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South Korea is well known for its love of plastic surgery, having as it does the highest rate per capita. Surgeries that enjoy the most popularity include rhinoplasties (nose jobs) and also eyelid surgery – often, it’s believed, to give the eye a more Westernised look by removing hooded lids. The latest craze though now [...]

A move by a group of UK plastic surgery clinics to improve the reputation of plastic surgery through more honest advertising is being blocked by magazines. The adverts used images of realistically sized women and were distributed to several online magazines. They featured a selection of photographs with close up images of women sporting problem [...]

Do you have good general office experience? Are you interested in the aesthetic industry? Aurora Clinics are now seeking a full-time customer facing Patient Co-ordinator to work within our well established and popular private cosmetic group. This is a key administration role joining a small, close-knit team at our Gatehouse Clinic in Northampton. About you [...]

Angelie Jolie – global superstar, partner of Brad Pitt and mother to six children, has made the brave step to make public her decision to undertake a double mastectomy following the discovery that she carries the BRCA1 gene. The gene makes hereditary breast and ovarian cancer significantly more likely, and as her own mother passed [...]

Are you an experienced administrator looking for a new challenge? Do you have an interest in plastic and cosmetic surgery? About the Role We are now seeking a dynamic, customer-facing Patient Co-ordinator to join the team at Aurora Clinics, a well-established and popular private cosmetic group with clinics across the UK. This is a key administration role [...]

British photographer Phillip Toledano has published a book, ‘A New Kind of Beauty’, which explores extreme body modification and questions whether it represents humankind at the precipice of some kind of evolutionary change. His striking photographs show a very modern subject whilst employing traditional elements of classical portraiture; his influences include 16th century realism painter [...]

Both here in the UK and globally, various surveys have uncovered what hot and what’s not in the land of cosmetic surgery – with figures out from top procedures to the total number of operations through to amount of money spent, for both 2012 and 2011. A new study, by French-based IMCAS – a forum [...]

American plastic surgeon, Dr Anthony Youn, who is a regular on TV shows and in magazines, has come under fire for a supposed copyright violation against photo agency National Photo Group. The celebrity surgeon, who has appeared on reality TV show Dr 90120, used a shot of Cyndi Lauper with the caption – ‘Cyndi Lauper [...]