The “surgical look”, revealing the physical injunctions made to women – Liberation

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–In the United States, some celebrities make excessive use of cosmetic surgery to look like Snapchat or Instagram filters. But these smooth faces reveal an insecurity and a fragility linked to the injunctions made to the physique of women.–

Madonna hasn’t been talked about so much in ages. The singer, who likes nothing so much as making headlines for forty years, still manages to arouse the excitement of the general public. It is once again his appearance that we comment a lot these days. The Madonna has had so much recourse to cosmetic surgery that we would give her just twenty years old, by far.

Face smoothed by the scalpel

She assumes a surgical look which gives the impression of facing a “filter woman”, such as those Instagram and Snapchat have popularized. This “surgical look”, more popular in the United States than in France, is almost claimed by the entire Kardashian clan, who do not hesitate to advertise their various surgeons on social networks. The influence of Kim or Khloé K., or of a reality TV figure like Maeva Ghennam, is clearly visible in the street where callipyge physique is very popular.

To return to Madonna, we feel the same kind of trouble with Nicole Kidman, whose face has lost naturalness, smoothed by the scalpel. It doesn’t take anything away from her talent as an actress, but it seriously disturbed our gaze, especially when watching Being the Ricardos, which she shares with Javier Bardem. The artist Maurizio Cattelan and the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari have also played with this effect on …

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