Over the past two years, a constant stream of tabloid articles, YouTube videos, and viral Instagram posts seemed to tell a version of the same story. Celebrities and influencers undo major cosmetic surgeries. Perhaps it’s something they’ve had for years, maybe even a feature they’re famous for. For example, Molly Mae Hague melting her cheek and lip fillers, or Cardi B removing her butt implants, these “extraction” surgeries became a trend in their own right and marked the 2010s. Brazilian Butt marked the end of her lift and plump face in favor of a more natural look.
Many characterize this as a positive trend. Celebrities who have redone their past work have experienced a storm of praise not only for their courage and transparency, but also for “setting a good example” to an audience of typically young women. Some have warned that these shifts, such as the decline in the popularity of the human body, the display of more realistic bodies, are just a brief middle ground in the swing of the cultural pendulum towards a similarly unattainable set of body ideals. increase.
The fashion and beauty media are heralding a resurgence of Year 2000 aesthetics. A flat belly, a skinny face, and eyebrows that reach down to your hairline. Much has been written about the skyrocketing popularity of buccal fat removal and the possible resurgence of ‘heroin chic’. , the truth is, we’re not going back to the 2000s, but to a much worse place.
Over the last 20 years, cosmetic surgery has become the norm for the average person. Alongside Kim Kardashian’s desire for aesthetics, there has been a dramatic surge in the number of people undergoing cosmetic procedures such as fillers and preventive botox, implants and butt lifts. It often uses watered-down, commercialized feminism to brand feminism as “empowering,” instead. As a result, the insidiousness of the cosmetic surgery industry is underestimated.
Today, we are seeing a major shift in mainstream body aesthetics at the same time that surgery and “tweaks” have become commonplace. People, mostly women, who have undergone major surgeries are doing surgeries to fit a particular hourglass figure. , what happens now? What does more pinching and shoving do to our bodies?
The most popular surgeries of the 2010s are often difficult to reverse, and those looking to switch from curvy to skeletal physiques are paying high prices and taking great risks. . Paul, a prominent plastic surgeon in the South of England who practices in Harley Street, London His Dr. Banwell said his buccal increased requests for treatments such as fat removal and decreased requests for surgeries such as a butt lift It says it does. We also received many requests to undo past cosmetic work. “These weren’t things that typically had to be done before,” he says. “This has changed recently because a lot of patients actually know it’s possible. So some play with different looks as ‘fashion.’ Dr. Elizabeth Hawkes, a consultant eye plastic surgeon, emphasized that when it comes to extreme eyelifts (an aesthetic popularized by models such as Bella Hadid): increase. challenge”.
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The problem is not only that large-scale undos and subsequent redoes of cosmetic surgery are underway, but that another dramatic shift in the ideal and fashionable body shape is inevitably coming soon. When that happens, it may take a third, albeit risky, trend-following step. We may be left with a generation that continually mutilates their own bodies.
Narrow beauty standards have always had a negative impact on our self-esteem and have driven millions to dangerous levels even before the rise of surgery. is treated like fast fashion. At a cost, both physical and emotional, our functions are altered and stripped to fit all fads.
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