Patients warned against cosmetic surgery ‘tourism’
Poll reports surge in number of people suffering post-op complications on their return home in past 18 months
Retro guide books show modern women the lost wisdom of being a lady
Being cheap doesn't mean being unladylike, according to a new market in nostalgic self-help manuals
Now you see it, now you don’t
Pictures of models and celebrities are routinely altered to rid them of every 'flaw'. So much so, that when a woman with a tummy appeared in a US fashion magazine it attracted global attention. Could the airbrushers' days finally be numbered?
Kate Moss deserves a picture postcard, instead of the bitter glare of Heat
Libby Brooks: My collection of cards depicting the Edwardian star Gabrielle Ray evoke an age that held a very different idea of beauty
Eternal youth is an ugly obsession
Rebecca Seal: The west's ageing population has a choice - to accept the ageing process and get on with something more interesting, or to obsess about how to look younger
Barton’s Britain: Liverpool, home of the tanning salon
Laura Barton: In the sunbed capital of Britain, the sharp increase in skin cancer rates feels almost irrelevant. Here, the tan is still king
What I see in the mirror
Brian Paddick on holding on to his hair and being shown up by Simon Webbe
The price of beauty
Photographer Zed Nelson spent five years in 17 countries discovering how far people will go in their quest for physical perfection
Botox injections for sale on the internet
Which? Computer survey finds potentially lethal 'cosmetic enhancement' products including Botox and Melanotan readily available online
Health threat from beauty parlours
Poorly trained beauticians can inflict skin infections, facial paralysis or scalp burns