My view on Beauty Treatment

Assignment 3: Write a short letter to the editor of SCMP expressing your view on beauty treatment (200 - 400 words); deadline (31.10.2012)

 

Mary L.

X/F, Tai XXXX Court,

Tai X, H. K.

31^st October, 2012

The Editor,

SCMP,

H.K.

Dear Editor,

My View On Beauty Treatment

     I am a Hong Kong Citizen.  My name is Mary L.  I was sad yet angry to read the news of the DR Beauty Centre which had made four women seriously ill with septic shock.  I wish to express my view on beauty treatment.

There are two main parties who should be familiar to the terms of receiving these treatments.  They are the HKSAR and customers.

First, there is a need to differentiate beauty treatment from medical treatment.   Medical treatment is to cure people's illness and diseases reducing their sufferings and discomfort, maintaining with less or without deterioration; by improving their quality of life, or their lives can be survived.   Beauty treatment is to enhance a person’s external appearance.   In other words, medical treatment is of necessity and may involve a matter of life and death, while beauty treatment is not.   Examples of the latter are anti-wrinkle treatment, skin whitening treatment, body or face slimming treatment, skin firming, smoothening treatments..., etc.

Second, licensing control by the HKSAR is a need to regulate beauty treatment, while ‘intrusive treatment’ is a must.  Inspections by medical professionals should be carried out regularly.  The surgery should be done by specially trained, well-qualified medical professionals instead of general practitioners.

Third, the risks should be made known to the customers.   Intrusive treatments (e.g. intravenous injections) are more risky than non-intrusive treatment (e.g. massage).   One must be made aware of the down sides.  Therefore, customers should read the agreements carefully before signing.  They should assess the risks before making any decisions to undergo it.

Fourth, the government should increase the public awareness on what constitutes a need to undergo beauty treatment, and that beauty in appearance may not be of the most importance.   The government should cultivate the Hong Kong citizens the bright and right attitudes towards getting old, that is, it is natural to have wrinkles, silky and silvery hair, etc., when one gets old.  Moreover, one should learn to be proud of getting old.   It is futile to look young while one ages.   The process of aging is natural and applies to all.

In view of the above suggestions, I am sure when a person going to have beauty treatments will have the most important ideas and proper consideration beforehand.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Mary L.