Palmistry is the ancient art of predicting the future by reading lines in the palm of the hand. This art is very popular in Japan, where palmists charge clients up to $ 100 for a meeting, where they tell them what the future holds, just by looking at a drawing of a palm.
Those who are dissatisfied with the "pattern" that nature has awarded them have a new way to become the master of their destiny - to change the lines of the palm with the help of cosmetic surgery. Similar surgeries, which are also performed in Korea, are performed with an electric scalpel that burns through the flesh and leaves a scar.
In the period from January 2011 to May 2013, 37 plastic surgeries on the palms were performed in Japan. In the “Senan” beauty clinic, such an operation can be performed for $ 1000, but at present this service is not advertised, since the clinic cannot serve everyone.
Dr. Matsuoka, who has performed 20 such operations, told The Daily Beast: “If you are trying to create a line in the palm of your hand with a laser, you must be an artist. Your task is to draw a line on the patient's arm using an electric scalpel, because unlike a surgical incision, the lines on the palm are never completely straight. If you don't burn the skin hard enough and use a simple scalpel, lines won't form. In general, this is a simple operation, but it must be done correctly."
This procedure usually takes 10 to 15 minutes. During this time, from 5 to 10 lines can change on the patient's palm. Some of them use a marker to show the surgeon which lines they want to extend or widen before surgery.
It takes about a month to fully recover after such a procedure. Most of the patients are men and women under the age of 30 who are fond of fortune telling. While men want surgeons to express their wealth and success lines, women want to lengthen the lines of love. Some of the fair sex even believe that because of a too short line of love, they will not find true love and will not get married.
Oddly enough, according to Dr. Matsuoka, surgery actually helped some of his patients. In particular, one of his patients the doctor "drew" a marriage line, and soon after that she got married. Two other patients won the lottery after the fate line was extended.
However, despite these successes, Matsuoka is not convinced that the events in these people's lives were influenced by the operations. In his opinion, they can be something like a placebo effect.
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“If people believe that they will be lucky, someday they will indeed be lucky. And it's not about the lines in the palm of your hand,”he adds.