Instagram: the most aberrant aesthetic challenges
Networks.The dangerous challenge of Tik Tok that is all the rage among teenagers: filing your teeth at home
Not to dad, not to mom.
The girl is
obsessed with looking like that 'leaked' image
that is so highly traded on social networks.
He wants to get up every morning and contemplate in front of the mirror those
slanted eyes
, that lush skin dotted with freckles (strategically 'sprinkled'), that mischievously upturned nose and those
voluminous lips
that his 'followers' praise so much.
The boy also does not like the chin he inherited from his grandfather;
he finds it not very manly.
He is convinced that, with a
marked jaw
and less fat on his cheeks, his life would change, that he would be a winner.
No, unfortunately, this is not science fiction.
It is the 'new normal' for surgeons and aesthetic doctors like Dr. Gema Pérez Sevilla: "I have been working in facial aesthetics for 23 years and I have experienced many things, many trends and many fashions but, lately, I have observed in my office how the cases of patients with
very disturbing stereotypes
".
Pérez Sevilla relates that, increasingly frequently receives "very young girls, aged 14 to 25 who want to
completely transform their faces to get to
be like their filters 'Snapchat'
favorites. They
also bring me
photos of models
to those that, supposedly, are similar in features so that it makes them the operations necessary to be identical to them ".
Some, the economically independent, go alone to the consultation but "the minors are
accompanied by their mothers
who, absolutely desperate, usually send me messages beforehand in which they tell me that
their daughters are very unhappy
, they do not love each other, they hate their faces and they want to completely change them to be the ones that appear on Instagram or Tik Tok thanks to the filters. "
What are those traits that, presumably, will fill you with happiness?
"The '
foxy eyes
' (fox eyes), those extremely ripped looks that are so highly quoted in the networks, the
marked cheekbones
, the
exaggeratedly fleshy lips
and the 'perfect' noses".
"As the mother of a 16-year-old girl," confesses Pérez Sevilla, "their hairs stand on end when I receive them. I can't stop wondering
what is happening on social networks for girls to start not loving themselves to such young ages
because their faces do not conform to the millimeter to the canons of beauty imposed in the digital world ".
This doctor assures that, according to her experience, "the cases of girls are more frequent but there are also
many boys, between 20 and 25 years old
, who tell me that they do not like their nose,
jaw
or chin and that they want to appear
more Manly
. I
'm
talking about really gorgeous guys who are subjected to tremendously destructive self-criticism. "
STAYING 'OUT OF THE MARKET'
The youngest are not the only ones who 'fall into the trap' of absolutely unrealistic canons of beauty.
"This pressure to always look
beautiful and eternally young
also affects the most mature. More and more frequently, I see people, between 45 and 55 years old, who have assumed as their own
a pattern of beauty that prevents them from aging with dignity
. haunted by the thought that if they are not great, they will be left out of the market, they will no longer be attractive or they will not do well at work. "
Middle-aged people, says this doctor, walk through her doorstep "wanting not to be old, not to appear their age."
The workhorse, even above wrinkles, is "
flaccidity
" and "
hair treatments
" are also on the rise
.
'POSITIVE FACE'
Alerted by this 'boom' of strange requests a la carte, Pérez Sevilla has decided to lead the '
positive face' movement
to remember that "we are not all the same and that the beauty of the face has many different faces".
The objective of this current of thought, which seeks a
balance between medicine and cosmetic surgery and
inner
well-being
, is "to combat those stereotypes far from reality created in social networks."
In his opinion, this pressure may end up altering "the self-esteem of many people who seek changes in medicine and cosmetic surgery that can cause real aberrations."
For this reason, he advocates "
protecting,
above all, the
new generations
against this bombardment."
"I am a cosmetic doctor and facial cosmetic surgeon. I live by this and I do it convinced that it is not something frivolous but that
I am doing a good to society,
that I contribute my grain of sand to achieve a healthy aging or help people who is going through a difficult time, "he says.
However, he emphasizes that the need to differentiate between "the
patient
who, regardless of his age,
accepts himself but wants to improve
and the one who is
pressured by standards
that all they do is
alter his self-esteem
and those who, As a doctor, I consider that I cannot 'give a ball' because they base their inner well-being on an aesthetic imposition coming from the outside. "
In his understanding, "aesthetic medicine has to
be practiced from sanity, not from external pathology.
This is how I conceive it and it hurts me that some colleagues, very powerful in networks, are frivolizing the profession, carrying out very exaggerated treatments . We must say enough.
We are not all the same,
"he concludes.
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