Shatha Alwan - Al Jazeera Net
Between cosmetic surgery and beauty obsession regardless of its source, and how its results, it may not differ two that the interest of women in their form and elegance and beauty and boast of instinct instinct instinct since the dawn of history, and does not differ from Iraqi women of the world's women.
But what is seen by some today - is the frequent turnout of beauty centers in Baghdad to change the features of the face and highlight some of them or the reduction and enlargement of others, in a search for beauty, within the schedule is almost maintained by women periodically, despite the recent experience of these centers.
| Girl undergoing cosmetic surgery at a beauty center in Iraq (Al Jazeera) |
Cosmetic surgery
Arwa Mustafa, one of the dealings with these centers talked about her experience with cosmetic operations, saying that beauty today has become a requirement and social necessity for girls for several reasons; the most important of which is that the market of various jobs is not accept the workers in it unless they bear attractive features and beautiful form, regardless of the culture that Possession, educational attainment and other skills, "even if this beauty is temporary or artificial."
Opportunities for marriage
She adds to the island Net that the chances of marriage to the trends of these centers higher and better in comparison with others less fortunate than beauty, because the standards of today's youth have changed in the selection of life partners, as previous generations were more interested in good education and high proportions and cooking skills, and even achievement and scientific excellence.
Arwa talks about going into the beauty experiment. She hesitated a lot before she took the risk of adjusting her nose and blowing her lips, but she decided to go on to look more beautiful, youthful, confident and contented.
| Girl undergoing cosmetic surgery at a beauty center in Erbil |
Addiction and Experiences
The young woman, Hadeel Thamer, talks about her failed experience with cosmetic injections, which distorted the features of her soft face and replaced her with more roughness that did not match the size and shape of her face, causing her severe isolation until waiting for the temporary beauty to come to an end. Childish and innocent child who had lost her injection, she says.
Distortion Distorts!
"The addiction to beauty is what can distort the features of girls and not the processes that take place naturally and not exaggerated," said beauty expert Mary al-Jubouri, a beauty salon owner in Baghdad. Buy "Accessories" or new clothes.
Faces of fashion
It is common to see girls asking for certain cosmetic procedures, although they do not need them, on the grounds that their faces are not suited to fashion, as some seek modifications that make them more like famous names in the art world.
Jubouri added that these operations represent a glimmer of hope for cases in which the owners suffer from problems that require surgical intervention to treat them, such as suffering from deformities, burns, excessive obesity, broken bones of the nose or jaw and so on.
Doing these exercises can make a difference and contribute to improving their mental state, increasing self-confidence, and normalizing their lives.
Draw attention
The psychological researcher Dr. Afrah Al-Zubaidi considered that enhancing women's self-confidence and feeling of psychological comfort is associated with appearance in a beautiful and decent appearance to others, but attempts to get beauty and exaggeration in the absurd in order to draw attention to something else.
She adds that the poor taste of some girls has become a source of aversion to many, as the recent phenomenon of girls' access to beauty centers has produced similar forms to a large extent, because of the repeated way of dealing with all cases.
| Devices used in cosmetic operations in one of the centers (Al Jazeera) |
Nail beauty
Although the human soul tends to beauty, to achieve the ecstasy of the person's sense of perfection and distinct form, which makes him able to continue his life in a more positive and effective; the excessive access to this can leave the ugly and the ugliness and distortion of boundless, as she put it.
Al-Zubaidi stresses that the critical economic situation and the spread of unemployment in Iraq have caused a rift in social relations because of the attempts of women to nail beauty at all costs, despite the high prices that are spent on these operations, which drain the strength of families, as well as the negative feeling of women that can not achieve, And the reflection on family relations, as you see.
Exaggeration and imitation
Experts and social scientists have warned against exaggerating cosmetic surgery and changing faces with more beautiful ones. The phenomenon has become a dangerous stage for even some men, many of whom are looking for permanent youth, but a significant number of them have distorted their features and become socially unacceptable.
Social researcher Ahmed al-Zubaidi spoke to Al-Jazeera Net about the reasons for the recent rebound in this phenomenon, exaggerating it, and attributed it to the superficial thinking and cultural level of some women.
He considered that the absence of the goal and increase leisure time and follow the stars of art and access to their narrow worlds through social networking sites and trying to "blind" imitation of beauties; led to this excessive obsession, as he put it.
| One of the cosmetic surgery centers in one of the centers in Erbil (Al Jazeera) |
Baghdad has witnessed in recent years a large increase in the number of beauty centers, and high rates of turnout of different ages, despite the death of a number of women owners of these centers under mysterious circumstances, but the most prominent question posed by some: Is cosmetic surgery is an urgent need without life without them? Or is it a whirlwind that will soon end with the end of its results?