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Aussies Spend $7 Million on Beauty

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This year, Australians have spent nearly $7 million on hair, beauty and cosmetic surgery. The most requested procedure at cosmetic surgery clinics was Botox.

STROLL down a trendy cafe strip in any Australian capital city and the bevy of beautiful people to be seen there might suggest we are a vain bunch.

And now new market research reveals we are spending up big to look that way.

Whether it’s doing the best with what you’ve got, with haircuts, beauty treatments or personal fitness training; or undergoing more serious cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery, the investment to looking good is increasing.

Hair and beauty businesses receive the bulk of the spend, but our appetite for cosmetic procedures is insatiable and growing at a fast rate, up 25 per cent last year alone.

Despite cautious consumer spending overall, business information analysts at IBISWorld expect Australians will spend $6.99 billion in 2011-12 on their personal appearance.

That’s more than $313 per person, an increase of 18.8 per cent from the $5.88 billion spent in 2010-11, according to IBISWorld’s research.

While some Australians got by with just a haircut, IBISWorld Australia general manager Karen Dobie said many older women in particular had weekly rituals such as facials, hair removal… continue reading

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Only 20% of Breast Cancer Patients Get Reconstruction in UK

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In the UK, only around one in five women who have had mastectomies will
get breast reconstruction. Who is able to receive the surgery is based on local
provision, making it a postcode lottery.

There is a “postcode lottery” of access to the procedures, according to
the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons
(BAPRAS), with rates as low as nine per cent in some areas of England.

In others, almost half (43 per cent) get them. Nationally, of the
15,500 women who had mastectomies last year, just 21 per cent had
reconstruction, found an official audit.

Tim Goodacre, president of the association, said: “Unfortunately, services
in England are very much determined by local provision. It is very patchy.
It’s very much the case that there’s a postcode lottery.”

Breast reconstruction had historically been put on “the back burner”
when planning breast cancer surgery, he explained, adding: “In some
areas, there’s just not enough surgeons around.”

At its winter conference today (Wednesday), BAPRAS is calling for
patients to have greater access to plastic surgeons, who can offer different
techniques of breast reconstruction.

Mr Goodacre, a consultant plastic surgeon, said reconstruction could
make an enormous difference… continue reading

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