The extremes of beauty Bashny.Net

Photographer Chen Chang has created a detailed project about the world of plastic surgery. She photographed the five girls who competed for the title of the fourth "Models of cosmetic surgery" Korea. It's a contest sponsor clinic of the so-called "areas of beauty" - Shinsa area. With a population of 50 million people and an area of ​​a little more than Ohio, South Korea is fast becoming a world center for cosmetic surgery. In 2009, there were more than 4,000 clinics and 46% of adult women in Seoul once in your life, but came to a plastic surgeon. Each of the girls participating in the competition provided the plastic surgery cost 15 000 dollars. The prize - the opportunity to get the appearance of which they dreamed, as well as a chance to tell their story on the Internet. After several months of operation, which includes the preparation and postoperative recovery, the participants, who, by the way, not all were satisfied with the operation, appeared before the judges. In the first photo in front of you winner, 21-year-old Han Ji-hai.

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1. Han Ji-Hai, 21, a student. Because of its massive jaws Woman often teasing at school and university. But Han Ji-Hai decided to change, taking part in the contest of plastic surgery. She was one of 300 women who applied to participate. After two and a half months she did two operations on his chin. "When I'm on the bus or subway, it seems to me that people are only looking to my chin," - says the girl.





2. Hong Hai-Ching, 21, another finalist. In this photo, she makes an x-ray of the chin, which will also soon undergo surgery.



3. Doctors are doing a survey jaw Han Ji-hai, to make sure that girls do not have any contraindications to surgery.



4. 19-year-old Si Jae Seo hopes that after surgery she will fotogienichnoy. It wants to reduce the face of that, it believes, will help her to become more beautiful. She dreams of becoming an actress.



5. Nurses prepare 28-year-old violinist Jeong-Gyan Hvya for surgery. She says that she is so unhappy with her face that almost a year suffering from insomnia.



6. Operation cheeks Jeong-Gyan Hvya in full swing

7. The mother of another member Chong Chi-Hai Lee Mi-Sook cries after seeing his daughter shortly after surgery. She secretly from the parents has applied for participation in the competition, so as not to disturb their



8. On the next day after surgery Chong Chi-Hai with his mother left the clinic and returned home. On the way to the station, she felt all the painful consequences of the operation.



9. Face Han Ji-Hai, two weeks after the operation. Though still swollen, her sunken cheeks pushed forward, her face made visually less



10. Two months after surgery Han Ji-Hai won the contest "Model of cosmetic surgery." She says that her low self-esteem has risen significantly after surgery, and that she really wants to fall in love.



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