Only in the west, it appears, do we admire single-eyelidded, flat-faced models like Lu Yan, whose popularity in Europe is considered bewildering and a bit annoying by Chinese women....Yeah, it's silly, but what about boob jobs here in the West? Anyway, here's a couple of pictures of Lu Yan 吕燕. She cleans up OK:
"You can see the difference between westerners and Chinese people - our faces are much flatter," explains Lillian Chung, the exquisitely made-up editor of Orange, a beauty magazine which came to China from Taiwan three years ago. "They want to improve this." She adds that big eyes have been popular in China "for centuries". The most popular adjustments are now the creation of double eyelids (which cost between 1,200 and 3,000 yuan, or £78-£195), and augmentation to create a higher, more western-style nose (up to 10,000 yuan, £650, depending on the implant quality). Rosebud-like Chinese mouths are still being left alone...
The cheery perversity of these patients, as they grope in and out of surgeries for their operations, wads of dressing pressed to their faces, either indifferent or oblivious to the stories of botched noses and infected eyelids, cannot but invite comparisons to earlier generations of Chinese women, who squashed their feet to get husbands. Now they inflate their noses to get jobs. At least, I suppose, the nose jobs are reversible.
But for once I've got to agree with the Chinese；she's really not very good-looking:
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