Celebrity Cosmetic Disasters

The problem is seeing this ratio is something that comes naturally to a person with a good 'aesthetic eye' and it is something that you cannot reprogramme a practitioner's brain to have if it is absent. It is similar to the fact that you cannot send someone to Art school to teach them to become a good artist; you either have it or you don't. Now you can learn music as it is developed on a different ratio of harmonics, fifth and minors.

These can be written down and reproduced. You could do it mathematically with facial aesthetics but most of these doctors would be better off employing a staff member with a 'good' eye and asking them what they think of the lips or the breast size. I do it all the time, even though I could have gone to art and medical school.

The reason that most of these patients look unnatural and overdone is purely down to the fact that most of their lips are made artificially to remain outside the natural anatomical ratio and our brain reads that as associated with a disease or in our minds 'freakishness'. The outer portions of nearly all of these clients are in my opinion, overfilled.

The outside portion of a lip should not be filled to prevent 'trout pouting'; in every one of these instances, there is evidence that this has happened. The beautiful 'cupid's bow' appearance of most of their central lips has been edited out during the augmentation.

In fact, I am at work today with a well-known patient from London trying to reverse the effects of a dermal filler someone injected into her face. There is no explanation for the horrendous visage that I have had to try and reverse, other than the fact the procedure performed on her is amateurish in the extreme.

The problem is that it is not a reversible filler and she may require an operation to remove it. I am looking at a photograph on the list of someone I had to treat because of something that was injected into their face. The patient was told and apparently consented to another product.

Why do celebrities, who should have expert guidance go to people like this?

I feel it is for two reasons, the first is in my experience most of these clients suffer from some form of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and often will not listen to reason, however sensible. Hence, they often seek out people or practitioners who will do what they request from them solely for the status of being associated with celebrities.

The second is this market is driven by PR companies, glossy magazines and digital marketing. Like most of this recent acceptance of mediocrity and the non-descript boy band era that has been thrown upon us, respect for talent is lost somewhere is the midst of people craving fame at all costs and the consequence of it all is the horrendous images that become front covers of our magazines.

As Oscar Wilde once said, "ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities".