
More often than not, the loud music you’re hearing each evening on Shanghai’s streets comes form a hair salon. Beyond the music
fashionable bouffant-ed staff, style, manicure and trim local and expatriate alike. Of course, this flurry of hair, shampoo, peroxide and moisturizer is not the only source of beautification. Expat magazines, subway car walls, ShanghaiExpat itself, are littered with advertisements for the latest non-surgical and surgical cosmetic surgeries offered by a variety of clinics and hospitals throughout the city. Despite personal judgments or opinions this is a very real way an increasing number of men and women seek to maintain or enhance their perceived beauty. So what does the world of cosmetic surgery in Shanghai look like?