He has touched up his nose, his mouth, his cheekbones. She is unrecognizable, totally transformed. What do you see in the mirror? Do you finally like it? Now she will face every day an image that is not hers, the unknown of what it would be like if she had not undergone surgery. She will have to show her face for an ill-considered decision.
More and more young people are undergoing aesthetic treatments. The average age of the first intervention has gone from 35 years to 20. We have never been so aware of our physique. When taking a selfie, in the video call window. And they want to be like with filters, huge eyes, full lips, manga drawings, dolls.
Previous generations also suffered from this pressure, especially women. The question is: once you start, when do you stop? There is no limit, there is no moment in which you stop and think: “That's it, there is nothing more to correct.” You can still get closer to perfection, to your ideal of beauty. This business applies the same slogan of “more is better” that tourism, macro farms, excessive construction and any system that makes money use, even if unlimited growth is unsustainable.
Because, yes, when you are 50 you will look 35; At 60 your features will be those of someone 45; at 70, from 58. But you will continue to age, even if it seems less. The signature of whoever operated on you is in every detail that turns your face into one of many others outlined by the same pattern. Hiding your age, your stress and your tiredness doesn't mean they aren't there.
I read that several celebrities regret having entered the spiral of aesthetic interventions because they feel they have lost a part of themselves. Before distorting such an identity aspect, we should ask ourselves if that is really the change we want to make. But the touch-ups are already the mirror of the soul of this society.
