Midday lines snake out to the street in an upmarket Shanghai neighborhood, but it is not lunch at the city’s hottest restaurant that people are lining up for it’s cosmetic “microprocedures,” which are surging in popularity in China.
The “lunchtime facelift” and other “medical aesthetics” procedures are booming as a new generation of Chinese consumers grapple with the pressure to look good on social media as well as in person.
Kayla Zhang has never actually gone under the knife for cosmetic reasons, but she has had laser treatments, injections and a thread lift a barbed string inserted under the