Topic: cosmetic surgery

Kris Jenner: ‘Everyone’ Needs New Fake Breasts Every 20 Years

Kris Jenner: 'Everyone' Needs New Fake Breasts Every 20 Years

In her brief, dark career in the spotlight, Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner has made a valiant effort to be The Worst and every time we cover her, she gets a little closer to achieving her evil goals (despite stiff competition from her many offspring). Lucky for her, few subjects offer a better space for the Kardashians to behave grotesquely than beauty–especially cosmetic surgery. So, first off, apparently Jenner got new breast implants. But of course there’s more. More »

Portraits Of Extreme Plastic Surgery Ask: “Can Humans Create A New Kind Of Beauty?”

Portraits Of Extreme Plastic Surgery Ask: "Can Humans Create A New Kind Of Beauty?"

Photographer Philip Toledano‘s series “A New Kind of Beauty” raises some interesting questions about the relationship between plastic surgery and beauty–questions we’ve wrestled with on this very blog. Can altering oneself cosmetically be a form of self-expression? Or is it always, at least in part, determined by prevailing opinions about beauty? Opinions, of course, that are often sexist, racist, classist and all kinds of barbaric. Toledano’s strange, unsettling images concern those who have taken plastic surgery to extremes, but depicts them in classical portraiture. More »

Introducing ‘Brotox:’ Because We Need An Obnoxious Name For Men Getting Botox

Introducing 'Brotox:' Because We Need An Obnoxious Name For Men Getting Botox

More than 300,000 men got Botox last year, an apparent 10 percent increase from the previous one. Which sounds like a terrific excuse for a pointless trend piece, namely: women are offering to foot the bill for cosmetic procedures for their husbands and boyfriends! The most popular of these procedures is, unsurprisingly, Botox, and ABC is on the case of its increasing popularity with men–”what some are calling Brotox.” Silly, ABC. No one is calling it that. More »