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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1988.
Dr. Moderni gives the answer to the most bitter accusation a woman can make about another's beauty....
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THAT WOMAN'S A CHEAT!!!
Your face may be your fortune- or your misfortune.
But there's no need to stick to the same old face!
Facial surgery has reached such
lifetime.
Whether your nose is too high on the bridge, too prominent on the tip or just too long, we can re- mould it.
Even with double or triple chins!
Among the most frequent dis-}" figurements you are likely to see to-day are the scars left by gland disease in the neck.
Half an hour's work and we a stage to-day that it is no longer have remedied or minimised the necessary to bear old scars, un-fault.................
This can now be replaced by a sightly marks or slight abnorm- All
sorts of jokes have been thin, inconspicuous scar which lies alities on the face throughout a made about face-lifting, but it re-so. neatly in one of the natural mains a serious and vastly-folds of the neck that it can How has this improvement come improved science.
scarcely be detected." about?
You can try the first step in Well, it's one of the few bless-facé-lifting if you sit ings the Great War gave us in-mirror. directly.
before, a
The planning of scars has be come quite an art.
The art that conceals art.
It is important to realise that surgical treatment for fat must only be thought of where the need is great and when other methods have failed.
How much does it all cost.? Well, if you engage a skilled People find it harder and harder surgeon to remould your face or to get enough exercise these days; figure, it's going to cost you quite Pull the skin backwards just in surgical and other methods of a lot. During the war there were so front of your ears and watch fighting fat are becoming even First there are nursing home many dreadful cases of mutilation those wrinkles disappear! That's more important.
fees, then the anaesthetic fees, and treated by facial surgeons that what face-lifting does permanent- More complicated is breast-lift-the fee for the operation itself. they acquired a vast amount of ly.
ing, another operation that serves fresh knowledge.
to build the new woman.
Surgeons proceed very carefully indeed here.
Generations of peace could not have produced the cases that four years of war brought before the surgeons.
After the war surgeons were left with this valuable knowledge, an improved technique and an array of new instruments.
We started to analyse the face, feature by feature: its expres- sions; we studied the factors that make a frowni or a smile..
Well, let's start on your face. Take its prominent feature, the
'nose.
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We can reshape your nose to-day completely that your friends would not recognise you,
An ellipse of skin is removed to tighten things up.
The scar of the operation is skilfully hidden under the edge of the scalp.
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The breast is a delicate affair, and it does not do to interfere with it overmuch until it has done its job' in life.
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Actors and actresses knew all about this long ago, but they used After that it is apt to droop a adhesive under their wigs to get little, and when there is any spare the effect.
adipose tissue, it is apt to collect Pouches beneath the eyes are re-more than its share. moved in the same manner.
They can be transformed into a On the stage, in the films, in the delightful figure once more. But big.stores, it doesn't pay to have alit is an operation which needs tired look. Face lifting makes for skill, knowledge and art.
success.
The biggest bane of the modern woman is — fat.
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Here, too, the surgeon can now To do this, we remove pieces of help. Dieting and massage are bone and cartilage through an in- the most popular ways of conquer ternal incision. All types of lumps ing fat, but the surgeon's knife and excrescences can be smoothed can give a drastic. but, neverthe- down.
Iless, effective remedy.
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is circular incision
made round the nipple, and this is trans- ferred higher up to its proper site.
Then two big, sweeping, horse- shoe cuts in the lower part remove the excess skin. -
Many of the facial adjustments I have been telling you about are not really necessary to physical health, so you must think before you decide upoň expensive treat- ment.
In some cases, though, the sur- geon's-fees will be more than balanced by the economic results of removal of some unpleasant facial defect.
Ugliness is bad for business. Unsightliness is an obstacle to
progress.
Where they can be easily remov- ed, it is foolish to ignore the bene- fits of progress made in one of the newest departments of surgery.
THE QUEEN'S CHINA
Fat and tissue are taken away! from inside, and the true breast curled round on itself in a spiral to meet the new site of the nipple. The Queen and Queen Mary are Then the horseshoe cuts are giving a lead to housewives in the stitched together, and their scar selection of new china. · A com- ́ comes under the new breast, where bined dinner and tea service just it cannot be seen, even with the selected by the Queen has plates lowest-of-evening-frocks.. __________with_fluted edges — a revival of a
At one time the external scar of Victorian fashion. They are any
operation didn't bother the honey glaze, garlanded with pastel patient much and it may be, coloured anemones. least of all, the man who made the operation.
But to-day modern bathing cos- tumes, sun-bathing outfita, flimsy sports clothes, all make this a most important consideration.
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