Vanessa L. Williams Good genes may be Williams’s secret weapon in the beauty wars. “Darker skin has more melanin, which protects it from sun damage,” says L.A. plastic surgeon Randal Haworth. “That’s allowed her to grow older gracefully.”

According to Dr. Randal Haworth of Beverly Hills, both the groom and the best man have had nose jobs done by surgeons who “share a penchant for narrow noses that don’t match with their faces.” Jackson’s ever shrinking nose is overly shortened, showing too much nostril, he says, while Gest’s face has a disharmony to it “not normally seen in nature.” Adds Haworth, “They may think that a narrow nose translates into elegance, but really it translates into bad plastic surgery.”

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Most people would guess that it takes stars roughly four hours to get beautified for the Oscars, but they’d be way off. Actresses who want to look in extra tip-top shape takes not hours, not weeks, but months to prime themselves. The metamorphosis begins about five months before the Oscars to ensure that nose jobs, eye tucks and liposuction procedures heal well. Getting a full face lift is much less common these days instead, celebrities ask for several mini-procedures so fans won’t notice the transformation. “Some of my famous clients will bring in a DVD of their latest movie and say, “I know I’m crazy, doc, but look at this scene. Here my jowls look big,'” says surgeon-to-the stars Dr. Randal Haworth . “So we’ll do a minor treatment, like lipo their cheeks.”

NECK: GWYNETH PALTROW “Clients say her neck is so beautiful,” says Haworth. “She’s got an elegant, gracious, swan like way about her.”

CHEEKBONES: CHRISTY TURLINGTON L.A plastic surgeon Randal Haworth calls this model’s defined structure “a big influence on cheekbones.”

Skin resurfacing. As recently as two years ago, laser resurfacing was all the rage as a means of eliminating acne scarring, blasting fine lines away and erasing dark spots from sun damage. Today, doctors have cooled on it a bit, if only because it involves considerable recovery time and could produce scary side effects: The laser has to destroy the outer layers of skin in order to encourage new skin growth and higher collagen production. “If the patient is not prepared, it’s very tough,” Shuster says. “His skin is going to peel off.”

Certainly there are cases in which laser is the way to go, especially when the patient can manage to stay out of sight for a couple of weeks after treatment. But the current preference is for light chemical peels, micro-dermabrasion and gentle laser sesions. While the particulars vary, the common approach is multiple lesser-intensity visits that produce a cumulative results. “You undergo a series of seven to 10 sessions,” Haworth says, speaking specifically about the sand-blast method of micro-dermabrasion, “and they act like one longer procedure.”

Facial surgery. All the same, going under the knife can still be an option of last resort. Any of the procedures already mentioned, including Botox and fat injections, work well on older patients. And small surgical procedures a little nip and tuck under the eye or along the jawline will go a long way toward making a man look more rested and healthy. The closest that most men come to the full tug-which doesn’t have many proponents these days anyway- is either the modified facelift or the so called unified-incision facelift, the latter a procedure that Imber helped develop. In the modified lift, the surgeon simply goes for less radical results. In the unified procedure, the surgeon makes a short cut in front of the ears and through it tightens the skin of the face-but not, as in a traditional full facelift, the skin of hte forehead.

A facelift is typically accompanied by a lift of the skin on the neck, to keep skin tone consistent. Haworth is enthusiastic about a new type of necklift in which the surgeon runs a Gortex sling from the tough tissue behing one ear underneath the neck and around behind the other ear. “It redefines the neck remarkably,” he says. “It not only addresses loose musculature, it also redirects the skin upward. After the patient looks like he’s just come back from a great ski vacation.

NECK-AND FACELIFT Randal Haworth MD 436 N. Bedford Dr. Suite 105, Beverly Hills CA 90210 (310) 273.3000

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“Sylvester Stallone has had great facial rejuvenation” says Randal Haworth, a Los Angeles plastic surgeon.

…billion viewers and be photographed thousands times without having gotten that facelift they know they need had better take care of it early. You’d certainly want all the swelling down by the Golden Globes (that Oscar precursor that’s become so vital it’s now almost like Act 1 of the Oscars), and it takes a minimum of a couple of months to look photo ready again –just ask a Beverly Hills surgeon to the stars like Dr. Randal Haworth …