Would you ever consider getting plastic surgery to alter a physical feature you were unhappy with?

maybe in an accident

Depends on mostly if Have the money. I don't plan on saving up for something like this.

No, I wouldn't choose to have unnecessary (at least in my opinion) surgery.

No I believe I would never have any cosmetic surgery. I just believe you have to live with who you are. I have never been one to worry about appearances.

I'd only do this if I were in some type of accident that caused a major deformity.

YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN! I'm tired of people telling me to keep my chins up! I just have an echoing facial structure.

Yes, I would someday like a breast lift and removal of all the extra skin left since I lost weight. This is not anything I have as a priority because of the expense.

Maybe in certain circumstances IF I had the money. Such procedures cost too much and there is too much pain and discomfort involved to make me interested even if I DID have the money. I'd have to be super-desperate.

I often wondered what I would look like with an eyelid lift.

I would do it to restore myself if I was disfigured. I assume most people would do this.

Why should I? I don't have a nose long 20 miles (I don't like my nose that much, but hey!), or anything like that.

I think plastic surgery should be used only if you're a monster. Not because you want your bewbs to be bigger (who cares how big they are...men? well I don't think they like to touch fake boobs...I wouldn't if I was a man...) or because you're 50 and think you're old. You're old. I mean well not super old, but of course you will look not so young. That's how life works. And you can be beautiful at 50 and over. But I dare you to find someone that is beautiful at 50 that used surgery. Those who are really good-looking and sexy simply let nature take their course.

I could only see myself doing this if I had been involved in a serious accident. Maybe something involving dynamite and wolverines...

I really really agree with you!

Naw... Why? I don't even bother to dye my hair!!

I may consider surgery to remove growths that may potentially become something other than their benign selves... Other than that - no.

I have a next door neighbour who's 76-78? And to me, she's really good looking! Sure, she's certainly not 20 yrs old anymore but I told my husband that this woman must have been a real looker in her day and I was right - I saw pictures of her in her "dancing" years! Movie star stuff!! We had her over for a drink at Christmas time and she told me that one of her boy "friend's" from her "dancing" days called her up. She said he called her some 20 years ago when her first husband died but they never got together, then she remarried and now, she is again a widow. She admitted to me that she didn't want him to see her as old as she is... And I told her: "What? And you think this guy hasn't aged??? You think he still sees you as you were??? Bet you he still will!"
I know from experience (and I have less, much less, years than her) that when someone has known you at your best - they tend to still see you that way! My husband once bought me some lingerie that would have fit my daughter! Just goes to show you... A guy my husband used to work with is now our representative where I work and he treats me like a Queen! He remembers too! All other people I meet now, only warm up once they get to know me and my looks have nothing to do with anything.... Hmmm, this leads me to think that my looks may have had nothing to do with my popularity in the past? NOT! Big boobs turn heads - even if they know your mind or not!!
Anyway -when I grow up; I want to be an old lady! This way, I won't be disappointed!

You know, beauty really is relative... We live in such a youth oriented society that we tend to only see beauty in youth (especially when we are youthful!) My neighbour thinks that my (almost) fifty year old brother is cute and looks like Eric Clapton (she's a big fan!)!! He is rather handsome and fit - for an old man!!

yeah, i'd want a boob lift to help those sagging suckers, and some skin removal, for there is too much drooping sagging stuff in certain places..blech
but this is not even close to a reality or anything in that order, just a daydream

Only if it was reconstructive surgery. Other than that I'm quite happy with the way I look.

naaaaahhh!

Yep, definitely keep considering the sex-change operation. If they had reproductive organ transplants, I'd go that route too if I could afford it.

I checked maybe.
I'm very uncomfortable with the idea, though of going under the knife for cosmetic reasons.
On the other hand, I've spoken with my dermatologist about trying to get rid of some of the ruddiness in my face...and I probably would've gone as far as "under the knife". But there isn't a way to "fix" the rosacea I have (just acceptance of ME)!

I already have. I almost got my ears fixed, so they're not as dumbo as they are now. They're not too bad, but I just strive towards perfection. I'm going to do it eventually. There are few other things I am planning on eventually doing.

Yes, absolutely! If I had the money I'd have liposuction tomorrow to reshape my butt, hips, thighs and lower abs. I'm very pear shaped. I've lost enough weight to look decent on bottom, but I look sickly on top. I hate it!

Maybe if I was disfigured in an accident/attack. But not for normal wear and tear, or to change the way I look naturally. I hate the idea of face-lifts - wrinkles show so much more about a person. An older person without wrinkles *cannot* be beautiful.

Sure why not. I'd quite like a nose-job.

I'd love to get rid of my rosacea. It hurts a great deal and looks awful. I'd take a facial skin transplant if the technology was reliable.

No.

My SO gets rosacia, but he has some antibiotics and a lotion he uses to clear it right up. Have you tried something like that?

Are you on medication for it? Cream?

it would really depend upon the problem and the surgery. There's nothing I would currently consider changing with plastic surgery.

