Heard this on BBC today and checked it out..yeps, its true that banking institutions in Lebanon are offering this. These banks are offering Cash [read Loans] for Plastic [read Plastic Surgery] . First National Bank of Lebanon believes this practice is as ethical as offerig loans for any other services like car, house or business. The loan amount can be from US$500 to US$5000, freedom to choose the doctor, and repayments in upto 2 years.

FNB has some conditions for the applicant(s):

• Should be a Lebanese citizen employed or self employed.
• Should have be employed for more than one year or more than 2 years for self employed.
• Monthly payment up to 1/3 monthly salary for employees and 1/4 monthly income for self employed and according to the marital status.
• Minimum salary required is $ 600 (or its equivalent in LBP) for single employees, $ 900 (or its equivalent in LBP) for married employees and 1500$ (or its equivalent in LBP) for self-employed.
• Shouldn’t be over 64 years old or at retirment age when the loan ends.

So if you are a Lebanese, aspiring those nips’n tuck, you can fly down to Lebanon, have a vacation, get under the knife and return back a happy chappy looking like glossy mag model [..yeah right].

Now why would you wanna spoil that God gifted beautiful body of yours with such procedures. I could never understand why women would go for pouted lips looking like ‘hoses of Hoover’, or getting ‘uplifted’ looking like next-door Pam Anderson, only more abusive and gorging food like hibernating polar bear afterwards. Even men are not behind, as they happily go under the surgeons knife, to loose those handles they put on gorging down shewermas and McBurgers. Get a life, follow a diet pattern and do some excercise!

With banks now in for a making a kill, advertising loans for plastic surgery, this is highly irresponsible and unethical. Its a well known fact that many of the surgeries performed require a series of follow-up surgeries. Imagine getting a crooked nose-job for which you took a loan of US$2000, now you need another one of those loans. Worst part you would be physically exhausted and psychologically blown to bits, after all this is surgery. So you end up disfigured, depressed, probably loosing job for being away so long, and have multiple loan repayments, and worse have to take more loans to look normal.

One condition the bank has missed is ‘Satisfaction Not Guaranteed’.

More info FNB [LINK]