Survey Says Britons May Double Makeover Spending By 2009

• Wednesday July 19, 2006 in: Global Plastic Surgery Tag(s):

  

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  Cosmetic surgery nowadays has become more socially acceptable than it had been 10 years ago. Information about the different kinds of cosmetic surgery procedures are becoming more and more accessible, effectively demystifying this branch of surgery. And the popularity of plastic surgery reality TV shows such as Extreme Makeover doesn't hurt either.

  The rising trend in the popularity of cosmetic surgery can be seen in the United Kingdom too. Bloomberg reports that a survey conducted by British market research company Mintel concludes that by the year 2009, Britons will be spending close to one billion pounds on makeovers.

  Britons are likely to almost double spending on plastic surgery to about 1 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) a year by 2009 as procedures become more socially acceptable and recovery times shorten, according to market research company Mintel.

  In 2005, Britons spent 539 million pounds on surgical self improvement, a 50 percent increase from the year before, Mintel said in an e-mailed statement today. The most popular areas for renovation were the face and neck, accounting for 30 percent of procedures, and costing 108 million pounds, the company said.

  Mintel also found out that breast augmentation is the fastest-growing procedure, increasing 150% between 2003 and 2005. This is one of the reasons why sales of large bra sizes in Britain have tripled over the past three years, says this Daily Mail article.

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Cosmetic surgery. That doesn't include my desire for laser hair removal on my face, does it?
durante vita at 4:26am on Jul 16, 2006