Beauty Colosseum
Last night FTV aired another special in its series of “Beauty Colosseum” cosmetic surgery showcase series (ビューティー・コロシアム’06史上最大最高大激変SP). It’s similar to the plastic surgery shows that they have in America, in which contestants send in tapes showing how god-damned ugly they are and beg for the TV program to pay for a fancy surgical makeover, only “Beauty Colloseum” has more Japanese-style pizazz. Here’s an example:
I am so fat and ugly! I need your help!
Somebody put a picture of a squid beside this fatty so we can see how she’s all wide and fat like a squid!
Now let’s look at her 1 year later (after a crack team of cosmetic surgeons, hair stylists, and makeup experts were finished with her)
When she stands next to the image of herself one year before, you can see that she’s much better looking. How much did it cost?
Her transformation cost 4,610,000 yen!!! (about $39,500 !!) The show’s host, Akiko Wada, is shocked!
Let’s look at a couple other cases from last night’s program:
This woman had a face that not even a mother could love (her mother abandoned her when she was in elementary school).
After a year of work, the celebrity panelists are amazed at how much better she looks! Let’s see:
She lost some weight, and her teeth aren’t so hideous.
It only cost 1.75 million yen! (About $15,000) Afterwards, she was reunited with her mother and seemed happy.
Finally we have this girl. She was so ugly that her boss told her to sit in a corner so he wouldn’t have to look at her face. Now that 2.51 million yen ($21,500) has been spent to make her look better, she’ll be treated like a human being at work! Fantastic, isn’t it?
