Amid botched procedures, China cracking down on cosmetic surgery

January 27, 2026

Washington Post: A chatroom filled with thousands of posts about failed nose jobs and liposuction. A plastic surgeon with dozens of photos from patients — with swollen faces or mottled foreheads — seeking help after procedures gone terribly wrong. An actress who went viral after a cosmetic surgery left her with blackened, dead skin at the tip of her nose…