Thursday, October 25, 2012

Biases on beauty draw Thais to illegal surgery

In this Oct. 17, 2012 photo, a 32-year-old Thai woman, Nisakron Boonpun gets a Botox injection at Bangkok's Yanhee Hospital, which houses one of the country’s best-known and largest beauty clinics. Bangkok has more than 500 licensed beauty clinics that cater to the wealthy but is also full of illegal, back-alley beauticians who are attracting young and working-class customers with rock-bottom prices. The recent case of a 33-year-old aspiring model who died from a botched collagen injection has drawn attention to the dark side of a booming beauty industry in Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Her dream was to look less Thai and more like Jennifer Lopez, so the 25-year-old street food vendor went to the Internet and typed in "cheap Botox."


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