Three candidates hope to win contest for 100,000 yuan of cosmetic surgery
A cosmetic surgery clinic in Wuhan is offering a man the chance to win a free surgical makeover in an effort to prove that the quest for the body beautiful is not just a woman's pursuit.
Yu Xinrui, deputy director of the Wuhan Zhongao Plastic Surgery Hospital, said the clinic was in negotiations with three potential candidates.
The trio - two entertainers and a Wuhan university student - are competing for a 100,000 yuan, six-month package of treatment that includes liposuction, nose reshaping, height enhancement and face reshaping.
The clinic hopes the surgery will attract the same kind of media attention which surrounded that of Beijing's 'ugly duckling', 24-year-old Hao Lulu, who very publicly spent nearly 200 days and 300,000 yuan undergoing 10 cosmetic surgery procedures, including alterations to her breasts, navel and eyelids.
Although most undergoing cosmetic surgery on the mainland are women, increasing numbers of men are also choosing to go under the knife in the belief that it is impossible to get ahead without the right look.
Chengdu hairdresser Wan Le is one of them. He approached a local clinic with a wad of cash and a request that surgeons make him look like Hong Kong singer Nicholas Tse Ting-fung.
