Unusual Beauty Craze Has Thai Women Shaping Their Lips Like Buffalo

Chamnong claims to have turned down thousands of requests for krachap lips over the last five years, and even doubled the price of the surgery to deter women from going through with it. But the requests keep coming, and if they can’t have the procedure at his clinic, they just seek out other doctors.

Dr. Pusit Jittilaongwong admits that krachap lip surgeries make up 90% of his business, even though he has the most expensive prices for the procedure in the country – 30,000 baht per lip, or 55,000 for both. About 70% of his clients are women.

Beauty crazes are usually global or popular in a certain area of the world, but they are rarely reserved to a single country. But the krachap lips procedure is reportedly only popular in Thailand.

“Whenever I attend international conferences, no one mentions lip contouring or the krachap lip, this is a Thai thing,” Dr. Chamnong said.

The popularity of this unusual cosmetic surgery in Thailand may be connected to the generally superstitious nature of its people. Several plastic surgeons have confirmed that many of those who ask for this procedure believe that it will bring them fame and fortune, and apparently the media is to blame for that as well.

“Some newspapers publish articles on how the krachap lip reduction may lead to good fortune, when in fact no one can confirm whether or not that is true,” said Adunchai Thammasangsert, a plastic surgeon who wrote an article on the dangers of lip reduction procedures.

“The fact is that Thais easily follow a trend and are superstitious, while clinics are getting richer. The large amount of internet reviews of the krachap lip is kind of a hypnosis in itself; making people believe that this type of lip shape is beautiful and others aren’t,” he added.

Plastic surgery internet forum Dungdong is full of horror stories about the krachap lip. People often end up with crooked smiles, develop keloid, painful scar tissues caused by surgery, or are left unable to close their mouth properly. Many of them are forced to go under the knife again to correct these defects, but plastic surgeons warn that a lip that has been thinned out too much will never be perfectly reconstructed.

Getting a botched up krachap lip corrected is an expensive affair, because the procedure is a complicated one that involves using tissue from the inside of the mouth. Some defects are impossible to correct, and desperate users left with a permanently open mouth have written about taking their own lives out of desperation.

Dr. Adunchai says that many Asians don’t have big upper lips to begin with but still request reductions. And instead of measuring the lip when assessing a patient, some surgeons bypass this part and just take the person’s money, often leaving them disfigured.

He adds that he tries to discourage women who come to him for krachap lips by telling them that “a beautiful mouth is one that can close”.

>>135646
Sorry to be "that guy", but this isn't exactly news, It's fascinating and all, but still, it probably belongs on >>>/fa/ or some other board. Odditycentral really isn't a valid source of news.

>>135661
Have this link instead anon
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/1072688/

>>135662
I appreciate that very much, Anon, thank you. I guess it's a slow news day in Bangkok. lol

Jesus Christ those pics on that page are frightening.

>>135668
No problem I understand that you are trying to make /news/ a less shitty board keep up the good work!

LOoks pretty hot, I will have to try one on for size this winter.
Will report back how it feels

I wonder if a BJ feels any different?

>>135646
At least theyre not taking the bogpill

Interesting, but after jawbone shaving I'm not too shocked by something like this. That kind of mouth is usually called a Cupid's bow here for what it's worth

>>135646
My lips naturally look like that but with a less pronounced middle bit. Not sure how to feel about this.

>>135646
So they reshape to look like the typical clip art looking lips shame. Don't Care, not like it is a dangerous fad just wasteful

>>135646
>A bizarre beauty craze has been sweeping Thailand for the last 5 years, with women spending thousands of dollars to have their upper lip reshaped as buffalo horns.

Clearly the patriarchy is to blame, for mind-controlling women into doing this stuff wholly against their will....

Looks like they were trying to do that curly-mouth thing from my chinese cartoons.

Doesn't translate to RL very well.

>>135798
>This just in: Bogdanoff sightings rapidly increasing in Thailand following an increase in expensive plastic surgery.

>>135824
>but after jawbone shaving I'm not too shocked by something like this
This. Compared to that, everything else seems tame, including a little lip reshaping.

>>135862
>is to blame

Fair enough, but that doesn't mean it's a social problem that is worth addressing.

If you support at least looking into some aspects of the male rights movement, you'd notice that the extraordinarily high workplace casualty rate in many male-dominated jobs compared to mixed-sex jobs is in part due to both supervisors and workers expecting, tolerating, and embracing physical risk, even when safer approaches are available (like way more protective gear and spotting for seemingly simple tasks). If MRA were serious and not simply a circle-jerk, they'd be pushing for more research and standards in high-risk workplace behavior. Sociologists have their shit together on womens issues because they actually study the social phenomena of cosmetic surgery in Asia, yet MRA in 30 years has utterly failed to even try to get similar levels of academic interest in high-risk male behavior -- instead MRAs just try to insult anybody taking interest in the female side.

>>136055
what are you talking about
there has been a ton of effort into increased workplace safety, which had nothing to do with mras or anything.