Plastic Surgery Simulator Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac OS

PARIS, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaeria EURL recently released Plastic Surgery Simulator 1.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users and version 1.3 for Mac users. The application helps people to envision how they might look like if they undergo a cosmetic surgery procedure by allowing users to stretch, shrink, or move different parts of their body on photos, then view before and after pictures of themselves. Although the application can be used for fun, real plastic surgery results are never guaranteed and this simulation tool can help balance the decision process.

"People want to be beautiful," says Kaeria CEO, Benjamin Melki. "With this app, users can distort their picture to see how they would look with a differently shaped nose, breasts, chin, buttocks, and so on. Sometimes, just a slight modification makes a tremendous difference to one's appearance. It can be shocking to see the before and after photos."

The application provides realistic, high quality plastic surgery simulations for a number of procedures, in an easy-to-use interface.

Five percent of Plastic Surgery Simulator users are doctors, and although the application can be used for serious simulation, it can also be used for fun to distort people and pets in the most hilarious grimacing way.

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Hair Restoration Goes Mainstream: New Survey Finds

People With Hair Loss Are Not Afraid to Admit Getting Help

 

For many people, cosmetic surgery is no longer taboo to discuss and, in fact, procedures often are shared openly in social circles and in the workplace. The reason? More options than ever before to nip, tuck, restore, enhance and rejuvenate nearly every aspect of one's appearance.

 

Now, new findings released today from a recent member survey conducted by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) -- the world's leading medical authority on hair loss and hair restoration -- finds that people undergoing hair restoration surgery also are more willing to own up to having a little work done on their locks. 

 

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Facelift Makes You Look 12 Years Younger

New Study Helps Set Expectations for Recovery and Results after Facelift Surgery.

Patients who have undergone a facelift rate themselves as looking an average of 12 years younger after surgery, according to a study in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

After a "significant" recovery period, the vast majority of patients undergoing facelift surgery are satisfied with their results, according to the study by Eric Swanson, MD, an ASPS Member Surgeon in private practice in Leawood, Kansas. "These findings support the recommendation of surgical facial rejuvenation to patients who wish to look younger," Dr. Swanson writes.

For Most Patients, Facelift Improves Appearance and Quality of Life:
Dr. Swanson performed a detailed analysis of the outcomes in 122 patients who had a facelift between 2002 and 2007. The patients were 82 women and 11 men, average age 57 years. The patients were interviewed an average of seven months after their operation. Most had other cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, such as forehead lift and/or eyelid surgery, at the same time as their facelift.

The patients were highly satisfied with their results. The "average subjective reduction in apparent age" was 11.9 years, with a range of 0 to 27½ years. Ninety-seven percent of patients said the results met their expectations. Forty percent rated the results even better than expected.

Nearly 90 percent of patients said they had received positive reactions from other people regarding their new appearance, while only seven percent reported negative reactions. More than 80 percent of patients reported improved self-esteem, and 70 percent reported improved quality of life.

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Why mice are being gassed so YOU can look younger

Most people thought animal tests for cosmetics had been banned - don't be fooled...

When Jenny Brown agreed to go undercover to investigate the testing of a rival to Botox on animals, she knew it might be unpleasant, but nothing had prepared her for this: highly trained lab technicians kneeling on the floor while they tried to break the necks of mice with a ballpoint pen.

Even worse, having to watch as those technicians botched the job — and broke the creatures’ backs instead. Jenny’s secret filming of the operation shows the mice still alive and writhing in agony with broken spines. It also shows others being poisoned with deadly injections and, if they survived, being gassed to death by the hundred.

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Bye bye Botox? These celebrities claim to have given up their frozen faces - but have they really?

After years of claiming her perfect, wrinkle-free features were totally natural, Nicole Kidman finally admitted last week that she has tried Botox in the past. However, the 43-year-old actress swears she no longer uses it because she didn’t like the results.

And she wasn’t the only one who thought this. In 2008, one cosmetic surgery expert told a medical conference that the Oscar-winner was so ‘over-Botoxed’ she was giving the industry a bad name.
Nicole is the latest in a long line of stars who swear blind that they’ve said bye bye to Botox, but can we really believe them?

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The £4,500 op to get rid of my Christmas pud

I have never longed to look like one of those male models you see in adverts, with bulging biceps and washboard abdominals.

That kind of physique takes a rare set of genes and hours spent working out every single day. Life's too short.

But since my early 20s, I have been a regular at the gym. It's more damage limitation than anything else and I hoped exercise would offset my love of pints and the occasional pizza.

Yet, having always been pretty much in proportion  -  a healthy 5ft 10in and 11 stone  -  as my 30th birthday crept closer, I developed what some might unkindly call a paunch. My metabolism was naturally slowing down.

While women may acquire saddle bags, men accumulate fat round their middle. I exercised harder but the fat stayed where it was, wobbling insolently centre-stage.

Having a bit of a pot belly isn't the end of the world  -  I didn't lie awake at night worrying about it  -  but I wasn't that happy. And this was my state of mind when last year, on a journalistic commission, I investigated the boom in male cosmetic surgery. In particular liposuction, the surgical removal of fat.

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Botox or no-tox... How high-maintenance is YOUR beauty regime

By Elsa Mcalonan

The Big British Beauty Poll, commissioned by Olay, is one of the biggest beauty surveys ever conducted in the UK  -  20,000 women, aged 18-65, were asked about their beauty habits, covering everything from how much they spend to how they feel about Botox.

The results are in, and here we can exclusively reveal what British women really think about beauty.

BOTOX VERSUS NO-TOX?

Botox is out! Now it’s official — women prefer ‘Super Facials’ as the top anti-ageing treatment. The ‘frozen look’ has been given the cold shoulder as women opt for the needle-free method of turning back the years.

When asked ‘Would you consider having, or have you had, any of the following anti-ageing treatments?’, 67 per cent chose anti-ageing facials, 43 per cent micro-dermabrasion, 27 per cent facial peels, 25 per cent laser re-surfacing and 24 per cent cosmetic surgery.

Botox was least popular, scoring only 21 per cent. As high-profile celebrities such as Dannii Minogue say ‘no more’ to Botox, women are following the trend and turning to super-charged facials as alternatives to firmer, younger-looking skin.

A-list facialist Anastasia Achilleos says: ‘I’ve noticed more and more women switching from Botox to high-performance facials.

'They’ve heard about the rejuvenating effects you can achieve from new facial techniques and are looking for a softer, more individual approach to anti-ageing. Now that celebrities are ­coming out against Botox, there’s a growing trend for a more natural look.’

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Is having cosmetic work done the new normal?

As more ordinary women opt to undergo cosmetic work, Justine Picardie argues they are losing more than just a few wrinkles in their quest for ageless perfection.

Earlier this month I found myself sitting next to Courtney Love during Paris Fashion Week. At 47, she looked astonishingly smooth of complexion - her skin unwrinkled, her cheeks and lips as plump as a Renaissance cherub. But beneath her dewy foundation, there were faint signs of yellow bruises, as if this fresh face had blossomed out of a fight.

It's never easy to untangle hard facts from candy-floss gossip in the reporting of celebrity cosmetic procedures; but several newspapers have commented approvingly on Love's new look, and attributed it to Dr Sam Rizk, a New York surgeon who performs a 'stem-cell facelift', whereby the patient's own fat and adult stem cells are extracted, separated and then injected back into the face. This is, apparently, the latest breakthrough in the quest for youthfulness - with more desirable results than the obvious facelifts of the past, which gave everyone the same scarily tautened skin and identikit noses.


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