HoundsGood: Chronicles of a Virtual Volunteer

(At Left: Marsha said: Oh, My Nose!  Nowadays, guys may be walking into the surgeons office and saying “Give me Bobby’s!”  Nose, that is.  Read on.)

I had some downtime this afternoon after a busy morning, and was sitting down and flipping through the channels. One channel was playing reruns of “The Swan.” You surely remember that show, or at least the premise. It rode the beginning wave of the Frankenstein makeover shows. Of course, it was from the same time frame as “Extreme Makeover,” which later begat “Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The difference was that “Extreme Makeover” chose individuals of either gender, and often chose people who had disfiguring complications like an eroded jaw that made for bad teeth, or an injury that was never fixed. However, there were plenty of people who looked just fine, but lacked confidence. Often the people turned into a prettier version of themselves.

On the other hand, “The Swan,” for the most part selected a group of women, and put them through fitness, better eating habits, counseling, and of course…the knife. The biggest difference was that all the women somehow had the same exact nose after surgery, making me wonder if the surgeon had some fatal attraction and made everyone look like this woman. Of course, in addition, one was chosen as “THE Swan.” It was like getting “Most Improved” in spelling class except you were turned into a fembot instead of getting better grades.

With elective cosmetic surgery procedures being so widely accepted for women and no longer in the realm of recapturing youth or reconstrucion, cosmetic surgery for men is growing as well. It truly has left the “Doctors Without Borders” realm of fixing people up, and into the typhoon of vanity.

I wonder if guys will start getting plastic surgery in such numbers that we will begin to recognize “the new chin” or the “new nose” because it looks like everyone elses. I also wonder if guys will start walking in with magazine photos or baseball cards and saying “I want HIS chin.” With some facilities like Mya Cosmetic Surery in the UK offering payment plans, and convenient schedules, a guy could come back with that “you look different but I can’t put my finger on it” statements from coworkers.  Maybe so.   I wouldn’t like it if I was dating a guy, and they suddenly showed up with a whole different face, but of course I am going overboard.  I don’t think they would let anyone do that with out a psych evaluation.

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