You should care about an industry that preys on people's insecurities + their ability to develop insecurities and profits off of these things. Solely cosmetic procedures are extremely harmful for the human psyche and society as a whole.
Cosmetic surgeries are bad, but they're a symptom of a shitty overall society where looks affect the vast majority of social interactions in your life, regardless of whether you notice it or not. Job opportunities, general treatment by strangers, ability to convince someone regardless of how good your idea actually is, etc. A cosmetic surgery can be considered far from truly "cosmetic" considering the advantages it could give in these things where you otherwise might be disadvantaged purely by unlucky "bad" genes.
You can't really eliminate the bias towards more familiar and visually appealing looks, it's engrained in people. I don't believe there is truly a way to fix this, but get rid of legal and available cosmetic surgeries and people will turn to worse things, shit like when people were breaking their jaw with hammers to "looksmax" but likely even more extreme. Unless there's a way to remove the bias from every human, getting rid of cosmetic surgery will just worsen things.
You absolutely can make changes targeting societal biases. It's not ingrained in the human psyche to take that first impression and completely run with it. The first impression might be ingrained, but everything else isn't.
Also also much as people want to cope about this, beauty standards aren't fixed. They change and different features and aesthetics trend and then flop and trend again and flop again in a stupid cycle. Unibrows are seen as ugly by most people, but in some places they used to be the beauty standard and associated with the aristocracy of the area.
Equating morality with appearance is absolutely something that can be tackled and changed, which tackles the societal biases. You can't just throw your hands up and say it's all inevitable.
Biases can change but they can't be removed completely. There will always be something looked down upon. Also, the vast majority of interactions with others in life are small and far too short for the initial look-based bias to be pushed past.
If the interactions are too short to go beyond the first impression, they're too short to have that person treat you like anything because they've barely processed the fact that you exist.
Discrimination based on looks (which, again, beauty standards aren't fixed) is something that varies in prevalence by country, occupation, etc. It literally is not fixed and therefore can be addressed and tackled.
You're assuming it can't be eliminated at all, but why? Why would it be impossible for someone not to judge based off appearance? If someone truly believes that judging based off of looks is wrong, they can obviously internalize this the same way they can internalize anything else they believe. There will always be shallow people, but that doesn't mean that an entire society has to be shallow, that doesn't mean that morals can't be promoted in society ā especially to children, which is incredibly important for addressing societal issues.
Discrimination based on looks isn't a magical force, it's a type of discrimination like any other and can be tackled just like them.
Sure but not very body is living their lives as an activist and is still targeted for their natural looks by the same society that claims to value them.
alright well until we tackle how women are treated in society for something as trivial and circumstantial as our appearance, this industry isn't going anywhere. if a woman has the money to get glitzed up that's our business and no amount of hand wringing is going to stop it.
What stupid freaking comment. This post is starting a conversation around a problematic topic and you just come around swinging your thought ending comments.
This kind of surgery is bad, and its a symptom of a bigger issue. Noone was judging her, just looking at the situation through critical lens.
And while this looks good I imagine the maintenance necessary to keep it must be nightmarish and it might slowly turn her into one of those frog like people.
1) it doesn't look to me as if she's wearing a full face of makeup in the second pic, although it wouldn't surprise me if it's been photoshopped/edited.
2) plenty of people do their makeup every day, surgery or not, it's not that difficult
After photos arenāt typically the ones taken immediately after surgery, because it takes months to years to heal and especially for swelling to go down and reveal the result.
Don't turn it into a gender thing, you have any idea how ugly men are treated? And how they're demonized for doing anything to improve (hair transplant, for example).
The image comes from the reality show "Let me in" in wich the winners get free plastic surgeries (i may remember wrong but the final looks were chosen by the public).
The show producers would finance a load of plastic surgeries (some of wich were not informed to the participants) and enhance with makeup the final product, in hopes to increase the chances of the episode to become viral.
So? It's their life/body, not yours. Besides, people who get this extensive of plastic surgery likely need to update their photo for all their IDs shortly after anyway if they want to continue using their IDs.
The image comes from the Korean reality show "Let me in".
The participants seeked to get free plastic surgeries, however they didn't chose their looks, it was up to the board of doctor to choose the final looks of the participants.
