We Know Beauty Helps Baby Boomers Turn Back the Clock

It turns out you can blame your mom for your perceived cosmetic defects, especially if they include premature aging. That's the conclusion of a recent study published in the journal "Nature." For anyone, the passing years lead to the skin losing its elasticity and firmness, which may be the result of many things, including smoking or sun damage. However, even if you are one of the unlucky ones to inherit mom's premature aging genes, the top plastic surgeons at We Know Beauty can help you turn back the clock.

Many of our patients who want a facelift in Beverly Hills seek out We Know Beauty for cosmetic because they feel that their face has aged more quickly than their body. This may mean they have drooping jowls, furrowed lines in their forehead or uneven fat distribution of the face. While they may feel energetic and friendly, their face may look as though they're perpetually tired and unhappy. By combining our expert facelift with improvement of the eyes through Beverly Hills eyelid surgery, patients effectively look younger, well-rested and more approachable.

If you have considered ways to reverse premature aging, look to the board-certified plastic surgeons and medical professionals at We Know Beauty. We specialize in all forms of cosmetic surgery, and offer the best brow lifts, breast augmentation and rhinoplasty in Beverly Hills!

Evidence of Marilyn Monroe's Plastic Surgery serves as a Reminder of the Value of Aesthetic Beauty

At We Know Beauty, our board certified plastic surgeons are acclaimed throughout Southern California as the ideal option for those seeking truly exceptional aesthetic beauty in their lives. Whether our patients are seeking the precision necessary to achieve a perfect revision rhinoplasty or a stunning mommy makeover, We Know Beauty is always the premier option for world-class care.

Part of what makes our community of surgeons and medical specialists so effective is our appreciation and knowledge of the history of aesthetic beauty. Over the decades, standards and beauty norms have changed substantially. However, one fact remains abundantly clear: In the 20th Century, nobody embodied beauty like Marilyn Monroe.

For evidence of Marilyn's long shadow cast across the world of beauty, look no further than Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, where a physician's notes on Ms. Monroe and a set of X-rays are expected to go for $15,000 to $30,000 this November. Written by Hollywood plastic surgeon Michael Gurdin, the notes appear to confirm frequent speculation that Monroe underwent significant surgical cosmetic treatment.

"Nobody really though about Marilyn Monroe having plastic surgery", says Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien's Auctions. "They thought she was such a natural beauty, they didn't want to believe."

Of course, at We Know Beauty, we understand that Marilyn was a natural beauty ~ and that cosmetic surgery to enhance that beauty can be a fantastic way to raise self-confidence and achieve one's own personal aesthetic goals. While there will only ever be one Marilyn Monroe, women and men around the globe can count on the world's best plastic surgeons at We Know Beauty to help them to embrace natural beauty in their own lives. 

The Desire for Beauty

It's sort of obvious that the very best plastic surgeons are in the beauty business. It's a good business to be in as the demand for more beauty never seems to fade. However, it was a story from North Korea that revealed a sort of black market in cosmetic surgery that really made us think. It seems that the human desire for beauty is very persistent indeed.

The piece that got us thinking is the latest installment of a regular feature at Business Insider, in which they ask a North Korean resident about some aspect of life in that notoriously oppressive and impoverished country. The woman they spoke to this week told of regular inspections in her school to see if anyone had obtained a procedure popular in Korea known as double-eyelid surgery.

These operations, alas, are not delivered by the highly skilled equivalent of American board certified plastic surgeons you would likely find in neighboring South Korea. In fact, they are very inexpensive -- the equivalent of a few dollars -- even as the ultra-hardline communist government looks askance at them as symbols of capitalist wealth. Being caught with one of these surgeries has been known to result in incarceration in a forced labor camp.

While here in the U.S., we are used to stunning plastic surgery before and after pictures, it's kind of moving that people are willing to risk jailing by one of the world's most brutal regimes in order to look just a little bit more beautiful to themselves. You can do very bad things to a people, but you'll never dampen the desire for beauty. There's something beautiful about that.

Speaking of beauty, if you think you can benefit from a cosmetic procedure, give us a call at 310-300-1500.

Is Lindsay Lohan's Half Sister Missing the Point?

This week, Ashley Horn, the 18-year-old half-sister of Lindsay Lohan, spoke out on the shocking reasons for her recent plastic surgery. Stating that her "goal was to look like Lindsay in her good days," Ms. Horn spent about $25,000 on a slew of procedures, including rhinoplasty, fat injections to the face, and "refinement underneath [her] cheeks and jawline."

Here at We Know Beauty, medical network featuring some of the best plastic surgeons in Southern California, truly believe in the power in feeling great about your looks and beauty. However, we do believe that an expert surgeon should never perform plastic surgery to make a patient look like somebody else. A cosmetic surgery should ultimately respect a person's inherent beauty, maintaining a patient's overall symmetry and proportion.

