SHANGHAI, China — Nothing says I love you on Valentine's Day like a box of candy and a bouquet of roses. Err, make that noses.

China's obsession with plastic surgery is finding an outlet in couples who are going under the knife to get matching noses or eyes as a sign of their love for one another, the official newspaper China Daily reported.

"I suggested it as a way of celebrating our relationship and bringing us closer together with a special kind of bond," Liu Yan, 24, was quoted as saying of the nose jobs she suggested to her 28-year-old boyfriend.

Liu said her boyfriend "loved the idea" and readily paid the $1,200 cost of surgery.

Business at Shanghai's ever-growing number of plastic surgery clinics has risen by up to 30 percent since the beginning of the month, fueled both by Valentine's Day and the recently concluded lunar New Year.