Scary? You bet. We’ve all read about the plastic surgery disasters that lead to the sad outcomes pictured here. But New York magazine has a fascinating and often hilarious look at the new celebrity face, and why it looks so damn good: Demi’s, Madonna’s, and Angelina’s. Today’s top doctors, it turns out, don’t tighten the skin and overpump the lips, they add volume. Baby fat. Here’s the new surgeon-to-the-stars, David Rosenberg:
"What has transpired in the past ten years, says Rosenberg, is “further dissection of the deeper layers” for a face-lift that is almost entirely muscular. Rosenberg and surgeons like him go under the cheek-fat pad and disconnect the platysma, which is a sheet of muscle that supports the lower face, then they resuspend it higher with stitches under the skin.