoy getting in the water at the beach. I've been on a couple of vacations before, but I never wanted to get around water because I spent so much time in the water. hopefully, I can jump in now and actually enjoy it, just splashing around with my friends.”
For the most part, though, his retirement plans are a work in progress.
He's been so focused on his swimming, on making a splash at his final Olympics, that he clearly hasn't taken much time to figure out what he wants to do next. he just knows he doesn't want to swim, not competitively anyway.
“I don't even know where to begin,” Phelps said. “I'm just going to take it one step at a time, one day at a time. If I want to do something, I'm just going to do it.”
He was asked about a do-over as host of “Saturday Night Live.” back in 2008, shortly after breaking Mark Spitz's Olympic record by winning eight gold medals, Phelps made a rather stilted appearance on the late-night comedy show.
“Hopefully, I wouldn't be as nervous as I was last time. I remember walking out on the stage for that very first scene and thinking, 'Wow, if I mess up, everybody's going to see it,'” he said. “If they call and ask, I will definitely say yes. I would love to do it again.”
For now, he's mainly focused on getting some down time. He's been swimming competitively for about two decades, and he's been at the top of the sport for nearly a dozen years. there are so many things he passed up so he could focus on swimming, and though there are no regrets, there's a lot of catching up to do.
“The biggest thing I really want to do is travel and see a bunch of the world,” he said.
This, from a guy who's obviously done plenty of traveling, from Sydney to Athens, from Beijing to London. But this will be different. he wants to experience what other tourists get to experience.
He got a sampling of it Sunday, hitting the town with his mom, two older sisters and a niece.
“It's fun to see parts of this city,” Phelps said. “Coming over the bridge this morning, seeing Parliament and big Ben. I had not seen that this whole trip. It's cool being able to go around and see more of it. hopefully, in the next couple of days, I'll be able to enjoy it a little bit more. I'll have more time to go out and see London like you're supposed to.”
He paused and quickly added a telling comment on the single-mindedness that carried him to such glory in the pool but deprived him of so many other things.
“I don't know how you're supposed to” see London, Phelps said. “I have a friend who lives over here. I'll ask him what to do, what to see.”
Phelps had barely climbed out of the pool for the final time when speculation started about whether he would come back. He's at an age where he could easily swim in another Olympics, maybe two. his coach, Bob Bowman, said Phelps would likely have to drop some of his longer events but could still be one of the world's best in several races if he wanted to keep going.
Dara Torres, who won three silver medals at age 41 and just missed making her sixth Olympic team this year, tweeted that she's betting on a Phelps comeback.
“Anyone care to wager???” she wrote.
Phelps playfully tweeted back: “Yes I would love 2!!!”
“The competitive part of my career is over, but that doesn't mean I'm done with the sport,” he said. “This sport has allowed me so many opportunities. I've had the privilege to do some of the coolest things in the world. I'm still going with my goal, to try to change the sport, to take it to a whole new level. It hasn't reached the peak that I want it to reach.”
He plans to attend the world championships in Barcelona next year, and he's already promised his mom that he'll take her to the Rio Games in 2016. But before anyone gets the wrong idea, he quickly adds, “I'm not competing. I'm not competing. I'm not competing.
“I want to see what it's like being on the outside looking in,” Phelps said. “It will be cool to see how people progress.”
He's not at all worried about the U.S. program carrying on without him. Indeed, this was more of a team effort than the past two Olympics, which were dominated by Phelps' Herculean performances. he still won more medals than any other swimmer, but four golds and two silvers was a step down from Beijing. Even so, the Americans won 16 golds – their highest total in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1972.
Seventeen-year-old Missy Franklin captured four golds, equaling the U.S. mark for a female swimmer set by Amy Van Dyken in 1996. Allison Schmitt won three golds, plus a silver and a bronze. Fifteen-year-old Katie Ledecky nearly broke the world record in the 800 freestyle. and Ryan Lochte, who was a bit of a disappointment despite winning five medals, plans to keep on swimming.
“We have a great team right now,” Phelps said.
One thing he doesn't want to do: Regain those 25 pounds he put on in 2009, when his enthusiasm for the sport waned and he wasn't even sure if he wanted to come back for another Olympics.
“I'm a person that's very goal-oriented,” he said. “I'm sure I can find things to get excited and motivated for.”
In keeping with the theme of a retrospective farewell, Phelps went with some slightly older hip-hop on his iPod during his eight days at the pool, songs he had used to fire himself up for previous meets and past Olympics.
When he walked on the deck for the final time Saturday night to take part in the 4×100-meter medley relay, he was jammin' to Young Jeezy's 2007 hit, “Go Getta,” and a 2011 collaboration between Afrojack and Steve Aoki, “No Beef.”
