I kid you not...
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semiotic_pirateAren't content with the way your eyelashes look? Not long enough, or thick enough to satisfy you? I'm sorry, I realize that the world (western, whatever) seems to be caught in this aging is BAD in a BAD way - hide it, disguise it, lie about it... Because it is okay to lie about your age, it is okay to lie about what you were born to look like, and so forth. I realize that there have been studies that prove that "pretty" people get more things done. However, did they do a study on positive versus negative people, no matter what they look like, and their effectiveness? Because, I'm sorry, no matter how pretty you are, if you are an ass I'll know after a little while and I won't treat you like you are the bestest thing on the planet if you're an ass no matter what you look like. The oversexualization of society is stupid. Forcing women and men to contort themselves into a "fashionable" image is stupid and a way that society is annhilating itself with. Fuck that shit. The economy doesn't need fashion like it needs food and well wrought products that last a lifetime. High gear consumerism doesn't help the economy, it makes it unstable. Yeah, let me turn everything into an economic argument. Lastly, I love that this originated in Los Angeles. 0_o
On with the show:
Eyelash transplants set to sweep nip tuck world
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Think you've seen it all when it comes to cosmetic surgery?
Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women -- and the occasional man -- convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.
Using procedures pioneered by the hair loss industry for balding men, surgeons are using "plug and sew" techniques to give women long, sweeping lashes once achieved only by glued on extensions and thick lashings of mascara.
And just like human hair -- for that is the origin -- these lashes just keep on growing.
"Longer, thicker lashes are an ubiquitous sign of beauty. Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure," said Dr Alan Bauman, a leading proponent of eyelash transplants.
"This is a brand new procedure for the general public (and) it is going to explode," Bauman told Reuters during what was billed as the world's first live eyelash surgery workshop for about 40 surgeons from around the world.
Under the procedure, a small incision is made at the back of the scalp to remove 30 or 40 hair follicles which are carefully sewn one by one onto the patient's eyelids. Only light sedation and local anesthetics are used and the cost is around $3,000 an eye.
The technique was first confined to patients who had suffered burns or congenital malformations of the eye. But word spread and about 80 percent are now done for cosmetic reasons.
For many women, eyelash surgery is simply an extra item on the vast nip tuck menu that has lost its old taboos.
More than 10 million cosmetic procedures -- from tummy tucks to botox -- were performed in the United States in 2005, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The figure represents a 38 percent increase over the year 2000.
Erica Lynn, 27, a Florida model with long auburn hair, breast implants and a nose job, had eyelash transplants three years ago because she was fed up with wearing extensions on her sandy-colored lashes.
"When I found out about it, I just had to have it done. Everyone I mention it to wants it. I think eyelashes are awesome. You can never have enough of them," Lynn said.
Bauman, who practices in Florida, does about three or four a month. Dr. Sara Wasserbauer, a Northern California hair restoration surgeon, says she has been inundated by requests.
"I have been getting a ton of eyelash inquiries ... If I had $10 dollars for every consultation, I'd be a rich woman."
The surgery is not for everyone. The transplanted eyelashes grow just like head hair and need to be trimmed regularly and sometimes curled. Very curly head hair makes for eyelashes with too much kink.
**the last statement seems just like the warnings for olestra... ~snark or, more seriously, the every so small print on the tobacco products, after they'd been forced to put them on the packages in the first place.**
On with the show:
Eyelash transplants set to sweep nip tuck world
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Think you've seen it all when it comes to cosmetic surgery?
Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women -- and the occasional man -- convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.
Using procedures pioneered by the hair loss industry for balding men, surgeons are using "plug and sew" techniques to give women long, sweeping lashes once achieved only by glued on extensions and thick lashings of mascara.
And just like human hair -- for that is the origin -- these lashes just keep on growing.
"Longer, thicker lashes are an ubiquitous sign of beauty. Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure," said Dr Alan Bauman, a leading proponent of eyelash transplants.
"This is a brand new procedure for the general public (and) it is going to explode," Bauman told Reuters during what was billed as the world's first live eyelash surgery workshop for about 40 surgeons from around the world.
Under the procedure, a small incision is made at the back of the scalp to remove 30 or 40 hair follicles which are carefully sewn one by one onto the patient's eyelids. Only light sedation and local anesthetics are used and the cost is around $3,000 an eye.
The technique was first confined to patients who had suffered burns or congenital malformations of the eye. But word spread and about 80 percent are now done for cosmetic reasons.
For many women, eyelash surgery is simply an extra item on the vast nip tuck menu that has lost its old taboos.
More than 10 million cosmetic procedures -- from tummy tucks to botox -- were performed in the United States in 2005, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The figure represents a 38 percent increase over the year 2000.
Erica Lynn, 27, a Florida model with long auburn hair, breast implants and a nose job, had eyelash transplants three years ago because she was fed up with wearing extensions on her sandy-colored lashes.
"When I found out about it, I just had to have it done. Everyone I mention it to wants it. I think eyelashes are awesome. You can never have enough of them," Lynn said.
Bauman, who practices in Florida, does about three or four a month. Dr. Sara Wasserbauer, a Northern California hair restoration surgeon, says she has been inundated by requests.
"I have been getting a ton of eyelash inquiries ... If I had $10 dollars for every consultation, I'd be a rich woman."
The surgery is not for everyone. The transplanted eyelashes grow just like head hair and need to be trimmed regularly and sometimes curled. Very curly head hair makes for eyelashes with too much kink.
**the last statement seems just like the warnings for olestra... ~snark or, more seriously, the every so small print on the tobacco products, after they'd been forced to put them on the packages in the first place.**
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Date: 2006-10-25 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 11:22 am (UTC)images of french braided eyelashes came to mind and WON'T GO AWAY!!!!
arrrggghhhh!!
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Date: 2006-10-25 05:49 pm (UTC)hahahaha
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Date: 2006-10-25 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 11:27 am (UTC)Seriously, it's going to take a damn sight more than an eyelash to affect how people think about anyone. I have yet to hear someone sasy "she's got an awful personality, I hate her - but check out those EYE LASHES!"
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Date: 2006-10-25 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 06:31 pm (UTC)I saw that and thought ICK!!!! *shudder*
Samuel Johnson once said, "I can conceive of no knowledge so useless that I would be better off in ignorance of it." But wow, I can sure conceive of knowledge so squicky I'd be better off without it...
you're welcome!
Date: 2006-10-26 02:19 am (UTC)