Real Chinese Women Who Are Now Unrecognizable Due to Plastic Surgery

[KamaAina]

http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Extreme-Plastic-Surgery-Causes-Passport-Confusion-36109761

South Korea is the cradle of skin care innovation, which also makes it the metropolis of cosmetic surgery. According to the Central European News, 20 percent of Seoul women age 19 to 49 have gone under the knife. In fact, women are traveling from bordering countries like China to undergo top-rate plastic surgery procedures. But what happens when these women attempt to return home completely transformed? Total passport confusion.

The procedure lists range from simple Botox injections to double eyelid surgery to a full jaw renovation. So it's no surprise that these shocking before and after pictures are causing misunderstandings at border airports. Now after face-altering procedures, Chinese women have to carry special plastic surgery certificates listing their passport number, the hospital attended, and the length of their stay to pass through. Some even walk through customs with stitches and bandages still intact.

This influx of patients to South Korea is due to a lack of trust in the resident Chinese surgeons. Back in 2010, pop star Wang Bei died of cosmetic procedure complications, which only added to the fuel of unreliable certifications and ghost doctors. Plastic surgery tourism isn't reserved for the China-South Korea border. Women also flock to Western Hemisphere countries like the Dominican Republic and Mexico for more affordable procedures. Keep reading to see more before and after photos of real Chinese women who have undergone major plastic surgery.

[PasadenaTrudy]

1. I saw this on Jezebel last week...

Makes me sad on so many levels. I wish people could see the beauty in their own unaltered faces. I love interesting, imperfect faces!

[Spaldeen]

2. I read somewhere

That some of the women were getting sued for having babies not as attractive as their new looks.

[bettyellen]

3. actually the skin lightening is pretty disturbing to see.

[NewJeffCT]

6. skin lightening

and, surgery to make your eyes look bigger are as common in China as breast implants and liposuction in the US. Look at most Chinese movie actresses from China - large round eyes and fair skin. Same with news anchors in China - women news anchors are almost all young, pretty, fair skinned and have big eyes.

[bettyellen]

12. oh I know, it's not uncommon with women of all colors- even fairer older women reducing skin damage

and of course, Beyonce. Interesting it has never caught on with men.

[NewJeffCT]

13. what's physically attractive in men

tends to differ than what is physically attractive in women - the things that are more attractive in men are things that are acquired through time at the gym and/or playing sports and performing physical labor. A guy can work out to get big muscles or a flat stomach. You can't really get bigger eyes and boobs or fairer skin at the gym. (Though, you can cut down the desire for liposuction)

[bettyellen]

14. but lighter skin is prized and rewarded among both sexes in so many cultures....

it is about the only thing I can think of that is considered more upscale/ desirable in both men and women. I've known some men to do it, but none with anglo complexions. I guess WASPs already have their ticket punched and do not feel the need, so to speak.

[RobinA]

15. As a WASP

who needs blush to just look like I'm still alive, I'd give anything for some color.

As a rule,
man's a fool.
When it's hot
he wants it cool...

People with pale skin pretty much just think about the disadvantages to pale skin, much like people with color think about the disadvantages of color.

[NewJeffCT]

16. I think both men & women

often want what they don't have - asian women with naturally straight hair sometimes want their hair curly, while african-american women sometimes want their hair straight. A lot of women want to be taller, but I remember a very tall college professor bemoaning the fact that she was too tall and always dreamed of being petite, or how a few other tall women I've known over the years say that some guys just aren't as interested because they're taller than a guy that might otherwise be interested...

Not always the case, of course, but it certainly seems that way a lot of the time.

It's not as outspoken in men, though I'm sure some guys think it as well.

[bettyellen]

18. you think the disadvantages of color are "much like" each other for pale and dark skinned people?

The dark skin people I know have lightened up were hoping for better lives- especially jobs.

[PasadenaTrudy]

17. Or not shaving for a few days...

Just the right amount of scruff=*swoon*

[BlueJazz]

4. As far as the 2 photos posted, I don't think that they are all THAT different. The ones at the..

... link are pretty dramatic.

[NewJeffCT]

5. that last one is really extreme

she almost doesn't look real in the "after" picture

[SomethingFishy]

7. One of the few network TV shows I watch is Bones

and they did an episode where a murder victim was "addicted" to plastic surgery. Bone's response was one of the reasons I love the show, she was talking to the woman's surgeon and he reached out to touch her and said "You have beautiful structure but it's not to early to start looking at problem areas"... Her partner replied "I wouldn't do that if I were you, she'll break your arm, she thinks what you do is...."

And Bones said "Barbaric".

[Aristus]

8. The 'double-eyelid' is known as the epicanthic fold.

As far as I'm concerned, it's one of the signature characteristics of Asian beauty. Why anyone would want to get rid of it is beyond me.

[KamaAina]

9. My friend Lois-Ann Yamanaka writes of this in her "Heads By Harry"

set in Hilo, on Hawai'i (Big) Island. Some of the local-girl characters would get that surgery to make them look more haole (Caucasian)!

[Aristus]

10. I thought 'haole' was pejorative.

Why glorify something looked down upon as detrimental?

Why can't beauty just be beautiful?...

[KamaAina]

11. It can be, but isn't always

Generally the pejorative term is "f'ing haole". By itself, it's just a descriptive term, like "Japanee", "Chinee", "Portagee" and so on. For whatever reason, the only one that is pejorative by itself is "popolo" (black)!