What The?!

[Apocalypse]

Cut-throat competition

China will soon host the finals of the country's first beauty contest in which every contestant has gone under the knife.

Twenty "man-made" beauties will parade their surgical nips and tucks next Saturday in the hope of taking home the country's first Miss Artificial Beauty crown.

The contest is the latest addition to China's beauty pageant scene after Miss World was held in the southern island of Hainan for two years in a row.

Beauty pageants were once considered reviled displays of western decadence but have become big business in Communist-ruled China following more than two decades of economic reforms.

"I wanted to convey a message to society -- that the pursuit of beauty is ageless," said 62-year-old Liu Yulan, the oldest contestant who turned to plastic surgery to smooth facial wrinkles and fill out her drawn cheeks.

Another contestant, who did not make the Miss Artificial Beauty finals, spent 300,000 yuan ($A47,680) in her quest for the perfect body, according to a Chinese Website.

Organisers dreamed up the pageant after one woman who splashed 110,000 yuan ($A17,490) on improving her looks attempted to sue them for banning her from the finals of a traditional beauty contest in May.

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AdvertisementPlastic surgery clinics offering everything from liposuction to eye re-modelling have mushroomed in major cities in China in recent years.

Reuters

[Mausey]

What's next, an Olympics for athletes that admit to using performance enhancing drugs? :roll:

[C_ris]

Whats the point of that??? :eek:

[Greenrider Tresa]

Oy...What do you want to bet there's an increase in plastic surgery as a result? Even for people who didn't need it in the first place...




Tresa

[zankoku]

Whats the point of that?

Maybe who has the sharpest knife.

Jim

[AnnMarie]

That is just sick.

And what kind of message is that for young girls? "Don't match what others think of as beautiful? Spend your life's savings and change it! Never mind that it has some side affects!" :banghead:


This is why my husband and I have told two model agents locally to keep walking when they tried to get us to sign our daughter up. We want her to be happy being HER.... not some "creation". :box:

[Mausey]

Our phone books were delivered today and there was a bookmark in the bag advertising plastic surgery, botox and wrinkle removal. The dratted stuff is being pushed everywhere you look.:banghead:

[zankoku]

Don't forget the local newspaper, especially the "Free" newspapers

Jim

[Pat]

I remember seeing a TV show quite a few years ago about a woman who saved and saved and saved........

To have herself restructured to look like !!! :eek: BARBIE

If THAT isn't scarey!!!!

I've seen the liposuction procedure....awful stuff!!!

[Milo]

yeesh.

[Apocalypse]

I remember seeing a TV show quite a few years ago about a woman who saved and saved and saved........

To have herself restructured to look like !!! :eek: BARBIE

If THAT isn't scarey!!!!

I've seen the liposuction procedure....awful stuff!!!

I saw an interview a while ago with an Asian (Oriental) woman who had surgery to make herself look white - the broken most of her facial bones to reset them... :faint:

[Calaedros]

Ew. I'm sorry, but I really don't see plastic people as beautiful...

Cal

[Apocalypse]

Ew. I'm sorry, but I really don't see plastic people as beautiful...

Cal

Wot he said. It's a strange world.... made stranger by the almighty advertising dollar... :banghead:

[ladyholdermara]

There is a show here, I can't remember what it's called but basically they take ppl who are in need of a MAJOR makeover and make them beautiful.


I've seen a few and yes I guess there are SOME ppl who benefit from a little help due to serious birth defects or accidents, and their self esteem have certainly benefitted from it as well, the the MAJORITY of ppl on there I've noticed are quite pretty already, they just don't think so. I think it's pretty sick, bawling their eyes out "Oh I'm sooo ugly", makes you wonder who been telling them that all their lives.

[Michael]

Maybe a new reality show would work.

Try thinking Fear Factor, with the contestants being judges at this beauty pagent. Okay, I know; what's so scarey about that? :roll: Well, we hold the pagent right after their cosmetic surgery, before they've had a chance to heal... :evilgrin:

Scared me just thinking about it. :chickensmilie: ;)

In all seriousness, it seems like a rather stupid concept for a pagent to me. Cosmetic surgery should be limited to people who need it, ie: accident victims and people with birth deformities as pointed out by ladyholdermara above. IMHO others are just being vain...

Take care,
Mikey

[Nurianna]

I remember seeing a TV show quite a few years ago about a woman who saved and saved and saved........

To have herself restructured to look like !!! :eek: BARBIE

If THAT isn't scarey!!!!

I've seen the liposuction procedure....awful stuff!!!

;) Have you seen the new Barbies?? they have gone thru a brest reduction

I make crochedted barbie dresses for toddlers to use easily and I have to make them 2 stitches smaller now~ :laugh:

[Michael]

;) Have you seen the new Barbies?? they have gone thru a brest reduction

:( Poor GI Joe...

Mikey :wave:

[Apocalypse]

;) Have you seen the new Barbies?? they have gone thru a brest reduction

I make crochedted barbie dresses for toddlers to use easily and I have to make them 2 stitches smaller now~ :laugh:

:laugh: She's still out of proportion though, isn't she?

[Miss K]

:( Poor GI Joe...

Mikey :wave:

:rofl:

BTW - Whats with the ... The message you have entered is too short !!
(Well at least it lengthened my message!!)