"... her classmates still made fun of her appearance. 'Some boys in my class would always laugh at me: They’d call me "tiny eyes,"' she says. After the surgery, reactions were different. Her university teachers liked her, despite giving her failing grades in some classes. Whenever she was lifting heavy luggage, someone would help. 'People always display better attitudes and more patience to prettier people,' Fan says... Plastic surgeon Shi Chengfang [says] that since about 2010, the 'internet celebrity face' has been extremely popular among younger customers. (Patients who are over 35 years old prefer anti-aging surgeries for a more natural look.) But, he says, since 2016, fatigue with the abundance of such
wanghong faces in the entertainment industry has given rise to a more diverse range of 'templates,' such as the 'supermodel face,' with longer eyes and a more chiseled jawline, or the 'world-weary face,' with more droopy eyes and an aloof look."
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"A Surgically Sculpted Face, the Newest Back-to-School Necessity/More younger Chinese opt for plastic surgery, but yesterday's fresh faces are already looking stale" (Sixth Tone).
"Why do people in South Korea think that eye bag is cute?" somebody asked at Quora and got this answer (click to enlarge and clarify):
It's interesting to think of people really loving this facial feature that I'd never thought of as attractive. It does look right on a baby, but then so do toothless gums. It suggests that one never needs plastic surgery, just a different point of view. Whatever you have, decide that it's good. Like the "world-weary face." If you were really world-weary, you wouldn't trouble yourself with plastic surgery, so to get plastic surgery to arrive at a world-weary face is funny.
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“Doctor, give me Resting Bitch Face.”
As much as Americans are believed to be beauty obsessed and image conscious, we do not hold a candle to East Asians. South Koreans have more plastic surgery per capita than any other country in the world. Surgeries on the epicanthic fold for larger eyes is extremely popular, and the size of one's eyes in South Korea is a huge marker of one's beauty status. It actually goes in fads when some celebrities with narrow eyes who have not undergone surgery get some fame or notoriety. The pop idol factory run by Korean entertainment industries send all of their trainees in for plastic surgery. Photos have to be included on resumes and be prepared for questions on your hometown and family background.
Quite the transformation.
Does Trump have "lying silkworms"? I was going to say yes, but I think the answer is no. You need a puffy lower eyelid, not a filled out area below the lower eyelid. On Trump, the whole area is puffy, and I think that's eye bags, not what you see on babies.
Many Chinese cosmetic-surgery clients are influenced by K-pop and Korean beauty standards.
Which in turn was influenced by J-Pop.
Which was influenced by manga/anime art style of big eyes, small mouth, smooth faces.
Which was influenced by old Walt Disney cartoons.
" 'People always display better attitudes and more patience to prettier people,' Fan says... "
Well, it sure worked for JFK and Obama.
There's a scene in the movie "It's Complicated" where Steve Martin meets Meryl Streep's ex-husband, Alec Baldwin, after they smoked a joint.
Tell me if you think they used prosthetics to give Steve Martin so-called "Chinese Eyes".
"Once I got stoned and stared into a mirror for two hours until I saw someone who looked Chinese. But I think it was just me squinting."
-Albert Brooks, Defending Your Life
"Lying silkworm" sounds like an insulting epithet in the DPRNK style.
(e.g. http://nk-news.net/extras/insult_generator.php)
I'm gonna to start using it and see if I can create a meme.
I think Super Model Face is Resting Bitch Face.
I go with Vague Face.
I love the matter of fact acceptance of the way things are and the true nature of ambition: one of the kids says at the end of the article that if a woman is willing to do the hard work of looking pretty, she will work harder in other arenas and find more success.
In international beauty pageants the winners & high performers, no matter what ethnic origins they may have, all tend to look more alike than do the average people from their respective countries. That is, "beauty" apparently has an objective standard that transcends race. Often one would be hard put to identify any winner's country of origin without external clues, the contestants look so much alike.
I think she was prettier before.
The Lying Silkworms would be a great name for a rock and roll band!
I’m not going to presume I can make sense of Asian beauty standards from outside the culture. For example, I’ve always been mystified that anime eyes look nothing like Asian eyes. Is it a realistic (though idealized) representation of how Asians perceive their own eyes, or aspirational?
Every time you try to Google stuff that's weird but interesting, you get a page about a band. Like The Sabres of Paradise, for one.
She looks like anime. Maybe that's the goal.
The Lying Silkworms would be a great name for a rock and roll band!
Or Democrat candidates.
OMG, she was way cuter before.
Wasn't this a 'Twilight Zone' episode?
mockturtle-- I thought the same thing!
Hopefully she will not be menaced by space monsters.
Look at Kim's hair when evaluating Korean styles.
RobinGoodfellow said...
The Lying Silkworms would be a great name for a rock and roll band!
You didn't see them open for Iron Butterfly?
Resting Bitch Face? I thought it was Bitchy Resting Face.
Hopefully this kind of success story will inspire many more people to get cosmetic surgery. This will confirm that the only reason for their insecurities and lack of success is that they are ugly and a bit of plastic surgery can fix that.
Once people take care of this little thing, everything will be perfect.
Hmm. No one is going to mention Brazil, Old Prosperous Venezuela or Columbia?
All of them have very vibrant plastic surgery industries which I would say give them at least a pretty fair shot against East Asia.
Then again, the surgeries in South America 'seem' to be more body image (belly fat, boobs and butts) and less face.
Thailand, for example, is OBSESSED with plastic surgery on the nose: getting rid of that wide, flat full nose for something 'higher'. (Europeans are called 'Long Noses').
Getting a boob job is...rare unless you are getting a job dancing on tables, or apparently getting a job as a Senator in Arizona, but the moral equivalence of these jobs is pretty apparent.
But here is some data from 2014 (a bit old)
Unites States 1.094.0 5.950
Brazil 905.1 5.024
China 415.1 2.000
First number is thousands of surgeries and the second is number of thousands of Plastic Surgeons.
I wonder if China has taken the lead.
Reading into the article, the number of plastic surgeons had multiplied by 10 in China.
I was going to make snarky comments about Feminists, but honestly, reading the thing, the parents are probably MORE against Plastic Surgery than American parents. Many schools have very strict uniform and haircut practices.
So it is astonishing to me that a) the kids have this money, and b) that they are able to fight their way into getting their way.
But Chen, short dark and broad faced, has totally transformed her life. It is hard to argue that factually, at least without bringing Feminist religion and mores into the mix (whew! I knew I could shoe horn them in)
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