Proposed EPQ Plan - 5/01/2015

EPQ Plan

Introduction

• What is plastic surgery? Different types, types not normally considered to be plastic surgery but actually are
• Why do people get plastic surgery?
• The effect of bullying and the media on young people
• Percentages of people having different types of plastic surgery

Point 1 – why do people get plastic surgery?

• Wrinkles – fear of ageing
• Treatments are accessible (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22277890)
• The availability of non-surgical treatments has helped to normalise cosmetic procedures, fuelled by the celebrity culture which pervades much of the media. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22277890)
• Psychological reasons - bullying; reconstruction after a mammogram; Katie Piper
• Celebrities and their impact on fans - Dolly Parton; Katie Price; Jodie Marsh

Point 2

Point 3

Point 4

Point 5

Conclusion

Points to research/ work on

• Vanity vs. bullying
• Quotes from celebrities – Joan Rivers "I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die, they will donate my body to Tupperware"
• Renée Zellweger’s plastic surgery – ‘unrecognisable’
• What surgery can people get because of bullying?
• Breast reductions because of back pain etc.
• Sinus surgery (Kaley Cuoco)
• Case studies as to why certain people have had surgery
• 3 breasted woman – fame, attention, too much money to handle?
• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/french-breast-implant-pip-jean-claude-mas-jailed
• If everyone gets plastic surgery to stop them from looking old, will we have no old-looking actresses etc?
• Do the risks outweigh the benefits?
• Is makeup not enough for women? False eyelashes; Lip Voltage; face contouring palette
• What’s the difference between getting your teeth straightened and having surgery? Surely it is for the same purpose; to look better.
• Selfies cause plastic surgery: looking closely at yourself and publishing that worldwide - want to look the way you can edit yourself
• Selfie article - 10 per cent rise in nose jobs and a seven per cent increase in hair transplants. Six per cent increase in eyelid surgery.
• Can ex-service personnel receive plastic surgery to correct injuries on the NHS or by the MOD

Research: Vain

Research: Vain

Darryn Lyons: The Guardian - Darryn Lyons's no-sweat six pack

• Costs between £4000 - £9000 says Marco Moraci, a cosmetic surgeon at the Harley medical group, who reckons Lyons underwent a procedure known as vaser liposuction. 
• This involves inserting a metal tube into the abdominal area that destroys the surrounding fat and all but burns the skin, causing it to tighten and give abs better definition.

Katie Price

• countless number of surgeries
• Katie Price most famous boobs
• 'didn't feel confident in herself'

Joan Rivers

• 739 cosmetic procedures
• joan rivers

Questionnaire Published

I have designed a questionnaire in order to find out what people consider vain in relation to getting plastic surgery. I also wanted to find out how many of the random amount of people that I surveyed knew someone who had plastic surgery or whether they had it themselves. This will give me an insight into how much of the population is connected to plastic surgery, and what influence this causes. I asked whether or not people thought that celebrities with plastic surgery were having a negative effect on children and teenagers, and whether products such as Lip Voltage should be sold.

Questionnaire link

Lip Voltage

Lip Voltage

On a website called 'To Make You Look Gorgeous', Lip Voltage by Dreamweave is sold at £16.00. It is designed to look like a Botox injection, where you use the syringe to inject as much of the lip plumper as desired into the lip gloss. It uses 'Nano technology to fill and volumise the lips' for an effect that 'lasts for up to 24 hours'. With continual use over time, the collagen builds in the lips to create softer and fuller lips. The lip plumper is described as a 'non-injectable lip plumper', but gives the effects of lip fillers:

"Few people have asked me if I've had lip fillers...No girls it's 

all down to Lip Voltage"  -  Danielle Armstrong from TOWIE

Pros:

• stops girls/women from wanting plastic surgery as they can receive the desired effect from a lip gloss
• it is safe, as many cosmetic procedures can go wrong or women can want fillers removed over time
• temporary solution that could increase confidence
• don't have to go overboard using it, as you can use as little or as much lip plumper as you want, which could increase confidence

Cons:

• can be sold to kids (no age restrictions), which could be dangerous
• could encourage others to get plastic surgery, including teenagers and children, as they see the effects but want a permanent solution
• it is up to you to control the amount of lip plumper added, which could also be dangerous if instructions haven't been followed. Other, safer products are available, such as 'Sexy Mother Pucker', where the plumping is controlled as it is sold as a ready-mixed lip gloss and it doesn't tingle as much as Lip Voltage
• are those that don't own the product not gorgeous?