This is why many people come to We Know Beauty for revision rhinoplasty; they were given a one-size-fits-all nose job, perhaps inspired by a certain celebrity, and it ended up not fitting well with their facial structure. In these cases, the expert surgical team at We Know Beauty will get to work on a secondary (sometimes tertiary) rhinoplasty procedure that will get their patients the results they originally wanted.

Of course, it's perfectly fine to want aspects of a celebrity's body, like a nose you like or the toned arms of a celebrity like Jennifer Aniston. We Know Beauty finds the perfect middle ground between the part of your physique you don't like and a carbon copy of a celebrity's body part that might night fit yours. After all, gummy bear breast implants and fat transfer to buttocks procedures can help you get closer to the Kim Kardashian or J-Lo body you want, but ultimately should fit your existing physique.

Give We Know Beauty a call at 310-300-1500 for a complimentary consultation to learn more.

Here She Comes

When Indian-American medical student to-be Nina Davuluri won the iconic Miss America beauty pageant last Sunday night, a lot of attention was focused on some truly repellent racist tweets issued by, well, repellent racist twits. As unfortunate as that sort of thing is, the shocked reaction to the ignorant bigotry aimed at Ms. Davuluri points to the fact that the face of beauty has permanently changed in a country that -- for the most part, anyway -- is embracing its own diversity. In fact, some observers have pointed out that America appears to be more embracing of uniquely Indian facial features than India is, where beauty standards can be surprisingly Western-influenced.

As board certified plastic surgeons, patients are often ambivalent about changing certain characteristics that may, in their view, be associated with their own ethnicity. Certainly, the popularity of ethnic rhinoplasty, which seeks to improve the appearance of the nose without attempting to erase a patient's ethnic character, has been a key indicator. After all, not so long ago, the standards of beauty were pretty clearly set by people of Anglo-Saxon ancestry. As every fairy tale/Walt Disney fan knows, it was when Snow White was deemed "the fairest of them all" that the Evil Queen became so jealous.

We're happy to say that, today, beauty has a whole new complexion and a great plastic surgery before and after picture of a nose job or eyelid lift can vary a lot depending on the ancestry of the patient. One factor that, we'll all agree, separates the very best plastic surgeons like our amazing doctors at We Know Beauty from others is the ability to understand that beauty runs all kinds of gamuts.

If you think now it might be time to have the very best plastic surgeons in town bring out the best in you, you just might want to call We Know Beauty at 310-300-1500 or visit us www.weknowbeauty.com.

Plastic Surgery in the News: Friday the 13th Edition

We've all heard that the strangest things happen on Friday the 13th, and this news story that just came out is just that: strange!

A New York Fashion Week show presented "Faces of Fashion," which offered Dr. Ramtin Kassir, a tri-state area plastic surgeon, the opportunity to show off his patients. Instead of fashion models walking down the runway, Dr. Kassir's patients took to the catwalk to display the outcomes of their cosmetic procedures. While these "models" walked down the runway, before and after photos flashed on a background screen. Here at We Know Beauty, we consider fashion shows more adept at showcasing, well, fashion...not the place where prospective patients should go to choose if they'd like rhinoplasty or perhaps an eye lift.

At We Know Beauty, we don't pull any gimmicks to get new patients. We focus on hiring the best plastic surgeons who are not only highly-skilled surgeons, but have a flair for artistry to achieve the best patient outcomes. Our board certified plastic surgeons take patient safety as priority #1, while we help patients enhance their natural beauty. Not to mention, all services provided at We Know Beauty are carried out with complete privacy and discretion, as well, so there will never be a parade of We Know Beauty patients!

Surgical Concierges from We Know Beauty Let You Focus on Your Recovery

We Know Beauty isn't just a home for the top plastic surgeons in Southern California; it's also the place to go for luxury service. Cosmetic surgery is meant to improve your quality of life; there's no reason why the process can't be as accommodating and comfortable as absolutely possible. This is why, at We Know Beauty, every client is set up with a surgical concierge for 24/7 support.

Your surgical concierge from We Know Beauty handles every step of the process starting at your initial consultation. Whatever is requested, whether it's handling payment and insurance issues, transportation, and a stay at post-surgical spa facility, the concierge can handle. Most importantly, this concierge is a valuable resource during your recovery period, setting you up with a detailed recovery kit and always being on hand to answer any questions you may have as soon as they arise. This means that you get to focus on your recovery, minimizing stress and distractions that can take you away from healing.

Of course, it doesn't matter how easy the process is if the results aren't spectacular. You have nothing to worry about in that regard at We Know Beauty; peruse our gallery of plastic surgery before and after photos and read our many testimonials. Our surgeons are changing lives for the better and we can do the same for you.

Give We Know Beauty a call at 310-300-1500 to schedule a complimentary consultation where you can learn more about our surgical concierge services.