“See how the front and canines are the same size”?
I asked this question and asked it at several meetings with friends this year, turning our parts at dentistry symposia into a joke, as we zoomed in on pictures of blind-white, chicken-thick teeth of celebrities. We are held back by the example of famous people laughing at the coal. There is no and just neither. As he learns from the public plates – and how do you hit the process of acquiring can – formed a collective skepticism. Of course, shaving your teeth, and in danger of rotting like a tooth, having constant pain and a desire to replace the shells every 10 years, so that you have a perfect smile. But with that electro, you are something of a scrap that makes you recognizable.
That Faustian pact beyond the crust (though not by much). Dermal fillers, Botox, lip augmentation, jaw reshaping, rhinoplasty, chin implants, buccal fat removal, chemical peels, blepharoplasty and forehead lift – all. more common cosmetic procedures, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons – promise a more polished, symmetrical and youthful appearance. But with these popular processes always rises, the faces of people – especially women, which 84% done of patients getting cosmetic facial surgery in 2023 — are changing at a rate and to an extent that cannot be ignored. And while the FDA may not be able to limit how much filler a person can take, the social safety net has appeared to be nicely in place: people are more comfortable than ever publicly vocalizing that their beautiful faces look, well, strange.
In this modern age, it is a great religion to openly criticize someone for changing their appearance. But when the faces on our televisions are fed social media and more in real life they are pushed and pulled, coddled and stuffed, stretched and squeezed to their limits, there is a strong urge to stop what we have seen. The women on Love Island, who literally can’t cry because they just injected hyaluronic acid into their faces, look so amazing there. of renewed the UK’s loose regulations. The yassified Ken doll version of Matt Gaetz’s face who had debated at the Republican National Convention over the summer stole the show so oddly. “What will Matt Gaetz do?” Armiger bluntly headlined he asked. Vanity Fair he went” Matthew Gaetz Eyebrows.”
Online, as dermatologists viral for speculating of celebrity plastic surgery, “pillow face” has become a derogatory way to describe faces that are overly stuffed. It is in the same category as the recently called “Mar-a-Lago face”, a popular aesthetic with Fox News hosts and who in Trump’s inner circle, is the origin of the algorithmically grateful “Instagram face” made popular in New 2019. Yorker piece.
This is not a public procedure for people who have had a solitary rhinoplasty (although it is not uncommon for those patients to find themselves under the knife again). Indeed, among the usual patients, it is statistically most likely to be women of the cisgender, whose faces are marked by past dignity. This is about those who are caught up in the stupid fallacy of time. But the cruel irony is that the excessive modifications these women, many of whom start out suitably attractive, can have the opposite effect. Leftover filler can make patients look much older than they look. Too much Botox results in a droopy face. Neither time nor money has been lost in this pursuit.
No movie has taken the sinister insolence of this era to the extreme like Coralie Fargeat’s substance. In the film, aging star Elizabeth Sparkle, played by Demi Moore, casts a mysterious spell to turn back the clock and become the “best version” of herself. I watched through half-squinted eyes as Elizabeth’s youthful body was accentuated with passion, but even with the unbearable weariness of the movie, it wasn’t nearly as different as women in real life to maintain a youthful appearance. They extract the teeth, inject irregular substances into the bodies, open the divisions, and arrange the insides. There is a moment in the short letters of 2013 You will be happier when a relaxed, anesthetized woman’s body is raised in Brazilian stockings, lined with red dots, on the working table, so that her belly fat can be injected into her hips – a scene as horrifying as Elizabeth’s lifeless, torn body. -The body fell open on the bathroom floor, waiting for the young man to return and tend to it.
The exaggeration, the obsession, the pain and the incorporation – it makes perfect sense to interpret the youth’s interest in the end more and more. Cosmetic modifications are not just weird, but as full-blown body horror, he defines a subgenre through the mock destruction, transformation or degradation of the body.