To Make You Gorgeous

Soap and Glory Sexy Mother Pucker

Research: Not Vain (continued)

Research: Not Vain (continued)

Service men and women - reconstructions (Sir Harold Gillies)

• Sir Harold Gillies is said to be the first plastic surgeon (WW1) - making masks for burned patients whose faces couldn't be reconstructed by surgery
• flap surgery - first person believed to have had plastic surgery by Gillies

Harold Gillies

Cancer patients

• skin grafts after skin cancer
• Skin Cancer and skin grafts

Botox for hand tremors

• tremors

Research : Not Vain

Research: Not Vain

Botox – Boots Web MD

MS and muscle spasms

• Botulinum toxin is used to decrease spasticity related to multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions. 
• Botox injections may help stop muscles contracting or twitching when the person doesn't want them to.

Excessive sweating

• Botulinum toxin is a treatment option for excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis. 
• It works by blocking signals the brain sends to sweat glands. 
• Botox injections are given in affected areas, such as the armpits, hands, feet or face. The procedure can last up to eight months.

Essential tremor

• Essential tremor is a nerve disorder causing uncontrollable shaking or tremors affecting different parts of the body. Botox injections have been found to be effective for vocal and head tremors.

Bell's palsy

• Bell's palsy causes the drooping of the side of a person's face because of nerve problems. The effect usually goes after some months. 
• However, Botox injections may be used in long-term Bell's palsy to relax muscles that have become tight or to help reduce unwanted muscle movements or twitching.

Pinnaplasty

• The most common procedure is for your surgeon to make a cut on the back of each ear to remove a small area of skin close to the groove between your ear and the side of your head to expose the cartilage. Your surgeon will then reshape the cartilage to allow your ears to lie closer to the side of your head.
• Other techniques may involve removing a small amount of cartilage or reshaping the cartilage by lightly cutting into it. Stitches may be used to help maintain the new shape. 
• Alternatively, stitches can be used to reshape the cartilage without cutting into it. This is most often used in children with softer cartilage.
• Once your operation is finished, your wound will be stitched up and a dressing applied. You may need to wear a bandage around your head to cover both ears. This will protect your ears and hold them in their new position while they heal.

Lip Voltage - The Luxury Beauty Company

• Celebrity-favourite, DreamWeave & Co, has announced its most exciting and innovative product to date – Lip Voltage.
• In a world-first, ladies can control how much plump they want in their pout by literally ‘mixing up’ the voltage of this duo product treatment plumper. Wearers simply add a VBE*-infused lip plumper to the peptide treatment, mixing the formula together to achieve their desired ‘voltage’.
• The customisable lip treatment can provide low, medium and even high voltage, which turbo boosts the plumping effect in just a few drops! With continual use over time, the treatment builds collagen to create softer, fuller lips.
• This is one beauty must-have that should be at the top of every girl’s wish-list this year.The resulting effect increases the blood flow, mimicking the effects of chilli and pepper, without irritating the skin.

Why does it tingle?
To circulate the blood flow into the lips and open the pores for quicker pentration.

Katie Piper -Daily Mail: Acid attack victim: I heard a horrible screaming sound... it was coming from me (by Katie Piper, 30 January 2011)

• I had suffered third degree burns, as well as losing most of my nose, my eyelids, and half my left ear.The acid had also damaged my eyes, my mouth and my tongue. It had splashed on to my arms, hands and legs, and burned right through my neck and cleavage.
• Nine days after the attack, my surgeon came into my room and explained I would soon be having a major operation. Mr Jawad seemed like an angel to me and I knew he would do his very best. Two men had destroyed my face and now this one was going to try to rebuild it.

Daily Mail: Brave acid attack victim Katie Piper says she would never judge someone who has had cosmetic surgery

• Her eyelashes, due to the skin grafts, tend to grow inwards, pricking her eyes, so she has them pulled out. ‘But when you lose your entire face, losing your eyebrows and lashes is nothing.’ 
• Even though she has had more than 200 procedures, more are planned: she will have nasal reconstruction to help with breathing, and as her eyelids contract, they will turn inside out, and have to be corrected. 
• Her oesophagus narrows as the scar tissue hardens, so she keeps having to have it widened. I tell her the pain I felt after my face-lift seems like nothing now. ‘Yeah, people think it’s frivolous to have something done, but it’s not something most women enter into lightly. You have to be desperate.’