Two Shanghai-based cosmetics practitioners were both charged for conducting illegal cosmetic beauty treatments.

The two did not know each other, reports Thepaper.cn. However, both of them offered similar treatments and services, which included injections and micro-surgery, at very high prices.

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One of them is a man named Nie, who operated an underground plastic surgery clinic. He reportedly opened the clinic after receiving only four days of plastic surgery training in a Shenzhen hotel room.

He was reportedly arrested by prosecutors in Shanghai Minhang District selling fake medications.

The other, a woman named Yang, started to offer plastic surgery services after she saw the possible profits that it promised. Even without the proper qualifications for the trade, she offered her services from her manicure salon.

Aside from the advertisements that Yang put up in her manicure salon, she also managed a public WeChat account and was able to attract more customers, two of which suffered from allergic reactions following their treatments.

Yang was also arrested and charged by the Minhang District prosecutors.

Plastic Surgery Phenomenon

This report is timely with the surge in the demand for beauty and cosmetic enhancements. According to a report seen in WomenOfChina.cn, statistics released by the Chinese Association of Plastics and Aesthetics in November showed that China's plastic surgery industry is currently expriencing a boom with an annual growth of 30 percent over the past three to five years.

By 2019, the Chinese market is expected to surpass both the United States and Brazil and become the third-largest of plastic surgery clients.

Experts, such as Shanghai Ximei Medical Cosmetic Clinic doctor Zhang Xiaofei, say that now, there are more younger clients looking to have some form of cosmetic enhancement, either by surgical or non-surgical methods.

Tian Hong, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, however, doesn't totally support the growing fad.

 "But this isn't the only way to attain beauty,” Tian says. “Young people shouldn't pin their hopes on cosmetic surgery."

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