It's not just the ugly Americans

A flurry of plastic surgery and beauty-related news from foreign lands lately:

Is Taiwan Asia's next one-stop plastic surgery shop? Who knew? I just visit for the food...

Indian students flock to plastic surgery to get ahead. I think this happens here in the US as well, but people tend not to be so frank about it (and we're not just talking about the citizens of Hollywood, either).

Vaseline skin-lightening app stirs debate. Now this isn't a new phenomenon in Asia; many East Asian women are quite fastidious about sun avoidance and a number of creams/lotions/potions/treatments promise to lighten or brighten are directly marketed at them. But the app seemed to take it one step too far.