Kareena effect: Lasses take surgical route

After her sizzling size-zero waist, Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor's fatless face look is becoming yet another rage with young girls with some of them even taking the surgical route to get that hollow look.
While women have been opting for cosmetic surgery for fat reduction to seek the overall slim look for quite some time now, of late there has been an upswing in the number of girls approaching surgeons to get a "wafer-slim" face.
Cosmetic surgeons say the new fad, which was fairly common for Hollywood buffs, has finally come to India.
"We have witnessed an increase in this trend in the last few months, I would say only after Kareena's appearance in 'Tashan'," says Dr Amit Gupta, plastic surgeon at Delhi's Divin Cosmetic Surgery.
"While earlier women seeking such a procedure came once in a while, now I have been undertaking at least two to three surgeries for fat reduction on the face every month," he says.
Buccal fat pad removal is a short but delicate procedure, in which the lump of fat inside the cheeks is removed by making a small cut in the mouth, to give a hollow look on the cheeks. The therapy can cost you between Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000.
On the other hand is liposuction that is extremely safe that costs almost the same and can be done under local anaesthesia.