“I had those two songs kind of going back and forth,” Phelps said. “Most of the meet, we threw in a couple of Lil Wayne songs. I kind of went old school. We didn't do too many new songs on this trip. We just put together everything I listened to over the years.”
Phelps is eager to get home to Baltimore to be with his dogs, Herman and Stella.
Stella is a newcomer to the family, but she seems to be getting adjusted.
“I've been hearing stories and seeing pictures that Stella is more relaxed than before,” Phelps said. “I want to be able to go home and hopefully not see Stella ripping Herman's wrinkles anymore. She kept doing that, and he would get so upset. But they like each other now. I definitely miss those guys. I remember the day I left, they all looked so sad.”
He looked downright giddy about getting on with the rest of his life.
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The video shows a plastic surgeon from Mexico explaining brachioplasty, also known as arms lift surgery, and who should consider getting it.
“Arm lift, most of the times, is for patients who gained some weight and already have lost that weight, could be patients with bariatric surgery or patients who lost some weight and the skin is loose and we have to take that loos skin and reshape, that is an arm lift. of course in that surgery we leave a very big scar as well but reshaping is very nice, so it’s no change of saggy skin for the scar but that is they have to think about it and choose what they want to have.”
Another problem area for patients who lose weight rapidly after bariatric procedures is the thighs. It is not unusual to see strech marks and folds of loose skin in such patients. For this reason, clients also go for thigh lift in Mexico. The reason why Mexico is so popular with medical tourists is its proximity and uncompromising facilities at its hospitals. The hospitals in Mexico are at par with those in the US, if not better. Moreover, Mexico appeals to the wanderlust in people for there are many an intriguing sights to see here.
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Once you have found your physician and you have discussed your medical history and shared your expectations, it is time to discuss the different types of surgery so that you can make the choice that works for you because there are several different ways that the neck lift surgery can be performed.
Sometimes you may have some extra fat on your neck so liposuction will be the preferred method to get rid of it. when that is performed, an incision will be made right below the chin so that this extra fat can be removed. The fat will be broken up and removed from the neck, the incision will be sewn up, and you will have a bandage put on it. you should expect some bruising on your jaw and neck and you may need some extra pillows when you sleep to help reduce the discomfort. your physician will prescribe pain medication and an antibiotic to reduce the chance of infection. Severe pain is not normal, so if you are experiencing it, contact your physician immediately, as it could be a sign of a problem. your activity level will be reduced for a few weeks and you will need to wear a special garment made out of elastic for about two weeks after your surgery.
Another way to have a neck lift performed is through a cervicoplasty. this is where the excess skin on the neck is removed through an incision below the chin through behind the ear and the surgeon will lift the skin, pull it back, and suture it in place to give you a tighter appearance. He will then put a bandage on the suture so that it can heal properly. you will experience bruising around your jaw and neck area and will remain swollen for about 10 days. Otherwise, the recovery will be similar to the recovery to a liposuction neck lift procedure.
A third method of a neck lift is called a platysmaplasty, which is usually done to improve the appearance of bands around the neck. The surgeon will make an incision under the neck and remove and realign some of the neck muscles, causing the appearance of a tighter neck. The sutures will then be bandaged. you should expect some bruising in the jaw and neck area and your physician will prescribe antibiotics to reduce chances of infection. if you have any intense pain, contact your physician, as this is not normal.
The cost of a neck lift varies depending on the extent of the procedure that you have done. you can opt to have more than one procedure done at a time, which also affects the cost. on average a neck lift costs between $5,000.00 and $8,000.00.
Most surgeons do offer some type of payment plan options so if you are concerned that you will not be able to pay for the surgery, it can be made affordable for you so that you can have the more shapely neck that you desire.
Getting bags under eyes and being unable to do anything about it can be extremely frustrating. under eye bags can happen to everyone no matter what age they are. while altering ones lifestyle to a more healthy practice is often the key to healthy skin, some people do not achieve the results they want after making these changes. When an individual gets plenty of sleep, eats healthy and is not exposed to sleep, bags under eyes could still be experienced. In a case such as this, there are a few options that can help the situation. Take a look at Lifecell wrinkle cream for a bit of effective anti aging skincare support.
If under eye bags make the individual too self conscious or are causing too many problems then plastic surgery on the area may be an option. You do not have to resort t surgery immediately because there are other things that can be done. for under eye bags that will not go away, Preparation H cream seems to be effective at reducing their appearance. however, when using this cream one must be extremely careful because it can be dangerous to get the cream in the eyes.
Some items that you have in your house already can be an effective anti-inflammatory eye bags treatment. Most of these items work simply because they are cold and cold things always reduce swelling. Cucumber slices and tea bags are often the main items that are used for this. however, ice cubes wrapped in a towel can also work. Before using tea bags for an eye bags treatment, they should be placed in the freezer for serveral hours. an extra anti-inflammatory property, in addition to the swelling reduction caused by the coldness, is found within green tea bags.
