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Try-Before-You-Buy Plastic Surgery, Thanks to LiftMagic Site

by Christine Whitney on June 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM



In Kim Ki Duk's 'Time,' one of our fave movies ever, a cute girl leaves her boyfriend and goes to a plastic surgeon to rearrange her face, then tries to make her boyfriend fall in love with her as someone completely different.

The plastic surgeon in the film has this rad computer program where he takes a photo of the girl's face and then shows her how she'll look after the surgery. And now, a similar program is available, and not just in artsy Korean movies.

On the 'Lift Magic' Web site (also a Facebook application), run by the Modiface company, plastic surgery hopefuls and bored civilians can upload pictures of their faces and get a virtual surgery on the spot. The site offers 14 different treatments from face lifts to nose jobs, which you can try for free without the pains of surgery and gross facial bruising.

Lift Magic is intended as a tool to help assuage the fears of plastic surgery candidates, but has also become a Facebook pastime for bored Internet trollers. Though broadcasting pictures of how much hotter you could look after cosmetic surgery to all your friends on Facebook might fall into the don't category. We're just saying....[Source: Lift Magic, via Telegraph UK]

Tags: facebook, medicine, plastic surgery

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