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Welcome to Your Facelift
What to Expect Before, During, and After Cosmetic Surgery
by Helen Bransford
ISBN: 0385485492
ISBN-13: 9780385485494
Format: Hardcover
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"[This] book is the adult equivalent of those soothing books which parents give to children before they go to the hospital, explaining what to take along (Teddy, toothbrush-or, in Bransford's case, sunglasses credit cards) and what to expect when they get there."
-- New Yorker
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Published date: 1997 Edition: 1th edition Size: 5.5 x 7.75 inches Weight: 0.6 pounds Pages: 190
Publisher's Notes
Open, honest, straightforward, and entertaining are not the words one generally associates with writing about cosmetic surgery, but they are exactly the qualities that make Helen Bransfords Welcome to Your Facelift unique. At the age of 47, and married to a man (writer Jay McInerny) seven years her junior, she decided it was time to recapture that face she no longer saw when looking in the mirror. Her surgery involved a "touch of lipo" under the chin, a forehead peel, an upper eyelid tuck, dermabrasion under the eyes, and a standard lift, and she chronicles it all-with sage advice from the veteran to the uninitiated-from initial decision to that moment, a month after the event, when she was "dead certain" shed done the right thing. For those who dont know anyone whos been through it, Helen Bransford will be that best friend who tells you what it's really like and what you should do to prepare.To augment her own story, Helen has interviewed doctors and other patients, adding their expertise and experiences to her own. She has researched every procedure from the most common eye lift to state-of-the-art ultrasonic liposuction, and she reports from the cosmetic surgery trenches with authority, understanding, and above all the awareness that "the entire exercise deals with the superficial, so you should consider no detail too trite."
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Welcome to Your Facelift
Bransford, Helen
Doubleday. Hardcover. 0385485492 A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 1997 Doubleday Hard Cover . Very Good. 1997. ( more information)
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Doubleday. Hardcover. 0385485492 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 1997 Doubleday Hard Cover . Very Good. 1997. ( more information)
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Welcome to Your Facelift: What to Expect Before, During and After Cosmetic Surgery
Bransford, Helen
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 190 pp. Bransford takes you through the procedures of face lifts, telling you what it is really like, based on her own experience and extensive interviews with doctors, nurses, dermatologists, and other patients.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ( more information)
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Welcome to Your Facelift
Helen Bransford
Doubleday, 1997-05-19. Hardcover. Very clean and readable. Very clean and readable. Some cover wear. Ex library. ( more information)
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Bransford, Helen
Doubleday, 1997. 190pp. At 47 Vogue writer "bought the package", from lipo to dermabrasion to eyelid tucks and the standard facelift, and here she takes the reader through all the "wrinkles" of cosmetic surgery from the decision to "do it" through the entire procedure to the happy result...also interviews doctors, nurses, dermatologists and other patients who've been there and done that. Very clean book, fun read . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Price Intact. ( more information)
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