Only a temporary relief can be seen when you use the majority of these eye bags treatments. You will need to set aside time multiple days each week for an eye bags treatment if you want them to stay away for an extended period time. for a truly permanent solution, you will need to find an excellent plastic surgeon who can provide an effective eyelift. Not everyone can get this procedure because it is not cheap. however, another semi-permanent treatment involves wrinkle filling injections.
For those who do not like the surgical methods or cannot afford them, Vitamin K cream can be an effective eye bags treatment. if you purchase one of these types of creams, make sure the one you select includes at least 5% Vitamin K and also features Vitamins C and E as well as retinol. These ingredients can treat a number of skin problems including under eye bags, puffiness and dark circles. a daily moisturizer should also be included in your skin care routine so that your skin can will be protected. Also, perhaps you may or may not know that top selling Lifecell cream also works as an eye treatment. You can also try to cover up your under eye bags with makeup. just remember that using makeup will not fix the problem and care must be taken so that you do not draw more attention to the area instead.
Are you having plastic surgery? if so, then you are probably experiencing a good deal of anxiety. however, there are a few steps that you can take to help you prepare your mind and body for your upcoming procedure. By making sure that your body is in good condition and planning well for your recovery period, you can ensure that your procedure goes off without a hitch.
Get Plenty of Exercise
The first thing that you can do to help you prepare for you plastic surgery is to take steps to get your body in the best condition that you can. Start exercising in the weeks leading up to your procedure in order to increase your body’s ability to handle stress. if your body is in good shape, then you will be more likely to recover quickly without any complications.
Take Steps to Reduce your Stress
In the days leading up to your plastic surgery, you should also try to make sure you are mentally prepared for your operation. Reducing stress will go a long way in helping you to be mentally ready for what is to come. Make sure that you are getting plenty of restful sleep as this will help you to manage stress more effectively. it is also a good idea to do some mental exercise as well. try sitting in a quiet, dark room while doing some deep breathing exercises. This is an extremely effective way of reducing stress and clearing your mind.
Plan for your Recovery
Finally, it is important to plan well for your recovery from plastic surgery. You will want to talk to your doctor about the expected recovery time in order to determine precisely how long you will need. After you have done this, you will need to be sure to clear your schedule in the days after your procedure so that you are not trying to overextend yourself during these pivotal days or weeks. Make sure that you have plenty of time to take off of work, and make sure that your home is well stocked with all of the essentials. This will reduce the likelihood of your having to leave the house while you are recovering.
Plastic surgery is a big commitment. therefore, you want to make sure that you are well prepared long before the actual procedure. By making sure that your mind and body are healthy and by planning for your recovery, you can ensure that your experience is a positive one.
There are many reasons why a man may want to look better. Perhaps they are attracted to younger women, maybe a little insecure or it could just be that they like to look good.
Most beauty tips these days are aimed at the female of the species but I know a lot of my male friends invest as much, if not more time and money in their appearance as I do. It’s quite amusing to have a flatmate that takes longer to get ready to go out than I do
I have a few thoughts on some real basic things that can be done to spruce up your image.
Get a decent haircut and keep on top of it This can take years off in one foul swoop
Use a moisturiser every day and each night before sleeping. your skin rests and recovers while your sleep so the evening dose is important.
Dental hygiene Nothing worse than yellow teeth and smelly breath, it just makes you look unkempt and is a huge turnoff.
Buy clothes that you are comfortable in but make sure they are age appropriate. Think mutton dressed as lamb, a term usually directed at women but suited to men too.
Perform facial exercises, this can sculpt your face and take years off you in a few weeks. This one is my favourite as you can maintain it for life. if you’re spending hours each week in the gym, what is a few minutes each day to create a chiseled face?
a close friend of the actor told, “Imran has been operated for a sebaceous gland problem.” Imran wasn’t discharged on the day the surgery was conducted. He had to stay in the hospital for more than a day and his wife Avantika was by his side all night. said the friend, “Imran was in acute discomfort especially with the cyst in his head. It had become very difficult for him to sleep straight and even comb his hair. It had to be removed.”
Ranbir Kapoor too had a cyst on his lower back and had to be operated in February this year. however Ranbir was discharged within a few hours while Imran had to be hospitalised for nearly 24 hours. a doctor on request of anonymity explained how a cyst can form due to a sebaceous gland. “Such cysts are not dangerous. but if not removed, they can grow and cause a lot of discomfort. They are formed generally when a sebaceous gland in one’s body gets blocked,” he said. meanwhile, an official from the hospital, who did not want to be named confirmed Imran’s operation under the guidance of Dr Tibrewala.
Fourteen-year-old Nadia Ilse got plastic surgery on her ears, nose and chin so kids would stop bullying her. she told Good Morning America:
By BETH HARRIS and PAUL NEWBERRYAP Sports Writers
