When you think of Miami, what comes to mind?
Sun, coast, sand.
But now, Miami not only satisfies all the imaginations of vacation, but also becomes a plastic surgery paradise in the United States. It's home to some of the hottest people in the world, and it's always open to those who seek physical beauty, offering them a face-to-body plastic surgery program, both men and women, at any cost.
Miami, the city of plastic surgery with fire for immigrants
Located in the coastal city of Miami in southeast Florida, the United States has always been known for its beautiful beaches and sunny weather throughout the year.
However, if someone has been on vacation for the past two years, they will find that even if you just want to lie on a beach chair and enjoy the scenery, you can't ignore the handsome and beautiful women with seductive curves who walk in front of you from time to time.
In addition to the coastline and American burger shops, the city is also full of plastic surgery hospitals and clinics of all sizes. And that starts with the people who live here.
While beauty is not defined, contemporary Americans are creating another set of iconic beauty with their own hands. The focus of their unified new age aesthetics is to create an exotic, preferably multi-ethnic mix: healthy wheat-colored skin, plump lips, a straight nose tip, large bright eyes, and an hourglass figure.
There is no specific body template for different ethnic groups, but this aesthetic standard is highly overlapping with the impression of Latin Americans. Most Latino women have medium to dark skin tones, are not very tall but curvy, and in contrast, traditional whites are more fluid in size and have a smaller waist-to-hip silhouette.
Miami has always been one of the top immigrant cities in the United States. In 2019, about 56.6 percent of Miami residents were born outside the U.S. and then immigrated here. Among them, Latino or Hispanic immigrants from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and other places dominate. Some writers have described Miami as the de facto capital of Latin America.
So, in this multi-racial, multi-religious immigrant city, the graceful curves of the body have become the mainstream of Miami. People who do not have a natural advantage have to seek the help of medical surgery to artificially shape the body of the convex and upturned. And even people who are already in good shape will never be satisfied with themselves and join the plastic surgery army without hesitation.
In addition, the hot body and the comfortable resort environment also complement each other. In South Florida, where people can walk by the sea in bikinis all year round, people here are born with a need for good shape more than anywhere else. And Miami's natural sand and sunshine provide the perfect recovery period for those who come here for plastic surgery, wearing a bikini on a hot beach and admiring their freshly shaped body, there is nothing more relaxing than this.
As a result, in 2016, Miami became the city with the largest number of plastic surgeons in the United States, with 3.9 plastic surgeons per 100,000 people engaged in liposuction, abdominal wrinkle removal, Brazilian buttock lifting and facial plastic surgery. The wide range of options and the growing number of successful surgical cases have also attracted beauty lovers from all over the world.
Miami Plastic Surgery immediately became a golden signboard. In China, some medical aesthetic institutions will organize a five-day and four-night trip to Miami, spending 50,000 yuan, you can participate in the plastic surgery summit, and conduct a week or so of "high-intensity technology demonstration discussion and learning". Naturally, after completing your studies, you are plated with a layer of gold, and you naturally become a "visiting" doctor in this plastic surgery hospital.
Peugeot Beauty in the age of social media
and star plastic surgeon
Native preferences may not be enough to get Miami out of the loop, but social media is really adding a fire to miami's plastic surgery.
Once a body shape begins to take off, social media will invisibly promote it as a kind of body anxiety. The star supermodels led by the Kardashian sisters, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are happy to show off their golden ratio of forward and backward in concave shapes, and people wonder whether these figures are real, while fanatically praising and paying attention to them. After that, the influencers also had the same body shape at some point, plus Peugeot's ins face: button nose, cat eyes and toot lips.
Instagram Faces swept social media
The overwhelming hourglass figure and ins face seem to be equated with natural superiority genes, and the average person who brushes social media will feel that he is the only person in the world who has not yet undergone plastic surgery.
While true Latino stars are still trying to move closer to the traditional white aesthetic in order to attract more fans, the exaggerated hourglass figure, especially the peach buttocks, has become the new favorite of more and more women in the West.
The wind blew from social media to the united states and even the world, and the smart Miami plastic surgeons did not miss this traffic dividend, cleverly using social media to promote themselves. A class of plastic surgeons appeared on Instagram and Snapchat, posting filter-free images of patients before and after surgery on social media, and unabashedly live streaming the somewhat "bloody" surgery scene.
Among them, the most popular star doctor is Michael Salzhauer, who claims to be Dr. Miami. Miami）。 His most common surgeries are for plastic surgery of body parts such as Brazilian buttock lifting, breast augmentation and abdominal wrinkle removal. These surgeries usually involve the patient's personal privacy, and the public display of these surgical scenes naturally causes a lot of controversy.
And the controversy is the best flow manufacturing machine. 100,000 people watched his surgery every hour on Snapchat, 420,000 people followed him on Twitter, he was interviewed by mainstream Western media, the Canadian Public Broadcasting Corporation even made a documentary specifically for him, and he also set up his own personal homepage.
The explosion of star doctors has made people notice the rapid development of the plastic surgery industry in Miami. As a result, more and more plastic surgeons have come to Miami to get a piece of the pie, which in turn has contributed to the Miami industry.
Exquisite middle-aged men,
I've begun to examine myself
Young people's pursuit of beauty has become commonplace, but surprisingly, more and more middle-aged men have also joined the plastic surgery army.