Most recently, she has binged on the reality series I’ve binged this year: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and The Golden Bachelorette. I couldn’t double the legions of legions of clones. Influential 30-something Mormons on TikTok were seen as twenty-something women auditioning to be NFL cheerleaders, who looked like 61-year-old Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos. The voluminous length of her hair, her false lashes, her ultra-violet white teeth, at the same time contorting, signified her youth and desperation. He was dizzy and uncomfortable. A few years back, this dogma of horror – a persistent thing – played out in front of me: a friend who obviously got lip filler, his lips tender, swollen and noticeably bigger than the last time I saw him, asked: “You can’t tell that I got lip filler, right? ” I was at a loss as to how to respond and before I could, another friend told him: “No! No way!” Maybe if he had asked this year, I would have been brave enough to tell him the truth.
There are many reasons why women should invest in their species. With the fact that we are conditioned from day to day to believe that our value lies in the proximity of beauty, society and the great people who treat lovable people better. slim women outside his overweight coworkers. The more attractive someone is less likely be arrested or convicted of a crime. When Elisabeth’s physical afflictions manifest themselves in substance, we also witness the interpersonal and social cruelty that informs them: she is harassed by strangers in the street and in her professional life because she simply dares not to fall dead at the turning of 50. .
However, it seems that we have finally reached a point where we are being asked to reckon with a broken promise. A promise, which is falsely admitted through physical perfection, obligates self-action. The deceptive faith of a key promise can be overcome with age, if one emphasizes it enough in the face. Twenty years after the FDA approved hyaluronic acid for dermal fillers, we are witnessing what has happened to the league of women who have not seen their age. He is both socially and personally disoriented. At a really basic level, we’re also here for proof of aging. When we diminish or erase its meanings, do we not also undermine our own existence?
Recently, dermatology cosmetic clinics have seen a big rise in patients missing out loose filler. They were celebrities more vocal He regretted more than ever their cosmetic procedure, admitting that they themselves had become unknown. Influential documents are their “suffering from the south”; criticizing they spent time, money and effort on a beautiful study. It is also worth pointing out that as AI images and social media become inevitable, the appetite for sincerity will increase. Of course, part of the injection injection trend is that – a trend, and a natural counterstroke to the madness of the previous year. But with cosmetic procedures relocating celebrities (and regular people) deep into the uncanny valley, this backlash feels significant.
The year 2023 is considered by many “Year of the Girl” – A year decked out in bows and playful balletcore, when we dined on “girl lunches” in front of Barbie bashing, and “math girl” to buy tickets to Taylor Swift’s Erasure tour. But as women’s bodily autonomy faces increasing threats and the right is cruelly occupied, which constitutes feminine features, the ultimate glorification of purity, youth and the unblemished nature of women’s nature, seems to be insufficient time to meet. Aging looks take on a deeper role. Those who come to power are hellbent on establishing narrow vision of womenpertaining to the aesthetics that uphold the old gender roles, and seek to punish and humiliate those who fall outside of it. Integrity is in not conforming.
One of the shows I successfully sweated over the summer, Secrets of Mormon Wives, centers around TikTok momfluencers whose popularity has made them breadwinners in their Mormon marriages. This is the skirt hugging version contemporary feminism that centers individual successes (getting a profitable sponcon for a sex toy, hosting a party to celebrate a recent labiaplasty) over collective liberation (footage not found). With flowing hair parted in the middle, still glowing bronze in the Utah winter, and lips perfectly pursed, most of them are comically distinguishable from each other. The two castmates, Demi and Jessi, look so alike Many things have happened TikToks are about mass confusion. The only Black woman on the cast, Layla, did half the cosmetic surgeries when she got herself a watch on Season 1. he said Page Six “I want a new man one day to revamp me!”
However, no matter how fulfilled these women are, no matter how closely they achieve the aesthetic model of modern women, they are still under the conservative rule of the church, which fundamentally does not hold them to be equal to their men. In one memorable episode, the most devoted show of all, a virgin named Jen, was yelled at by her husband for being irrationally angry over a trivial matter. When she cries on the phone to him, begging him to forgive her, it’s clear how her devotion to looking like other women, who want to be seen as the perfect woman for no reason. The middle ground between physical perfection and self-actualization, despite our efforts to smooth some tight skin over it, remains wide.