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For those of us who live in the Northeast, summertime gives us the longawaited opportunity to enjoy all that the outdoors has to offer. We can spend hours under the sun with friends and family in our favorite parks and outdoor cafés. We look forward to weekends packed with outdoor activities, or just lounging around outside. Unfortunately all of this added exposure to the sun may come at a price. Ultraviolet (UV) rays damage the skin’s makeup and irreversible harm can be inflicted on the skin’s DNA, leading to the weathered, wrinkled faces we all fear.

Being male in today’s world, and workplace, may not be the way your father remembers it. Today Americans are more interested in aging gracefully then a generation ago. People are concerned about looking good from their 40’s on into their 70’s. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of male cosmetic surgeries and procedures. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) conducted a study looking at trends among Americans. The results are eye opening. Americans spent almost $10.7 billion dollars on cosmetic procedures in 2010.

What is beauty isn’t a question that most of us think about; we just know it when we see it. A “young” face, a “fit” body, these are words we use to describe beauty, but what do they really mean?

The term” Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” attempts to sum up the idea that, what one person finds attractive, another may not.

Well after several months of having this blog I’ve often asked myself what I should I write about.  The problem is that it’s much easier for me to figure out what not to write about when I surf the Internet for ideas.  For instance,  I will not write about celebrity body parts and what seems to have gotten bigger or smaller on the cover of the tabloids.  I will not write about areas that I know nothing about, and I will not write in a way that glorifies Plastic Surgery to be more than it is.

Plastic Surgery means many different things to different people.  S