UAE, Aug. 27 -- Self-care used to mean bubble baths, tea breaks, and nights off from your phone. Then it got louder. Now it's clay masks, therapy, supplements, gym time, breathwork, facials, green juice, and long walks with podcasts. Somewhere in that pile, plastic surgery slipped in quietly. Or maybe not quietly. Maybe it stomped in with a scalpel and asked for a seat at the table. People now talk about "tweakments" and "refreshers" the way they used to talk about serums. If that's where we are, maybe plastic surgery really is changing the meaning of self-care. But is plastic surgery right for you, and how do you know?

What Counts and What Doesn't Self-care became a catch-all term so fast that no one set rules. It's emotional, physical,...