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Our society’s obsession with glamorous celebrities has led to a rise in people performing DIY cosmetic surgery – and the results ain’t pretty.
Horrific stories have emerged of amateur plastic surgery attempts which have left the perpetrators scarred for life, including a nose job done with a chisel, DIY tummy tucks performed with kitchen knives, ironing out wrinkles, and even the tale of someone pinning back their own protruding ears with glue. Experts have warned against the increase in botched DIY plastic surgery, which they blame on people’s fascination with perfect looking celebrities.
A UK based psychiatrist has warned that DIY cosmetic surgery is on the rise. Dr David Veale, who has identified the trend for DIY plastic surgery, works at a celebrity rehab clinic called The Priory, and he blames it on the cult of fame which forces people to believe that looks are everything. Some cases are linked to a severe condition called body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The condition, which affects over 1 million people in the UK, causes sufferers to actually “see” a hideously distorted image of themselves in the mirror, no matter how attractive other people may perceive them to be. BDD can lead to a lifetime of misery, and sufferers may shut themselves away from the world, unable to function normally because they believe that their appearance is so repellent.
But it’s not only BDD sufferers who attempt to perform plastic surgery on themselves. Some seemingly ordinary people, dissatisfied with their appearance but unable to afford surgery, have taken matters into their own hands.
A woman in Dublin, California, scarred her face permanently when she bought a $10 vial of silicone of the internet and injected it into her lips and cheek. Her face became red, inflamed and swollen within 24 hours of the DIY jabs, and she now calls her own actions, “Insane”. She had to undergo surgery to correct the dreadful results, and may have to undergo more to clear out all the material that she injected. Then there was the man in the UK who performed a grisly DIY nose job with a chisel, then tried to replace the cartilage he removed with a chicken bone. Or the Korean woman, addicted to plastic surgery, who became unrecognisable after injecting cooking oil into her face – surgeons removed 260g of fat from her face in the first procedure to correct her horrific DIY treatment, but she is still disfigured for life and faces yet more surgery.
DIY Botox kits, chemical peels, even a hand held laser skin resurfacing device are all available on the internet to anyone who has the bucks to pay for them and is stupid enough to use them. The easy access to DIY surgery tools is not only dangerous to the body dysmorphic syndrome sufferers, but also to anyone else who suffers from low self esteem due to the way they think they look. Our fame obsessed culture plays fast and loose with the insecurities of so many of us, and celebrities (and there must be many) who don’t admit to the plastic surgery that they have had only make us feel more inadequate.
The only way to have safe cosmetic surgery is to consult an experienced, board certified surgeon. Or if you want minimally invasive rejuvenation treatments such as facial fillers, don’t buy them off the internet to save some pennies, go to a licensed medi spa that has a good reputation and ideally has been recommended to you by someone that you trust. Because if you try to save money on cosmetic surgery by going DIY, you certainly won’t be saving face.
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