Men Body Sculpting
From moob (male breast) jobs to nose jobs and liposuction to taking botox injections, more and more men are going under the knife - in the quest for perfection or to turn back the wheels of time and look young for numerous reasons.
Global patterns indicate that men, close on the heels of the fair sex, are willing to pay to alter their appearance. According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, there has been an increase of 17.5 per cent in the number of male surgeries over a year.
Nose job or rhinoplasty is the top choice among men followed by tummy tucks, liposuction, male breast reduction, hair transplant and laser hair removal. Apart from these there are other specialised non-surgical services like facial rejuvenation, fillers and facelifts that are becoming a rage to ensure the feel-good factor.
The popularity of treatments can be further categorised according to age. Nose jobs, breast reduction and laser hair removal are hot among 18-30 year olds who are crazy about the so called ‘sexy male cleavage’. On the other hand, for 30-50 year olds, pot belly reduction, liposuction, hair transplant and other age-defying and fat reduction treatments like botox, fillers, micro-dermabrasions and facelifts are extremely popular.
Till some time back a hairless body or removing wrinkles was considered feminine amongst the male species. Today, a smooth chest or a ‘six-pack’ ab or shelling out a lakh rupees for ‘Pectoral Implants’ to give that muscled look only adds to a man’s machismo.
Read what Rakesh, a 47-year-old broker, has to say about the potbelly reduction treatment that he took and you will know that it’s not just about the improvement in physical state but also the mental and moral boost that a modern age beauty therapy ensures.
“My personal as well as professional life came to a halt as I couldn’t even walk due to my big belly. Whatever little amount of exercising I was doing made me feel exhausted and didn’t do any good to reduce weight. So, I underwent this surgery and today I feel much lighter and healthy. My looks have improved, I look much younger and my confidence has doubled.” See one is getting this woth out Daily Workout
For Deepak Mehrota, marketing executive with an MNC, getting a nose-job added to his confidence. “The inferiority complex has just vanished and I appear more presentable now. I can feel the difference in the kind of reception I get now. Those strange looks have just vanished and my clients look more impressed now.”
Modern age beauty treatments are no longer the privilege of models and actors. Be it a lawyer, a media professional or a doctor ...today, just about anybody can go under the knife in order to look and feel good.
‘Men, money and beauty’ equation which was limited to just a hair-cut, a good shave or for that matter a head massage till sometime back has altered its form over time. Men who were mere partners accompanying their wives to a skin clinic are gradually transforming into active treatment takers. Now an increased number of men are ready to shell out moolah like never before on a variety of beauty treatment options available to them, both surgical and non-surgical.
Talk about the average amount a modern man is ready to spend and answers Dr. Hema, “Men who come to us are game to spend anything between Rs. 10,000-50,000, once they are convinced about a treatment and the effect it is going to have on them.”
What are the risks? Once you have made up your mind about a treatment, telling your doctor what exactly you are looking for is the first and the most important step. But like every medical procedure, there is some element of risk here too. “However, getting treated by an experienced person always helps,” says Dr. Anoop Dhir, senior cosmetic surgeon, Apollo Hospital.
“Patients should understand that cosmetic surgery can help only to the extent of making corrections under realistic parameters, you cannot change your complete appearance with a surgery. That happens only in movies,” sums up Dr. Malik.
It is also proved that loosing weight improves sexual function.
