Physical perfection,multiple surgeries and other thoughts

[APD1]

Hi! :P .... been looking through some of the pictures pre and post surgery posted by Allanah and Vicki.
I'm curious.Is the decision to go under the knife simply a matter of looking in the mirror, not liking what you see, and then getting a quality surgeon to fix it?Do any of the girls here have a preconceived idea of the face they want to end up?
I suppose most people here know about the golden mean,or golden ratio.If not:
http://www.beautyanalysis.com/index2_mba.htm
The faces we find intuitively beautiful,composed of ajoining parts that are in the ratio 1.618:1 .We see the same ratio in Greek sculptures,Renaissance paintings , Indian temple carvings to modern fashion magazines.
Another few images:
http://www.beautyanalysis.com/index2_mba.htm
I was watching a BBC documentary on the golden ratio.In an experiment the public consistently prefered a face which had been digitally altered to fit with the golden mean.
I've seen Doug Ousterhout use a golden mean gauge
http://www.goldenmeangauge.co.uk/ when deciding the final proportions in feminization surgery.This probably explains why he generally has better results when he works on the whole face;everything has to be in proportion.
(on a minor point I think Dr Ousterhout takes a bit too much away, in a jaw reduction, from the sideline of the jaw; but I suppose, from looking at the work of other surgeons, he is pretty conservative).
Put it simply beauty is ,though, in the eye of the beholder, based on ,well established, aesthetic and scientific principles.If its fixed don't break it.Well, that's my two cents.Till then.....
Happy Thanksgiving :D

PS how do you post links properly? :? :?:

[BeardedOne]

I'm not going to get into the do's 'n dont's of surgery, as in many cases I'm of the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" school.

I can, however, take a stab at your tech question. :)

I think if you take the url brackets off, it should post correctly as a link.

So: [/url]http://www.beautyanalysis.com/index2_mba.htm

Becomes: [url]http://www.beautyanalysis.com/index2_mba.htm

But that's a guess, really. Lessee if it works...

Yup, it does. And I got to edit out my mishhpeelings. :)

[slinky]

I think if you take the url brackets off, it should post correctly as a link.

Nah... it's that the "/" at the beginning belongs in the trailing html, not the first one. It posts correctly because the board script recognizes the url as a link and puts in the html markup automatically (see it when you quote someone who has it in their post).

[tsbrenda]

this DR who founded that math relationship says he is a terrible plastic surgeon and that he can not get it right on discovery channel.
I BET HE IS BETTER NOW!

[APD1]

Actually,Brenda,this mathematical relationship was discovered by the Greeks 2500 years ago.
As for anybody's actual technical skills as a surgeon,I don't feel myself in any position to offer recommendations.If I seemed to make any in my previous post,I apologise for not making my message clearer.
It's simply the case that I keep seeing women get routine nose jobs or jaw contourings, which are done without any regard to the overall structure of the face; correspondingly with variable results.Femininity is great :P but beauty is just as important. :wink:
To show that I'm not in such bad company:here's Leonardo Da Vinci:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/8228/leo.htm
PS:thx for helping me out with the tech problem beardedone 8)