In today’s highly competitive world and cutthroat corporate culture, it has become quite common for career women—and men for that matter—to enlist the services of a cosmetic surgeon to further their careers. And this trend exists not only in the United States or Europe; this also happens to be true for the men of the United Arab Emirates.

Gulf News tells us more:

Beauty may be only skin deep, but more men in the UAE are going under the knife to get ahead professionally.

Plastic surgeons here are reporting an increase in surgical and non-surgical procedures for men, which they attributed largely to their patients' career concerns in the competitive work environment here.

For a woman who has reportedly broken her nose no less than four times, it’s about time Shrek star Cameron Diaz did something about it. She’s having a nose job done.

Nbc5i.com gives us the details:

The actress has broken her nose four times, including most recently when she came face to face with her surfboard while celebrating her 31st birthday in Hawaii.

Diaz tells W magazine she started experiencing breathing problems: “I’m over it. I’m getting it fixed.”

According to the New York Post, Diaz was so impressed with Ashlee Simpson’s nose job; she decided to contact Simpson’s doctor and booked an appointment.

Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne have been married for almost 25 years, but they still claim to having a really healthy—make that red-hot—sex life. The Osbourne matriarch recently revealed in an interview with The Tonight Show host Jay Leno two reasons for this. One is her surgically enhanced breasts. The Sun gives us the goods:

Then Sharon, who admitted to spending £300,000 on cosmetic surgery, revealed her husband’s love for her boob job.

"We've been married nearly 25 years," she revealed. "The best thing I ever did was getting my bust implants. He loves them. He is like a newborn baby."

Must be the curry, because in this study India is conspicuously absent in most categories, only to appear – the cities of Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai -- among the top 5 searching for the term "man boobs."

And, observably not among the vainest of the lot -- Is it all about the desire to rid themselves of love handles and beer bellies acquired through overstaying in the pub, that the Irish emerged to have been eagerly searching the Internet information on cosmetic surgery?

The cosmetic surgery website, www.lipo.com published on October 30 a new study that posted the top five nations searching for information on cosmetic surgery: Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines, New Zealand – in that order.

Normally, cosmetic surgery procedures are done in the private clinics of cosmetic surgeons. And there are literally thousands of them across North America.

But CTV News reports that many public hospitals in Canada allow cosmetic surgery procedures such as breast augmentations and tummy tucks to be performed within its facilities. And however you look at it, this practice among some Canadian cosmetic surgeons effectively makes taxpayers subsidize the costs of cosmetic surgery.

Now here’s something you don’t read about everyday.

While millions of men and women all over the world would give anything just to be more beautiful than they already are, here’s a news item from China Daily telling of a young Chinese woman who went to a plastic surgeon and essentially asked that she be freed of the burden that is her “beautiful face”.

A young woman from Chongqing sought plastic surgery to make her face less attractive recently, after being crossed in love.

The 23-year-old woman's sweetheart left her weeks ago to stay with another woman. Although the two had been in love for six years, her ex-boyfriend feared that her too-beautiful face might lure many other men and thus he didn't feel safe staying with her.

Episode starts with Liz Cruz, McNamara/Troy's resident anesthesiologist, sitting in Christian and Sean's office getting a plastic surgery consultation. Christian and Sean, knowing that Liz was always a critic of those who opted for plastic surgery, ask her why she's having a change of heart. Liz says that after she had her kidney stolen and almost died, she basically wants to live life to the fullest and that includes looking good while doing it. She also mentions that she thinks her new girlfriend, Poppy (Alanis Morissette) will like the improvements, too. The boys are surprised because they didn't know Liz had a girlfriend, and also advice her not to go through with the surgery because of the health risks involved after the trauma she'd recently been through. She threatens to leave McNamara/Troy and go to a rival practice if they won't perform the surgery on her.

Had 'em lifted in Nashville -- because apparently, it helps that there is good music in the air to sooth the sting of stitches afterwards.

Nashville, aside from its rich music heritage, is attracting a new set of guests – those wanting and needing of the latest in nips and tucks. Not quite a cosmetic enhancement mecca of sort, but plastic surgery procedures performed here are boosting to noticeable figures to rival such favorite cosmetic surgery destinations as Southern California, South Florida or New York City.

Notably, Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center has pioneered the now famous "shallow" treatment tip to safely deliver monopolar radiofrequency energy to treat the delicate skin of the eyelids -- which is the thinnest skin on the body -- particularly the sagging and drooping eyelids. The technique is now hailed as the best alternative to Brow Lifting.

Wrinkles are not all to blame, so gladly give your wrinkles some thanks -- at least the laugh lines.

Sure facial wrinkles are telltale signs of ageing. That’s one. And in case you haven’t noticed it yourself, this new study is interesting: poor skin tone can add 10 to 12 years to a person’s actual or perceived age.

The journal Evolution and Human Behavior, in its new research revealed that women with blotchier skin tones appeared older while faces with more even skin tone were judged by others to be younger.

Several factors could alter a person's skin tone:

Cumulative ultraviolet from too much sun exposure can damage the blood vessels under the skin, which can create red areas, and can lead to freckles, moles and age spots. Natural aging can also cause a yellowing and dullness of skin color.

This episode starts with the return of Mrs. Grubman, Christian’s long time patient who suffered from a stroke during surgery two years prior. She has returned with her caretaker, Yvetta, after two years of constant rehabilitation and total isolation. Mrs. Grubman tells Christian that, even though her rehabilitation has been a long and hard-yet-successful struggle, she now has stage 4 lung cancer that has metastasized to nearly every part of her body and is living on borrowed time. She tells Christian that since she is dying, she wants to die looking beautiful and wants more plastic surgery so she can have a “coming out” party to celebrate her successful rehab. When Christian tells her he cannot perform any surgery on her under these circumstances, she says then she wants him to perform the surgery on her posthumously so that she looks fabulous at her funeral.