It was all smiles when Caprice walked into that plastic surgery clinic in Malibu. She was determined to pay the price to look decades younger: this could finally give her back the confidence she had lost when she hit 30. Unfortunately, the surgery went wrong and not only she was left with a rabbit face but she will be paralysed for the rest of her life.

Caprice, who makes an average salary as a flight attendant, took out a £10.000 loan

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to pay for the celebrity anti-aging ‘miracle’ she craved. She is yet another victim of beauty clinics that promise their customers more than they can possibly achieve.

What used to be the prerogative of catwalk models, call girls, glamour models and celebrities is today a widespread obsession around the world. 

Both sexes, but especially women, constantly obsess about their appearance. Whether big-boned, thin or fat, tall or short, or stuck with a nose, lips or boobs you wish to trade for another size, plastic surgery and the use of other dangerous practices – not to mention chemicals – are not always the best solution. Those wanting to keep young looking skin and a youthful appearance should also consider natural and safer alternatives.

From the age of 25, wrinkles, cellulite, skin dryness, hair and nail-matting appear because our bodies lose the ability to rebuild natural collagen. The inevitable aging process begins, leaving us anxious and insecure about our appearances.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “beauty” as a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, which pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight, or a combination of qualities that pleases the intellect.

According to statistics, the average American husband spends 32 minutes in a typical day bathing, dressing and grooming, while his married female counterpart spends 44 minutes.

According to the UK based Professional…

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kin tones.

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In Senegal, West Africa, the lengths to which women will go to achieve a light skin tone is beyond belief. There is a common practice which consists of getting rid of skin melanin pigment overnight by applying domestic bleach all over one’s body, wrapping it up with film paper…

Studies done in South Africa in…

Melanin pigment must be preserved as a biological shield. The Bridge MAG image

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Rachel Tcheungna, Author, Writer of 

The Bridge Books and 

The Bridge Magazine Editor.