This guide is a helpful companion on your journey to both inner and outer beauty. This guide is for you if you want to learn more about cosmetic treatments without the pressure of sales pitches and value realistic, unbiased information. It answers why we seek beauty and how to stay true to ourselves when choosing treatments. The guide addresses questions about methods, side effects, and healing processes for aesthetic treatments such as tightening surgeries, facelifts, or Botox, and helps you select the right physician. It also explores alternative methods for a positive self-image. Written by a specialist and expert in plastic and aesthetic surgery, this book is aimed at patients, their families, and interested laypeople. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.