Modern spectacles are impressive in a special way. For example, the first row of couture gorges in Paris can become such. In fact, clothes are the embodiment of the fantasy of femininity, created with extraterrestrial precision, because of the price or for some other reason – it does not matter. On the other side are the clients: also demonstrating femininity and fantasy. Did you imagine the picture? The first line is the modern face of beauty: nothing shows her changing nature as extreme as a room full of the richest women in the world.
Cosmetic surgery is called to use the scalpel to “retract” the sagging skin, to make our face finer, the contour – tighter. The women in question in the room in our picture are tentatively called “social X-rays”. This concept was introduced in the 1980s of the last century and it means a group of people/women for whom surgical facelift is an important sign of their status. By the mid-2000s, doctors began to realize that what took away from the youth of our vision was the loss of volume, and turned to look for ways to restore the volume of our face. Fillers have found a place here: they literally inject youthful volume and density into the face. Women who have enthusiastically embraced what the beauty industry calls “volume” are right at the forefront of couture fashion shows. You know them immediately – skin with a perfect texture, tight contour, juicy lips, raised breasts on otherwise slender silhouettes.
Different generations already differ in different aesthetic interventions.
One of Europe’s most renowned cosmetic surgeons, Dr. Jean-Louis Seba, says: “Surgery is getting old badly!” patients for this procedure were mostly over 50 years old. But the industry’s progress since then has been significant. The development of science “gave” an entirely new arsenal of aesthetic weapons: Botox, collagen fillers, hyaluronic acid, treatment with fat transport, injection of plasma and growth factors, laser against pigmentation, radiofrequency tightening, red LED light for lightening, ultra facial muscle contraction therapy – they all slow down or delay invasive surgery. Today, the products are much more sophisticated and offer not only better results, but also finer interventions. The very understanding of facial aging has changed.
Modern plastic surgeons have also increased their interest in non-surgical rejuvenation methods and techniques – they themselves do not want to cut us. Of course, there are some things that aesthetic medicine would find difficult to achieve, but it is more important what its progress is in everything else.
The main change in recent years is the tendency to fill the volumes on the face. More and more often we hear: “You don’t have a filler? No way!”. Hyaluronic acid injections restore the proportions and symmetry of the face, reshape the jawline and lift the cheekbones. These interventions are usually combined with Botox plus a cocktail of laser treatments to improve skin tone, texture, and elasticity. For all this, however, you need to trust your doctor: if he is highly qualified, he will usually make subtle interventions that will really make you a younger version of yourself. It’s as if you see your face in the mirror after two weeks of rest and about 12 hours of sleep.
Of course, if you use such aesthetic procedures, it means that you are committed to the discipline. They take time, energy, and money. But doctors call it “proactive maintenance” – a regular visit to procedures every few months. In addition, you need to have a developed self-awareness to know when to stop. The main thing that is required is a good assessment of the amount of intervention and taste. A person who does not look younger, but “touched” does not fit into the modern understanding of beauty. “Excessive” is subjective. This made people much more paranoid about trying not to be touched. Today, women want to look fresher, not different. Over 90% of them don’t really want to change. Aesthetic medicine today helps us look better, not weird.
