Is It Cosmetic Or Vanity
The term 'Cosmetic Plastic Surgery' is so often used in very negative ways. With so many people having face lifts, breast implants, liposuction, tummy tucks, eye reshaping and lip fillers, it is hardly surprising that the lines between vanity plastic surgery and cosmetic plastic surgery have become blurred.
'Cosmetic' when used with the term 'plastic surgery', used to mean that the surgery needed to be done because the body part was exposed. In essence, the surgery was needed because the person's body part did not look the norm. Whether it was to fix a nose, eradiate facial scarring, or, help a woman born with back debilitating heavy breasts, cosmetic surgery was deemed necessary.
Vanity surgery, on the other hand, is undertaken entirely for the sake of vanity. There is no medical reason why the surgery needs to be undertaken. Here you have the celebrities with their facial tweaks, permanent eyebrows, a bit nipped in here, another bit there, all because they want to look forever young.
Let us start differentiating between the two and keep it real.