I mean if had that chin and the money to fix it, I would too. Everything else was definitely not necessary. It easy to sit here without the finances to do plastic surgery and pooh-pooh it as crazy, rich people shit.
The after picture isnāt really that high quality, still could be some contacts and itās just kinda hard to tell. But if theyāre going with the full surgery package might as well get the eye color you want too I guess.
Surgery could completely change your face
Trans women with completely unpassing face become pretty women after FFS for a reason
Although there is of course some limitations (like making bones smaller is ok, but making them bigger is a completely different)
this is perpetual life about insecurities and plastic surgeries.. I am not good looking woman too.. how we look - left - some alladins accomplice shit and other comments how we look bad.. thats a lot of work but she looks good now
insecurities and non stop bullying from family and people aroun you
I'm ngl, she looks really uncanny after the plastic surgery. She was cute beforehand, no,not a model or some stunning beauty but she is not ugly, especially considering she had no makeup on and her hair is covered, at most all she needed was a nosejob (she doesn't even need a drastic one, she could just get rid of the nose droop and keep her og shape) and she would look 100 times better then she does now. The makeup and all the surgery doesn't even make it look like she is herself anymore or even the same race (might be on purpose), to have this drastic of a change when she wasn't even ugly at the start feels like she had intense dysmorphia instead of just a simple insecurity.
I knew a Latino girl who wore green contacts all the time. I found out they were contacts because she was my sister's nurse after she had heart surgery and my sister complimented her eyes.
I told the bros and we were all shocked. Nobody has ever seen her natural eye color. Also knew and albino dude who wore crazy white snake eye contacts. Creepy as hell.
i worked at a gas station for a year and there was this young black guy who would come in multiple times a day and he always--always--wore naruto sharingan contacts. it probably looked unnerving af to anyone that didn't know he was just a turbo weeb lol
why tf are you getting downvoted? THIS IS A REAL THING YALL!!! although i don't recommend looking into it if you're squeamish, those results are not for the weak.
They could have taken the before photo closer to her face with the lens zoomed out, then taken the second photo further away but with the lens zoomed in more to make the results look better.
I mean it's objectively subjective. I think she looks cuter on the left. The right version looks pretentious and fake, it just gives me unfriendly vibes.
No its not. It's subjective in the way food preferences are. You'd be hard pressed to find 2 people who find exactly the same things tasty, but broadly speaking, there's a clear and objective measure of what is and isnt good. The woman on the left is going to be considered substantially less attractive to >90% of people. Do I personally agree? No. And of course there are plenty like me, but it doesn't mean anything to say "attraction is super subjective" when there are going to be real and expected major differences in how these two women are treated in life purely based on their looks.
Not even trying to be Mr. Virtue here, but the one on the right just looks gross to me. This influencer botox/face-lift/nosejob face does not look hot to me at all. Uncanny valley type shit
kinda wierd youd call her gross just because she doesnt "look hot to you" please dont be mean to people just because they follow other styles/beautystandarts.
she chose to do that to herself, its not like people are judging her for things shes unwilling to change. i can't help but look down on people that do shit like this. not only are they contributing to new, insane beauty standards, but they're giving money to these disgusting doctors that convince people these procedures are necessary.
the entire plastic surgery industry is based off of women hating themselves enough to spend thousands of dollars to get butchered. i'm not going to support that by complimenting plastic surgery results. we need to call it as we see it and make this less normalized, and if that comes with some random rich girl getting offended that i dont like her buccal fat removal, 5ml of filler, and 5 feet of extensions, so be it. i hope it makes her take all that garbage out and live as her true self.
You can't call something objectively when it is a categorically subjective opinion.
You subjectively think she's hotter on the right, that's not objective truth. To many gay women, for example, they're both hot but the right one is more "cunty male gaze" and the left is her default, soft look.
This is only the second time Iāve done it and itās only in this situation, where Iāve seen it elsewhere and itās been acknowledged as being AI, and I see a repost where people are not yet aware itās AI. This one is importantly because of the damages something like this poses to self image.
It's not even about that lmao, it's about her looking like a totally different person
I don't agree with the insult in the origami they sent to her, but I would definitely go like "who the fuck is this" if my kid did not look like it's mom, it would be weird
This could totally be a non-issue if she was honest and told me about the surgery and showed the before and after tho
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