he obsession with beauty in Colombia has put this country on the podium of cosmetic surgery, with more than seven hundred surgeons and the development of an industry that attracts Europeans, Americans and other Latin American countries.
And that is the cult of beauty does not understand gender, race or social strata in the country with the largest number of beauty contests and whose women have reached the semifinal or final of Miss Universe in twenty-one occasions.
The aesthetic value of an operation in Colombia is between 20 and 80 per cent cheaper than in other countries, but many local travel agencies include: airfare, lodging and guided tours through various typical places of the country.
The Colombian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic (SCCP) has more than seven hundred specialists in prestige each year over ten thousand interventions in the field of aesthetics, a figure that has grown over the last decade a six per cent.
One of the founders of this group, Dr Philip Coiffman says: “One reason that exists for this` boom ‘that is going cosmetic surgery is that the higher the cultural level, social and economic development of a country or a people, the greater the sense of self-esteem of the person. ”
The most common cosmetic operations that are performed in operating rooms are Colombians, for men: on the scalp grafts and liposuction, and for women, eyelids, nose and sinuses.
Another curious fact is that increasingly more quinceañeras come to the consultations of aesthetics, many of them hopeful that two bags of silicone serum or incorporated into their hearts, enabling them to rapidly achieve a more prosperous life.
This reflected the reality of the Colombian writer and journalist Gustavo Bolivar in his novels and short fiction series “Sin tetas no paradise.” In the plot of the novel shows how the teenage social advancement easy pursuing an arm or traqueto a drug trafficker, who dazzles in return for the services of his body.
To do this, sometimes the young people a new sculpt anatomy in the operating room, using the fees set by their predecessors: large breasts, narrow waists and not one ounce of fat.