Aging Gracefully, the European Way
February 23rd, 2011
According to a recent article in the New York Times, the objective of plastic surgery in Europe, says Dr. Michel Soussaline, a Paris surgeon with more than 30 years of experience, is “to keep the natural beauty and charm of each individual woman, not to fit some current ideal of beauty.â€
We will likely see the opposite of this philosophy during the parade of Hollywood stars on Red Carpet this Sunday. The Academy Awards receives worldwide attention, only partly due to handing out the coveted Oscar statues. The rest of the media hype revolves around fashion, make-up and cosmetic surgery, and especially targeting those who look less than divine.
It has been reported that American women who particularly spend so lavishly on cosmetic surgery, fillers and wrinkle potions, prefer to be noticed. I tend to agree with this premise. However, by contrast, European women are more discrete and are genuinely thrilled when nobody notices a little Nipntuck. We’ll see if this year’s Oscar coverage fulfills these claims.
Editor’s Note: So Hollywood
February 14th, 2011
I was in Los Angeles recently and I had an interesting stop light encounter. A woman pulled up next to me and remarked on my license plate and asked if I was with the TV series Nip/Tuck. I said no, but my husband is a plastic surgeon and without missing a beat, she hurled several questions at me. Does laser really work, how about lipo, should she have her eyes “done� Well, Ralph is accustomed to having people corner him at social events for impromptu consultations, but this was definitely the first red light drive by one!
I simply reminded her that it was my husband who was the doctor and wished her well in her beauty pursuit. The incident put a smile on my face for the rest of the day! Only in Hollywood.
Photo credit: By Sten Rüdrich, via Wikimedia Commons
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