Aesthetic surgery on your mobile phone: simulators to the rescue!

On the web of webs—Internet, of course—there is a proliferation of so-called virtual try-ons for hairstyles, makeup, clothes… and even the occasional plastic surgery simulator with which to simulate cosmetic surgery touch-ups.

Yes, you read that right: if you’re thinking about getting a touch-up, before going under the knife, even before going to the surgeon’s consultation, you can assess the different possibilities on your computer, your tablet, or even your mobile phone.

The virtual try-on for aesthetic touch-ups lets you get an idea of how you could look after getting liposuction, a breast augmentation, or a rhinoplasty, for example. All procedures in one! A rhinoplasty simulator, breast surgery, and liposuction on your mobile.

This Plastic Surgery Simulator for iPod, iPhone, and iPad is a good example of a surgery simulator. It is a powerful and simple app that allows you to modify photos to simulate the results of plastic surgeries on anyone’s body and face. It’s easy to use—you can modify photos to simulate plastic surgeries in seconds. The Plastic Surgery Simulator app gives more details about how it works on the official website: “You can import images from the device’s photo library, from memory (useful for copying and pasting images from the web), and from the built-in camera. On the next screen, the crop screen, you can resize the highlighted area to select only the portion of the image you want to work on, or simply select the entire image. You can switch between single and dual view by rotating your device. Single view will show you the original image or the modified image you are working on. Dual view will show you both on the same screen.”

For many users, this plastic surgery simulator app may simply be a fun game, but for many others, seeing on their mobile screen what their face would look like after a rhinoplasty can be the push they needed to finally decide to go to a clinic and undergo that cosmetic surgery procedure.

Had you ever thought you could use a breast augmentation simulator? You can see what your before and after a breast surgery would look like before stepping into the operating room.

And that’s not all. Virtual communities have been created that invite users to share the resulting images from the plastic surgery simulator touch-ups on social media and ask their friends for opinions on whether, in light of the results, they should or shouldn’t get the rhinoplasty, liposuction, or the breast augmentation or reduction in question.

If you need surgical advice, our team of expert plastic surgeons can advise you. Contact the team at Clínicas Fernández Blanco, or call 915 54 09 24.