The three most common procedures are double eyelid surgery, liposuction and nose jobs.

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Do you think Japanese women who have double-eyelid operations are doing it to look more Western?

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Yet Hollywood is one of the most ruthless industries in the world: a place where giant multinationals package pap for the masses, slippery agents carry the art of the double cross to levels undreamed of by Talleyrand, and nobody bats an eyelid when the stars make millions and the rest of the crew is thrown on the dole at the end of a production.

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