Secret Cabinets, Dangerous Side Effects, Influencer Promotion… Report by Restricted zone about the abuse of cosmetic surgery among young people caused strong reactions on social networks.
“It used to be that people over 50 turned to Botox or scalpels to blur the effects of time. Now, from the age of 20, girls and boys are turning to cosmetic surgery in search of the perfect figure,” says Ophelie Meunier in the foreword to the new issue of the magazine. Restricted zone aired on M6 on Sunday 15 January. In this revealing episode (sensitive souls refrain), the host invites us to dive into the heart of the “scandalous excesses” of the younger generation’s medicine and cosmetic surgery. Journalists specifically investigated the dangers of the spread of addiction, extreme practices or secret practices that cast a shadow over the beauty industry.
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The report takes us to meet some young adults who are “ready to change things up and achieve the perfect body.” For example, we meet 21-year-old Robin, introduced as an “influencer” who has already undergone four cosmetic surgeries and is about to benefit from another in a “partnership” with a French surgeon practicing in Dubai (this type of partnership is prohibited in France, but not in this city in the United Arab Emirates where the practice is common). The content creator is honoring her end of the bargain by documenting every step of her new upper body liposuction on her social media, where she has over a million followers.
The investigation is also interested in the progress of 16-year-old Luna. A teenager is recommended by his parents to have a rhinoplasty, because of which he feels “shame” and “sadness” about his nose. During the operation of the minor, which we witness thanks to the video extracts, an additional person is present in the block. He is neither a nurse nor an anesthesiologist. his mission is to capture images used on the cosmetic surgeon’s Instagram and TikTok feeds in full action (remember, doctors are not allowed to advertise).
Dangerous practice
Then the level goes up a notch. We were introduced to 27-year-old Chloe, who has already had breast augmentation and now wants to lift her butt using the “Brazilian butt lift” method. Popularized especially by the Kardashian sisters, this highly fashionable procedure, which consists of suctioning fat from other areas of the body and re-injecting it into each buttock, is a lot less glamorous than it sounds. Indeed, “BBL” has been widely criticized by experts because it involves a high risk of causing fat embolism.
Sherin’s transformation is even more impressive. The 22-year-old girl changed the color of her eyes from brown to green through keratopigmentation. And this despite the potentially dangerous and irreversible side effects, so much so that this extremely rare corneal tattoo has only been performed on 1,000 people in France. Some doctors risk it because of possible complications, such as night vision impairment or cataracts (clouding of the lens). “We don’t have a significant decline,” cautions Dr. Florent Constantini, a member of the National Ophthalmological Society, in this report, detailing that he still “has no idea what the complications will be at age 25, 30, or 40.”
Finally, the most remarkable, of course, are these sequences immersed in “secret cabinets” where “wild” injections are performed by “estheticians” at half the price of the average price of really qualified doctors. “We heal patients with disasters, from whom we had to cut off a piece of a lip or a nose. Or others in whom we had to remove skin from the forehead or nose because of the presence of necrosis,” warns Dr. Adele Luafi, president of the National Society of Cosmetic Surgery in this report.
At the end of the documentary, the dermatologist confirms that “dysmorphophobias are more and more common among young people”, particularly because of the variety of images spread on social networks. “That [leur] gives unattainable standards of beauty,” laments the doctor, who is known by the pseudonym “DermatoDrey” on YouTube. The expert also notes that the arrests due to the Covid-19 epidemic, which led to the emergence of video conferences, affected self-esteem. Witness the confessions of 27-year-old Ines, a home hairstylist, who received hyaluronic acid injections to resemble her screen-filtered face. Or Melanie, a former reality TV contestant who wants to “un-inject” her mouth after abusing magnifying glass abuse procedures.
Strong reactions
All these revelations failed to make Internet users react strongly on social networks, challenging or even revolting against these images. “Zone Interdite raised a real issue. Young people are really concerned with self-determination these days… Social media has messed with their brains in a disturbing way…” one person wrote on Twitter. “This minimization of aesthetic surgery is still shocking”, “We walk with our heads”, other Internet users are also upset.
People also highlight the economic scale of these conversion projects and call for certain practitioners to be held accountable; “They will risk 7,500 euros to lose their sight to change their eye color, but they are not ashamed of these surgeons”, “130”. € to be injected with a product you don’t know, by people who know nothing about anatomy and can inject it into your blood system,” “You’re 16 and your parents have a loan for the surgery. I’m hallucinating,” “Really shocked by this report. Honestly, you have to be very careful and it’s better to go to a real doctor, even if it’s expensive,” we can still read in the comments. A scourge that French surgeons themselves had been regularly denouncing for several years.
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Source: Le Figaro
