“I have plenty of friends who do stuff and if it makes you feel good, great. But I don’t think it’s the fix for some sort of unease that you’re having about who you are as a human being.

“I don’t think I need plastic surgery at this point. Can we just go day-by-day on that one?”

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In fact, women still account for 90 pc of cosmetic procedures undertaken with 2011 seeing 38,771 operations carried out compared to 34,413 in 2010, whilst 4,298 male cosmetic surgery operations were performed compared to the previous years’s 4,017.

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Although leg lengthening is not a new surgery, it has typically been used to help people who have limbs of unequal length or to help correct the medical condition dwarfism. However increasing numbers of people are now looking at leg lengthening surgery for cosmetic reasons.

The surgery is no breeze either – patients must be fit and healthy prior to the surgery and have strong bones. The operation itself usually lasts between 4 and 6 hours and patients although the average height gain is two and half inches, patients can gain up to 6 inches in height – although 4 inches is the maximum gain in a single operation.

The majority of patients undergoing the height-increasing cosmetic surgery are in their 20s and 30s. Around a third of these are women.

The operation itself sees a hole being drilled through the centre of the thigh bone from the top end. A surgical saw is then used to cut the bone in half at around the middle of the thigh. A telescopic rod is then inserted into the centre of the bone and secured using screws.

Once the incisions have been closed, each leg is turned inwards and outwards to lengthen the rod. The leg is elongated by 0.4 inches during the actual surgery and the patient must then click their own legs 15 times each way a day to give daily growth of 0.04 inches. This must be followed until the desired height is reached – however there are limits on the amount that the body can take and this will determine how long the patient will be able to lengthen their legs by.

Aside from the normal risks associated with invasive surgery, the daily clicking can cause pain and discomfort. This is because the muscles and the tendons need to stretch and adapt to their ‘new’ legs. Different patients will feel different levels of pain associated with the clicking procedure. There is also the danger that the bone will not heal properly or heal in an unusual shape that could see the bone become deformed.

The day after surgery, patients must start a rigorous exercise scheme that seems them beginning with cycling and stretching exercises. Initially, patients will have to walk with a frame however most will be able to walk with the aid of crutches about a fortnight to a month after surgery. The fittest patients will be able to walk normally after four months, although some patients may find their recovery time is a lot longer.

The bone itself will take around 8 months to fuse properly and it is at this point that most patients will be able to take up sports again. Around 18 months after the initial surgery, a second surgery takes place to remove the screws from the thigh bones.

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Stroma Medical, based in California, has patented a technique that uses a laser beam to change brown eyes to blue in a few weeks. Early trials have shown that patients brown irises changed colour to blue after being exposed to a targeted laser beam.

The cosmetic surgery is not yet available – further human tests are required to check the safety of the procedure and it is understood that some investment is still required to bring the product to market. It is hoped that the eye-colour changing surgery will be available in America in around 18 months time.

Dr Homer, the founder of Stroma Medical, has claimed that there is massive demand for the surgery and they comapny is receiving up to 300 enquiries a day. It is estimated that the surgery will cost around £3,000 to perform.

So how exactly does the iris-colour-changing technology work? The actual details remain a secret however it appears that the technology is similar to the lasers used to remove pigmentation from the skin.

A blue iris is not really blue – it is really an iris without colour and is a trick of perception, much the same as the sea which is not really blue; the ‘colour’ is down to scattered light. So by removing the pigment from a brown iris, the iris turns a blue colour.

Some experts are concerned over the long-term results of the surgery as it is unclear what damage or long-term side effects could be. The laser surgery is also irreverisble – there is currently no permanent way of changing blue eyes back to brown.

Although lasers are already used successfully for laser eye surgery, these lasers only affect the surface of the eye, the cornea. This new treatment to change the colour of the eyes appears to use lasers within the eye – and the more ‘inside’ the eye you go, the more potential damage can be done.

However Dr Homer has countered these concerns by saying that the laser will only target the pigment at the front of the iris and that there were no side-effects in the trial surgeries so far.

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For those who don’t want to go under the surgeon’s knife, non-surgical beauty treatments such as Botox, dermal fillers and teeth whitening are also popular gifts.

Part of the appeal is that the Christmas period is the ideal time to recover from a cosmetic procedure. Many are also asking for the procedures as they cannot justify splurging the cash on themselves over Christmas so are asking for their treatments as their main gift instead.

And it isn’t just women either – the number of men seeking cosmetic treatments has increased dramatically over the past few years and therefore it is no surprise that there are a good number of them who have requested some form of procedure as their Christmas present this year.

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The Bust Fix serum has alread been hailed as the ‘boob job in a tube’ and at it’s peak, was selling around 1,000 tubes a minute.

The bust serum contains mangosteen which is said to promote fatty acid production in breast tissue. This helps to enlarge the fat cells and therefore increase breast size.

