If the hoopla surrounding the $40,000 stem cell facelift on offer to one of the winners or presenters at this year’s Golden Globes is anything to go by, the role of cosmetic surgery and injectables is still, despite being fairly ubiquitous in celebrity circles, hotly debated. Factor in ethics and potential results – or disasters – and you have many, many column inches devoted to what A-Listers have or haven’t had done.
Emulating the results isn’t as simple as having a bit of botox, it seems. In fact, Signature Clinic, the UK’s largest cosmetic surgery provider, have released stats that suggest the exponential rise in the appetite for a panoply of surgical and non-surgical enhancements isn’t going to wane anytime soon. This didn’t surprise me; it’s now commonplace to discuss an injector or surgeon recommendation in casual terms alongside a brilliant facialist or hairdresser find. I was surprised, however, by the breadth of the nature of procedures happening...