Yep, I hate my nose. I also have chubby cheeks... blah

I was on antibiotics for a year once and it didn't really help. Plus, being on antibiotics all the time can't be good. I do use metrogel, and it helps clear it up once it surfaces. I avoid exposing my face to very hot or very cold weather, and avoid spices, but there doesn't seem to be a good way I've found to avoid stress, which is my current problem! The truth is, I probably worry more about how it looks than anything. And, honestly, there's probably a component of vanity in there. If it got worse I might consider stronger measures, but for the most part I've just gotten used to it. I only really pine for the old days when I had better skin when I look at old photos!

Maybe my SO gets a milder case of it then, because the antibiotics worked really well for him. I agree that they can't be that good for you, but apparently it's also a very low dosage. Of course, I can't even tell when he allegedly has this rosacea! He always has pink cheeks anyway! I think he only got it when he moved to Boston--he grew up in Hawaii, and the change in weather seems to have brought it on.

only if I was in some unfortunate accident, or disease that my nose falls off. But b/c my eyes look hollow or something that's natural, no.,

*claps*

I know exactly what you're talking about. There's this woman that comes into my store, and has this long curley hair, down to her waist, and it's brown. Her eyes are so damn huge that it's ridiculous, in fact I wonder if she blinks. She doesn't have much for wrinkles, but I'd easily say that she's at least 50. She looks like a porcelain doll, or at least that's what she's trying to achieve, it's just so damn scary...a pleasant woman though.

I know how you feel when you say "facial skin transplant". Like I said above, I would have been willing to go under the knife if it was an option.

From what I've read, rosacea can come and go in cycles. I had a really bad case for a year or two when I was 24, and it came back when I was in my 30s. I would be handling it more aggressively if it was permanently disfiguring me (my skin is somewhat thicker & less flexible from the flare-ups but I don't have rhinophyma - the swollen, reddened nose associated with people like WC Fields, which in his case may have been due to alcoholism rather than rosacea). I guess mostly I just wish I'd be able to turn off my concern about what other people must think (especially people I don't know well). In fact, maybe they don't even notice really - they just assume that's what I look like. Another opportunity to work on my human foibles, I guess (in this case, vanity).

She sounds scary.

I'm 20, and I already have the faint beginnings of crow's feet around my eyes and lines on my forehead - nothing you'd see unless you're close up, but they are there. I'm 20, I'm around the prime of my youth and I don't have perfect tight skin! Whenever I smile, I can see exactly where all my wrinkles are going to be, and they're going to look just fine. I wouldn't want to be wrinkly right now, but by the time I'm 40/50....of course. I actually think the ageing process is going to do my features a favour, provided I don't gain weight - I can see it in my female relatives (although they have all gained weight so it isn't as clear how good they look now they're older).

I think I know based on my father and grandfather, Going to start going bald, no real wrinkles so to say, but light creases

I believe you inherit your chance of balding on the X chromosome, so from your mother. You can better predict how likely you are to go bald by looking at your mother's father and brothers

I thought that was just an old wives tale? Matters not, I don't think she had any brothers anyway, not that I'd know them if she did

If there were such thing as a skin transplant - I would have it done, no question. Anything else, no.

I'm pretty sure that the general pattern of baldness is largely X-linked, but there will be factors affecting baldness coming to you on both your X and Y chromosome. It isn't as simple as one gene controlling it.

The best predictor for your own baldness would be your maternal grandfather, if you knew him - as your mother will definitely have his X chromosome, although you may have inherited your mother's mother's X chromosome instead.

My head's going kooky now!

I don't think it's your head, I think you're just kooky

Biggles is right. My husband is 33 and bald. He started going bald at 19. His father and paternal grandfather both still have heads full of hair. But his maternal grandfather and his mom's brother are both bald.

Most likely true!

I just had some varicose veins on my face laser zapped off my face and I currently look like I just got missed by a shotgun. But it will go away and I will feel more confident. I know that's not surgery but I would consider a breast reduction.

Well, I guess it'll be a big myster then Biggles is right

Sure. I've thought about having implants, but they're too expensive. My husband said he likes my boobies the way they are, but I've just about decided that when I have the extra dough, I'll at least get them put back where they used to be. I'm by no means going to go into debt for it, though. I'll have to already have the money socked back.

maybe

Only if I was disfigured by an accident. Even them my husband would still think I was gorgeous so maybe not.

I think plastic surgery is for suckers. The change needs to happen within or you'll never be satisfied with how you look. I can usually spot someone who's had it done from 15 feet away, and they always look unnatural, which I find very ugly.
If I was somehow disfigured and it crippled my social life, I suppose I'd look into it. I guess for me the point is to look normal, not perfect. Anyone who thinks they can buy perfect looks is an idiot.

Surgery is not worth it.

I would be interested to know if the people that would be interested in having plastic surgery(not to restore damage from an accident) have ever actually had surgery... If they have had major surgery, then they would know what type of pain and recovery is involved... if not, then they are in for quite a terrible surprise..

I'm really satisfied with how I look, but if I was in an accident and something was messed up and it damaged my self esteem, then I would definitely get it fixed. Otherwise, I don't think I would consider it unless it was something that played a major part in my life.