Would you undergo the knife?

Would you undergo the knife?

A-list celebrities are always going under the knife and altering the way that they look, and for many women it now seems like a natural part of getting older. Celebrities have made it the ‘norm’ but will going under the knife be a good decision? Celebrities like Pete Burns and Hedi Montag proves that going under the knife isn’t necessarily a good way to alter your insecurities and it can in fact make you look worse for wear and ‘fake’.

In theory, cosmic surgery has many positives; it makes us look younger for longer, alters our faults, removes are wrinkles and a whole bunch of other good stuff. However, going under the knife doesn’t always give us the results we were hoping for. Going under the knife can have many complications including infection, severe bleeding, nerve damage, tissue death, bruising and fluid collecting around the site.

Scarring is also possibly when you have plastic surgery. It is also possible that the image of the ‘new’ you does not match up to reality and you may become depressed.

The cost of plastic surgery is expensive and it can put you in a lot of debt if you decide to have plastic surgery. Is beauty really worth that amount of money? And will it make you happy or is there a deeper reason why you feel like you’re not happy? You should concentrate on these reasons before you make your final decision to alter your body.

As well as all the medical risks that could happen when a surgeon is performing plastic surgery, you could become addicted to it. You make start seeing it as a way to alter little things you deem to be imperfections and go under the knife every time you decide you don’t like something. This could have drastic results and make you look worse than the natural you.

So if you’re considering going under the knife, think about the consequences first. Our imperfections make us who we are and what you hate, other might love. Think why you feel like you are unhappy and consider whether it comes down to beauty or there’s something else hidden deep inside you that is making you feel insecure.

By Claire Lancaster