To think that the trend for buccal fat removal is worse than filler

[znaika]

I understand the immense pressure on young women in particular to look beautiful. It is pervasive and contributes to poor emotional health. However the never ending additions to treatments just make me feel sooo uncomfortable and sad.
The latest is buccal fat removal which involves sucking out the fat from inside a young women's face and with zygoma fillers they can create the illusion of high cheek bones.
Something so barbaric about it and I can see it everywhere. When will this shit end. How as women can we draw a line under more and more absurd treatments to make us "beautiful". It just feels never-ending...

I think when you’re slagging off someone way way more attractive than you fhen you need to recognise you’re maybe being a twat,

But we don't know what that poster looks like, beauty is subjective.

Ain’t no one paying you that much to model. Right?

I'm not sure she's getting paid what with all her trolling.

I used to model, many of us look a bit odd in real life. The proportions work better on camera often. I think I look better now but am far too "big" & boring now to model.

I remember reading about a surgery to create a heart shaped face that included breaking the jaw and lots of other bones in the face. I think you need to suck your food up through a straw for months after. I couldn’t imagine wanting my face to change badly enough to go through some of the stuff young people do at the moment.

Whether you think chirssy is attractive or not is subjective but calling her looks odd is bitchy and unacceptable especially when the people who do it can only prey to look that good

See that's the point, not everyone would agree she looks that good. I personally thought she was very pretty in her early fame days but she looks like a different person now.

@Kanaloa several teeth come out too 😬. It’s to create a pointy pixie-like chin.

😢

It’s quite horrific when you think about it. I have unfortunately had to have a fair bit of surgery (all for health reasons) and each time I feel quite upset beforehand, thinking I wish I could be well all the time and not need to go through this.

And then you think there are people going through something like that by choice, and I wonder how you must feel making that decision. I didn’t know you also needed to lose teeth but that makes sense, I can’t actually remember the full thing of it but remember thinking it seemed barbaric.

It's interesting because naturally beautiful women are now seen as more and more average if they don't have procedures done because so many women are having things done. So to be beautiful everyone is starting to look the bloody same!!

So to be beautiful everyone is starting to look the bloody same!!

Yep homogeneous which isn't beauty at all

I’m one of the natural high cheek boned people. Let me have my day enjoying the idea that this particular feature is sought after.

Really though I think it’s a bit of an ageing feature. Give me a nice plump baby face. Grass is always greener right?

@MakingM2

That sounds both painful and gross.

I’m glad I’m old. All we had to worry about was buying the right lip balm from Body Shop. I can’t remember a single teen or twenties friend injecting themselves or having fillers and whatnot.

Millennials seemed to suddenly have mass access to cosmetic procedures and constant feeds from social media.

Makes you wonder about future generations. Bio-hacking in the garage and bio-engineering on the high street?

It will be normal for them too, just like lip balm from Body Shop was for me and my friends. Just a damn sight more painful!

Millennials are 26-40 now. This is Gen Z for the most part...

I had no idea what this was so looked on google images.

The intent is to look older then? Why?

Then when they get older, they want fillers injected in where they had the buccal fat removed, yes?

There has to be the basis for a Black Mirror episode in here somewhere. They 've explored developments in technology and how those might interact with human psychology in great depth, but nothing on the obsession with face/body modification.

My pitch: everyone gets hooked on a virtual reality game where you can pay to modify your avatar's body and facial features. There are no limits, so beauty ideals grow increasingly extreme and grotesque. There's also a growing class divide in the game, as rich people rapidly 'morph' into what is effectively a different species. Whenever they do take a break from the game, real faces and bodies just look grotesque to them and they can no longer function in society - so the high flyers in the game become a new underclass in the real world.

@Classica

The fox eye lift seems to be a real craze too. I think that one looks weird af. But apparently it wears off quite quickly.

They look like Vulcans off Star Trek.

Just googled. Can't see any difference whatsoever. I'd question the ethics of medics who would carry this out. Does the fat even grow back? It's normal to be fuller cheeked when you are younger (I see it as "20s puppy fat" but as you age you lose it and can look a bit gaunt if you're on the thinner side. I sincerely hope the people who have it done in their 20s don't look like Skeletor when they get to their mid 40s.