Cosmetic Surgery Experience Leads to Birth of A Business

(PRWEB) May 17, 2000

News Release prepared by:

Creative Enterprises

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Knowing that we are all "the sum of our parts," it’s easy to realize how a lifetime of experiences and lessons learned can become the foundation of an entrepreneurial effort. Linda Allen’s business, Cosmetic Surgery Consultants (now with an online presence at http://www.cosmeticsurgeryhotline.com) is one such inspired entrepreneurial venture.

Ms. Allen, a former television exercise show host and video producer, is a long-time proponent of maintaining one’s physical vitality through exercise, nutrition and skin care. She viewed cosmetic surgery as just another logical step in looking as young as you feel. Not knowing where to find a reputable plastic surgeon however, she called a free 800-referral line for information. She didn’t realize, and never imagined, that the physicians referred had all paid big fees to get those referrals, and that no one had done any research on them, their techniques, or their track record. "I might have done just as well by closing my eyes and pointing to an ad in the Yellow Pages," she says. Her resulting experience taught her that shopping for a cosmetic surgeon is a serious business -- one that requires the kind of guidance she had been unable to find.

It was from this experience that Cosmetic Surgery Consultants was born. During a period of several years, enduring multiple corrective surgeries to repair damage from her own initial botched procedures, Ms. Allen researched medical books and journals in addition to interviewing more than thirty plastic surgeons to learn all that she could about cosmetic enhancement. By forming Cosmetic Surgery Consultants, Ms. Allen is gratified to be able to share the wealth of information and experience gained throughout her own ordeal. "If I can help someone else avoid what I went through by educating them in the dangers of free referral services, then it will all be worth it."

Now considered an expert consultant in the field of cosmetic enhancement, Ms. Allen has created a service that includes:

-- Developing a cosmetic enhancement plan

-- Defining procedures and alternatives

-- Doctor referrals

-- Setting up a pre-surgical regimen

-- Post operative care

-- Establishing recovery routines

-- Setting up recovery nurses and centers

In addition to developing the consulting service, Ms. Allen also created a line of beauty care products, Hollywood Prime Formulas; published a booklet called "Hollywood Secrets of Looking Young and Beautiful;" and has also set up a fee-based hotline at 1-900-SURGERY. The hotline is for the use of those considering cosmetic surgery that wish to find affordable information on enhancement procedures and unbiased doctor referrals.

And for the future, as the Cosmetic Surgery Hotline settles into its new home on the web, Ms. Allen plans to return her focus to her first love . . . her Hollywood Prime Formulas anti-aging skin care products. "I’m working now to get them into retail stores as well as selling them online." It would be a stretch of the imagination to call a bad cosmetic surgery experience a "blessing;" but in Linda Allen’s case, it’s difficult not to look at it as something that was meant to be. Her experiences will result in untold numbers of more informed and better-prepared candidates for cosmetic enhancement.

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