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WACKO THINGS WOMEN DO TO THEIR BODIES.(plastic surgery for feet and other unusual procedures)
Cadaver-cell lip injections labia shipping makeup tatooing...women are requesting the most bizarre body work imaginable, and plastic surgeons are complying. Cosmo examines these weird, risky procedures.
* Patty Egan [*] was devoted to her sky-high stilettos and the way they made her legs look superslim and sexy. But "wearing them was constant agony," says the 29-year-old New York City fashion designer; each step sent shooting pains up her legs. Fed up with heel hell, Patty decided to change not her shoes but her feet. Last October, she had a doctor perform a new laser surgery that plumps up and softens the balls of the feet, in effect padding them against the unnatural impact. "It's like magic--now I can wear the highest heels without any pain!" she exults.
That may sound like an extreme way to get more mileage out of your high heels, but Patty is hardly the only woman going into uncharted territory when it comes to plastic surgery. Once people stopped raising eyebrows over face-lifts and tummy tucks, it was probably inevitable that surgeons would begin to fix, alter, or improve less obvious body parts--all in the name of convenience or vanity. Today, women are being injected with cadaver cells to plump up their lips, using poison to stop profuse sweating, and even surgically changing the look--and feel--of their vaginas. Cosmo explores these wacky and possibly dangerous operations and discovers why women are spending big bucks to have them done.
FREAKY FIX-IT 1
CADAVER-CELL INJECTIONS
It sounds like something out of a low-budget horror movie--injecting skin cells from dead people into a living body. But that's just what women are having done to make their lips fuller and wipe out wrinkles.
In a procedure called soft-tissue augmentation, the next-to-top layer of skin is stripped off a human cadaver, then doctors inject that collagen-like material into a problem spot. The dead skin fibers also spur new tissue growth, which further fills out lines or plumps up lips. "Although it sounds ghoulish, it's the fastest way to create a bee-stung lip look and erase furrows," says Fredric Brandt, a dermatologist with offices in New York City and Miami.
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