Pursuing beauty is the most dangerous thing...

Well beauty is rather well.. natural. But if there is a need... well there is plastic surgery... but its not safe... why i said not safe, well there is a story about plastic surgery that went horribly wrong...

The pursuit of perfect beauty sometimes comes at a terrible price, as a Chinese pop star lost her life during a plastic surgery operation.

Former reality TV show contestant, 24-year-old Wang Bei died after going under the knife for a "facial bone-grinding surgery" in the central city of Wuhan, Chinese media have reported.

The young woman, who was already popular for her beauty, died on the operating table after her jaw started bleeding, blocking her windpipe and suffocating her.

The tragic death had been blamed on an “anaesthetic accident”, according to Xinhua news agency, citing the local health bureau.

According to reports, Wang’s mother was also undergoing the same procedure at the same time as her daughter.

Wang’s death shed light on the ugly side of plastic surgery, with the number of Chinese women taking to plastic surgeries increasing every year.

Concerns about the dangers of these kinds of procedures have increased in a country where three million people undergo operations to enhance their beauty, according to figures published in China’s local media.

The rising demand to improve beauty through surgery has seen doctors carrying out procedures they were not trained for, "which is risky and irresponsible", said Zhang Huabin, a professor of plastic surgery at southern China's Guangdong Medical College.

One surgery said it had recently had a surge of older people trying to reclaim former youth.

"Nowadays, people are living longer and better. But the effects of aging on their appearance affects their mood and confidence," plastic surgeon Ye Xinhai told Xinhua news agency.

“Many older women want to look as young and beautiful as those high-profile older actresses in TV dramas or South Korean soaps operas and are happy to spend money on their appearance."

However, younger people see surgery as a pathway to money and romance.

"They want to improve their appearance to find better opportunities at work and in marriage," plastic surgeon with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Ding Xiaobang, said.

"We're living in a highly competitive society. People regard appearance as a weapon and a means of empowerment ... Most of them tell me, 'I don't care how much I spend, just make me look beautiful'."