In Europe and the United States, plastic surgery to restore firmness to women after pregnancy is often called Mummy Make-Over, including abdominal wrinkle removal, breast augmentation, etc. But now, middle-aged men also have their own Daddy Do-Over plastic surgery.
While men do not experience the physical changes that women experience after pregnancy, the lifestyle they live in middle age often makes them blessed. Men notice that their bodies have changed as a result of aging, and the 30s and 40s seem to be more than ten years apart. After trying dieting and exercising but not being able to lose stubborn fat, they had to choose plastic surgery as a shortcut.
Especially during the pandemic, there has been a surge in male plastic surgery. The majority of men are clearly not prepared to observe their close-ups on screens so closely and for long periods of time in a continuous online meeting. The camera zooms in on the sunken and sagging jaws under the eyes, and some people develop anxieties about appearance and body. And these hours of not having to go to the office have become an excellent plastic rehabilitation period for people who have money and leisure.
Jacob Steiger, a plastic surgeon in Miami, said that since the covid-19 pandemic, airline pilots, hedge fund managers and some architects have come to him for facial lifts or bodylifts. They regularly do quarterly skin care, laser whitening, botulinum toxin on the cheeks and forehead, and others choose to have rhinoplasty and eye bags removed to make themselves look younger.
At the same time, in male body plastic surgery, the most common is liposuction surgery, which shapes the abdomen, flanks and back. Some people, because they face gynecomastia, need to restore the contours of their breasts by liposuctioning from their breasts. The remaining small percentage of men will consider hip lift surgery.
Steiger said that before the epidemic, only 10% of his clients were men, but after the lockdown, when the overall number of people undergoing plastic surgery increased, 25% of men came to do plastic surgery, with an average age of 37. More and more middle-aged men will consult with plastic surgery institutions, and they will be more concerned about their masculine appearance, such as a tight and smooth neck and a more bony chin.
The Brazilian buttock lift that has swept the world,
Charming and dangerous
But on the road to beauty, women always have to endure more pain and danger.
Regardless of how studies prove that the golden ratio of women's waist-to-hip ratio is 0.75, girls' pursuit of hourglass-type figures is almost obsessive. Peach buttocks spokesperson Kim Kardashian also deliberately sent X-rays ten years ago to prove that her buttocks are all natural. But then it was discovered that this happened to be achieved through a plastic surgery called Brazilian Butt Lift.
This surgery satisfies the beautiful imagination of "letting the fat in the body grow where it should be." Plastic surgeons inject fat from the flanks, abdomen and lower back into the buttocks to achieve the effect of lifting and enlarging the buttocks, and the average cost of surgery is about 15,000 US dollars.
This kind of surgery, which seemed to be more effective with less, immediately caught fire. Since 2015, the number of buttock lifts in Brazil has increased by 77.6%, making it the fastest growing plastic surgery in the world and, naturally, Miami's proudest surgery. In 2020 alone, there were 40,320 hip lifts.
The bustling industry will always become mixed in the process of saturation. Driven by money and the dividends of social media publicity, more and more small clinics are hiring irregular doctors to pay cheap surgical prices, and the enthusiasm for buttocks will make girls do whatever it takes.
Some women did have peach buttocks in the short term after spending $3,000 on hip augmentation surgery, but after 6 months the skin turned purple, like onion skin. Immediately after that, the injection site will peel, wrinkle, and fall. I went to a professional doctor and found that the substance I injected into my buttocks was mineral oil, and this kind of thing can be found everywhere in convenience stores, and a bottle costs $1.69.
Kim Kardashian's exaggerated hourglass figure
And even in regular hospitals, this kind of surgery is very dangerous. In the United States, plastic surgery can be performed legally as long as there is a doctor's license, regardless of whether they have received specialized plastic surgery training. There will be 2-3 deaths in about 6,000 cases of buttock lifting in Brazil, and although it is not felt from the data, it has a more fatality rate than any kind of body plastic surgery.
This Brazilian buttock augmentation requires the doctor to concentrate on the whole operation, once distracted, it will pierce the patient's liver or intestines, and the buttocks contain a large number of blood vessels, when the wrong injection into the buttock muscles is too deep, fat will enter the lungs or heart, resulting in pulmonary embolism, which is also the first reason for the death of Brazilian buttock lifting.
To minimize fatigue and distracting attention caused by the fat grafting process, experts recommend that surgeons do not perform hip lifts more than 3 times a day. But after the lockdown ended, the surge in surgical demand overloaded doctors, and in one hospital, each plastic surgeon performed 7 to 8 Brazilian buttock lifts per day, and the risk of death skyrocketed.
The nurse does post-operative repair/@Vice for the client
Meanwhile, another industry that is booming in Miami is postoperative recovery based on Brazilian breech lifts. The three-hour procedure requires a recovery period of 6 to 12 months, during which some patients are unable to bend over or lift heavy objects. Dayyani, who has just had a Brazilian buttock lift, said she felt like her hips were like a swollen beach ball, hanging a drainage bag on her hips and wearing tights to promote the combination of new and old fats. Nurses also need to massage the surgical site from time to time to minimize swelling. Dayyani felt like someone pinching their own burn wound with every massage.
Even though the recovery process is slow and painful, there are still countless women (occasionally one or two men) every year who are willing to pay the price of health, save enough money, and try to get close to the standard image of women who don't know who set them, even if they have to endure the ridicule and denigration that every trend has experienced again.
Resources:
Vice: How Miami became a hot spot for Brazilian Butt Lift recovery
Vox: The $5,000 quest for the perfect butt
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