Are selfies and video conferences fueling the beauty craze? Social media and photo filters: Are selfies and video conferences fueling the beauty craze?
On social media, bigger eyes and smoother cheeks aren’t a problem thanks to photo enhancements. However, according to plastic surgeons, more and more young people are striving to look like this even without the use of technology. Adults, on the other hand, develop new desires for beauty as a result of the pandemic.
Is the beauty craze fueled by selfies and video conferencing?
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Werner Mang has been fulfilling beauty wishes for over 30 years. However, according to the head of the Bodensee Clinic for Plastic Surgery in Lindau, he is pissing off more and more young patients. “I had another 13 year old girl here this morning who wanted Kylie Jenner’s nose.”
“This is a sick development. The 71-year-old, who has already repaired Götz George’s nose, believes: “Mark Zuckerberg created monsters.”
As a driver of a new beauty craze among young people, social media and photo filters? Alexander Hilpert, plastic surgeon, sees this as a potentially dangerous trend. “Those who frequently post pictures of themselves also want to look better,” says the 56-year-old, who works in Duisburg and Düsseldorf. “That has increased dramatically in recent years, and these demands are now coming in daily.”
The German Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (DGPC) has no reliable data on this. In its 2020 annual statistics, it only lists the interventions actually carried out and the reasons for them, but not the rejected applications. As a result, only 2.3 percent of patients specified digitally modified templates of themselves as a goal, 11.7 percent fewer than in the previous year.
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According to Hilpert, this number is related to Corona. “I firmly expect that these inquiries will increase again.” After all, young people are online more often than before during the pandemic. Hilpert points out: “People there only see nicely transformed role models.” “And when users imitate dances on Tiktok, they often want to look like them.”
According to a JIM study published at the end of last year, young people use Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok and other social media platforms more frequently in the 2020 pandemic year than in the previous year. Accordingly, the number of young people who stated that they used Tiktok at least several times a week rose by 19 percent. The software was particularly popular with 12 to 15 year olds.
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