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From ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2007):

Women are more likely to persist with using creams, supplements and plastic surgery to look younger if they feel these are not yet working, new research says.

A study of 297 women aged from 27 to 65 years found that they were more motivated to persist with special diets, vitamins, creams, Botox or plastic surgery if they believed these had so far failed to make them look significantly younger. The researchers, Professor Brett Martin and Dr Rana Sobh, found that women who used these means to look younger were trying to avoid a 'feared self' -- an image of themselves they had of appearing wrinkled and old. They have found that when women want to avoid this feared self, they kept trying if they perceive themselves to be failing, but as soon as they began to succeed their anxiety lessened and they stopped trying. Professor Martin, of the University of Bath, UK, and Dr Sobh, of Qatar University, found that of those women who felt that the treatments they were taking were not working, 73 per cent wanted to continue using them. Among those women who felt the treatments were working, only 45 per cent wanted to continue.

Alex Kuczynski's story appears on this website about Beverly Hills plastic surgery:

Surely, a backlash against the artificial beauties will erupt. Not a chance, Dr. Teitelbaum said. Surgical work, when well done, is now subtle. "Most people aren't getting those bad face lifts anymore, where the eyes, lips and cheeks are distorted," he said. "If everyone getting plastic surgery looked like that, there would be a backlash." The aesthetically altered future would surely flummox Darwin. One New York surgeon, Dr. Michelle Copeland, suggested that cosmetically altered couplings could create some surprises. Say a man with a big nose and receding chin has a nose job and a chin implant. With his new profile he manages to marry a beautiful woman, who, by the by, had already had her ears pinned back, her sleepy-looking eyes lifted and her thin lips augmented. Their child might well be a surprise package with the big nose, the Dumbo ears, receding chin, saggy lids and thin lips. "Well, then the child will simply have to start doing all the things his or her parents did," Dr. Copeland said with a sigh. "I've already seen it happen.”