Would I go under the knife for beauty? no

Of course, I saw my friend, let’s call her Mona, on her social networks during her stay in America. Of course I’ve seen her get more and more wrinkle-free, her lips fuller, her silhouette more and more slim. I thought those were filters. Now I try not to stare at her. “You look good,” she says. I have no idea what to say. “You too.” I lie. “Somehow different.” “Yes, we’re all getting older,” she says with a smile. At least she’s trying, I think. Yes, we are getting older – at least the parts of us that we don’t let optimize.

According to the company Swiss Plastic Surgery, about 90,000 cosmetic procedures are performed in Switzerland every year. 85 percent of customers are women. At the forefront of procedures are breast augmentations, liposuction and blepharoplasty. The non-surgical procedures are injections of botox and hyaluronic acid, followed by non-surgical fat reduction.

It’s not like I don’t stand in front of the mirror in the morning and say “Oh my God!” think. I see dark circles under the eyes, wrinkles, the beginnings of bags under the eyes. And I pay very, very close attention to my eyelids. Droopy eyelids run in my father’s family. And if at some point I look at the world as a Shar-Pei dog, I would honestly flirt (!) with the idea of ​​surgically eliminating it.

Back to Mona. At some point her daughter, who has just turned twenty, joins us. I don’t know where to look first – at her lips or at her breasts. Four years ago, when the family moved across the pond, Kira—let’s call her that—was a very pretty teenager who, in my opinion, needed no optimization at all. While her temporary homeland certainly plays a role — the United States is the world’s most popular place for cosmetic procedures, with nearly 15 percent of all beauty surgeries taking place there, according to statistics — it’s far from an American phenomenon. Or am I the only one who feels like every third face has lip injections when I walk down Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich?

Somehow I still understand Mona. Aging sucks, and the temptation to fight this process, at least on the outside, is great. Frankly, I don’t understand Kira at all. I’m already shaking my head at the false eyelashes and fingernails my 18-year-old daughter is using. Knowing that this is still sacred. Although the average age for beauty treatments is currently rising (more than 42 years), the 18 to 30-year-olds make up the largest share. What is also exciting is what cosmetic surgeons say in interviews: Patients no longer come up with pictures of a celebrity whose nose or lips they want, as they used to, but with their own selfies – filtered beyond recognition. The scalpel is increasingly fulfilling a new purpose: it should make you look the same in real life as on Instagram and Co.

No, I didn’t ask Mona or Kira about their visual tweaks. Because I didn’t know how. At the same time, I marvel at her as well as myself. Why don’t I ask? Why don’t they say anything? When we have a new dress, we proudly show it off. Why do you want new lips, but want everyone to think you’ve always had lips like that (as if everyone you knew was blind)? Bit weird, isn’t it? In any case, I intend to proudly announce it to the whole world if I really ever get my doggie eyes lifted. Then nobody has to ask, nobody has to whisper – and nobody has to write about it. Except myself.

How do you see that with cosmetic procedures? Do you have? Would you? Why not)? I look forward to your comments.

Source: Blick