Plastic Surgery on your Palms to Change your Future

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Changing your destiny is possible if you take charge of your life ... and have plastic surgery on your palms. A dumbfounding new craze is emerging in Japan. People in search of a better future have surgery to change the lines on their palms.

Palm reading is one of the most popular forms of fortune-telling in the world. And just like many other people, the Japanese can also be serious about palm reading, they believe that their future is written on the palm of their hands.

But what if a person is born with “unlucky” palm lines? Does that mean that they are doomed to be unlucky for the rest of their life? Not so, according to the Japanese. They have now found a way for how to take charge of their fate.

Japan is a country that is famous for all kinds of interesting and crazy ideas and so it is no surprise that this newest craze is becoming popular.

The demand for palm plastic surgery has increased in the recent months.

A plastic surgeon who works at the Shonan Beauty Clinic’s Shinjuku branch, first performed the operation in 2011 when a female patient specifically asked for her palm lines to be changed so she could have better luck.

After reading medical journals, he found out that the surgery was being done in Korea. The operation, which cost 100,000 yen became a success, and soon people were lining up for the surgery.

He used an electric surgical knife to burn the skin of the hand and leave a semi-permanent scar.

If you try to create a palm line with a laser, it heals, and it won’t leave a clear mark. You have to use the electric surgery knife and make a shaky cut, because palm lines are never completely straight, according to the doctor.

The Shonan Beauty Clinic now relies on word-of-mouth advertising because they couldn’t keep up with the high demand of patients who want to have the surgery done anymore. From January 2011 to May 2013, the clinic has performed 37 plastic palm surgeries, 20 of them by one doctor.

It’s an expensive operation and you might think it’s a crazy idea, but the real and most important question is if it does work.

According to the doctor, if people think they’ll be lucky, sometimes they become lucky. And it’s not like the palm lines are really written in stone – they’re basically wrinkles, The doctor thinks that having your palms changed might just be a placebo effect. They do change with time. Even the way you use your hands can change the lines.

Some palm readers will even suggest that their clients draw the lines on their hands to change their luck. And this was before palm plastic surgery existed.

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