Botox and fillers are increasingly popular. How do we talk about them? : Npr

Plastic surgery rates have increased in recent years and minimally invasive procedures such as filling and botox are even more popular. It is also evident in the social media that some (including plastic surgeons) are very comfortable to specify and comment on other people’s faces, what procedures they could have … and if they look abused.

But what is the difference between “good” work and “bad” work? And how do we talk about the rise of plastic surgery without eliminating people for their choices?

On Has passed a minuteThe guest Ba Parker discusses the audience of beauty culture with Jessica DefinessA beauty journalist, advice columnist at The guardianand writer of “The Review of Beauty” Ubsack, and Joan Summersentertainment author at Paper and his co-icedness Eat free podcast.

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What is the difference between “good” work and “bad” work?

Joan Summers: I think the “good” work is the job that is delicate, invisible and complies with the aesthetic model that Hollywood sets in people. I think the “bad” work is considered a confrontation or the kind of requirements you see. And to want to be beautiful is bad, to be of course beautiful is good. It is as if we can see that they have tried beauty and failed in it in our eyes, which makes it bad. If you want beauty, it must also be an invisible desire, or a desire that you can keep hidden.

Jessica Defino: What I will add to this is that I think this construct of “good” work against “bad” work really emphasizes the moral consequences of beauty. Mean, [a] Excellent example of pop culture was recently, [some people] Anne Hathaway’s praise and saying, “So you get older when you are not problematic”, as if you are a good person guarantees you well. These stupid moral crises are truly embedded in society. And we see it in the very clear moral language of “good” work and “bad” work.

How do we balance not comment on people’s bodies in a rude or discoloration, while still talking about the effects of these processes on culture?

Jessica Defino: I think there is a way to talk about what’s going on with our desire for beauty right now, without necessarily distinguishing a specific celebrity because it affects everyone. I like to refer to what is happening as aesthetic inflation. So is the normalization of injectable surgery, extreme skin care routines over the last decade that has shifted the basic beauty model for everyone. This is the model of beauty we judge against. It affects the way we deal with, affects employment opportunities. And I think it’s really dangerous to reject it like, “Oh, you can’t comment on someone’s body.” Like these standards everyone affects everyone.

After all, what does it mean that taking processes, even minimally, is becoming more and more common? And how do we talk about it?

Jessica Defino: When I talk about it, I try not to necessarily focus on personal choice and ask instead, why many people decide to make these very similar personal choices? And personal preferences are shaped by the policy of culture in which we live. Of course many women prefer to look younger right now. I would not necessarily say that a personal preference, such as a rational reaction to existence of a deep age, sexist society. So, personally, I am more interested in highlighting these conditions that lead to these choices and not praising or policing anyone’s choice of cosmetic surgery.

Joan Summers: Yes, as someone with what could probably be described as extensive plastic surgical work, I think we live in a culture that is over -to -individual choice and giving good or bad policy to what aesthetics can mean for us. And [it] It focuses less on people who enrich themselves from these processes and [who] They are not always honest about what they could make you long -term. Whether it is liposuction scars, the breast growth disease from the presence of implants, the effect of Juvéderm on your face after repeated injections for a long time – the surgeons themselves make so much money from these procedures. I find it much more worrying than the idea that a bunch of young women 20 years old takes the processes in the first place.

Ba Parker: Right – obviously we are not in the room with providers and they do not know what they say to patients, but we have seen some reports of some patients with adverse reactions and say they were completely surprised by some of the side effects.

Jessica Defino: And I would also like to add to this, as in addition to possible bodily harm or risks of surgery, injectable or even local products, there are so many consequences for mental health to be examined. We have so many studies, so many facts that show us that beauty patterns are linked to the stress associated with appearance, depression, disturbed food. You know, we take them for a push of trust. But what are the long -term consequences for gaining your trust or self -esteem from an injectable that you need to continue to take and take and take, or a surgery that can go wrong?