Independent trials have so far proved interesting reading – out of 6,000 women who tested the product, around two-thirds said they saw an increase of around half a cup size after 12 weeks of using the Bust Fix serum; Almost a quarter said they went up by three-quarters of a cup size.

Dermatological scientists have said that after using the Bust Fix cream, lipogenesis (the production of fatty acids) was increased by 57 percent in five hours.

At £16.29 a tube, the bust enhancing cream is not cheap however in comparison to cosmetic surgery, it may be worth a try for anyone hoping to increase their boob cup size.

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The move has already been nicknamed ‘the boob tax’ and would see cosmetic procedure prices increase by 20 percent on procedures such as breast enlargements, liposuction and tummy tucks. At present, only minor treatments – such as Botox and chemical face peels – carried out in High Street Salons have been subject to VAT.

The only exception to the tax would be if the patient was having a cosmetic procedure for therapeutic reasons where a doctor or psychologist has identified that the patient has a medical condition (e.g. body dysmorphic disorder) or disfigurement.

Some cosmetic surgeons are worried that there will be grey areas when it comes to who has to pay VAT and who doesn’t. Some have questioned how easy it will be to distinguish between which procedures should be taxed and which shouldn’t. For example, should a child with really prominent ears who possibly could be bullied have the tax applied to their procedure? How large to breasts need to become before they are deemed to be a truly physical problem that can allow a treatment without the tax? What level of asymmetry would be deemed as a ‘disfigurement’?

A similar cosmetic surgery tax – which was nicknamed ‘Bo-tax’ – was introduced in the US by President Obama in 2009. However it was subsequently dropped after claims that it discriminated against patients who hailed from poorer backgrounds.

HMRC have claimed that the new tax is a change of policy – instead, they are saying that they are only clarifying the current situation which was set out in a 2007 document. A statement from HMRC reads, “there have been no changes to, nor are there any plans to change, the VAT liability of cosmetic services.

“Medical care provided by registered health professionals in hospitals or clinics is, and will continue to be, VAT-free, along with cosmetic services carried out for therapeutic purposes.

“Medical treatment for purely aesthetic reasons has been, and continues to be, liable to VAT at the standard rate.”

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Osbourne told chat show The Talk that she had to remove them after she discovered that her implants had been leaking. The tell-tale sign was that she woke up one morning and found that her breasts were lop-sided.

Osbourne also said that she had been thinking of having her breast implants removed for quite a while – joking that she was planning to make them into paperweights for her husband Ozzy – so as soon as she noticed there was something wrong with them, she immediately booked herself in to see a plastic surgeon.

The surgeon found that one of the implants was leaking, hence the lop-sided look, and the fluid had been leaking into the wall of Osbourne’s stomach. The implants were removed and Osbourne is now relieved as she didn’t want “to feel like she had a waterbed lying on her chest any more.”

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Breast reductions in the past require quite major surgery. Also know as reduction mammoplasties, the procedure usually involves fat, tissue and skin being removed from the breasts before they are reshaped and the nipples repositioned. This sort of surgery means that patients are often left with quite hefty scars and because a general anaesthetic is used, a three night stay in hospital plus six weeks of recovery time is usually required.

The results from a traditional breast reduction are not always great either – there can be scarring, uneven results, plus all the complications associated with major surgery including infection and blood clots. Many women also lose some or all of the feeling in and around their nipples and many lose the ability to breast-feed.

However microlipo offers appears to offer a better alternative for some women looking to have their breasts reduced. As the name suggests, microlipo is similar to liposuction. A thin metal tube – known as a cannula – is inserted into the fat layer below the skin via a small incision. This cannula has two purposes – to break up the fat cells and suck them out.

During the microlipo procedure the cheat area is first disinfected with an iodine solution before a small cannula is inserted into around eight to ten points around the chest, injecting a local anaesthetic each time. Once the breast area is numb, another cannula is inserted to suck out the fat.

It is claimed that microlipo can reduce the cup size of a patient by up to four sizes.

After the microlipo procedure, the patient must wear a compression garment over the breast area to help reduce swelling and assist with the healing process.

The benefits of the microlipo procedure are clear – less down time, no general anaesthetic and less scarring.

Unfortunately the microlipo procedure is not suitable for all women. Any women with a family history of breast cancer may not be eligible as any scarring in the breast tissue may trigger changes that increase the risk of breast cancer. Women who are overweight are normally asked to try and lose some weight naturally as the breasts should reduce as weight is lost – although this is usually assessed on a case by case basis as a breast reduction may help larger women exercise more easily and therefore help them lose weight more quickly.

Any women who has loose skin in and around the breast area will also be advised not to have the surgery as reducing the volume of the breasts will only exacerbate this look.

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Earlier this year, she strenuously denied comments that she had had breast enlargement surgery. Instead, she claimed that any enhancement was due to her wearing good bras.

However the 24 year old has now confirmed to Fitness magazine that she did have a boob job however she found her larger chest too painful and so decided to have the implants removed.

“Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don’t,” Morris said.

“It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn’t like being in pain – so they had to go!”

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