Severe jaws, razor-sharp cheekbones and lips to make Mick Jagger blush—the so-called “Mar-a-Lago face” is all the rage in Washington, D.C., and Palm Beach. But Sarasotans, at least for the time being, seem to prefer a subtler touch for their plastic surgery.
“Fortunately for us, Sarasota is not a market for overdone [work],” says Dr. Scott Engel of the Sarasota Plastic Surgery Center. “Some people have a Gucci purse because they want people to know they have a Gucci purse. That’s not my philosophy. If you know someone has had plastic surgery, that’s bad plastic surgery.”
While the popularity of plastic surgery rises and falls in other areas, Engel says that Sarasota, with its consistently affluent population, has remained eager for nips and tucks over the last three decades that he’s been practicing here. In fact, these days he sees much younger clientele than the traditional 65-and-up bracket…