Plastic Surgery Beast

Is Plastic Surgery Transform Beast to Beauty or Beauty to Beast?

‘Human Ken Doll’ Rodrigo Alves, who has conducted nearly 50 reconstructive surgeries, recently claimed that he could not stop going under knife due to the

‘Domino effects’ of plastic surgery even though he had difficulty in breathing. Although he now has thousands of followers in twitter and become as famous as celebrity, the reason for him to be so popular is mainly because of his unnatural facial expressions. Maybe many of us are mocking at his ‘poker face’ and teasing him as a fool. However, since plastic surgery is a global phenomenon, it raises a deeply worth-thinking question in our society: Is plastic surgery really help people who want to enhance facial attractiveness

In fact, South Korea is a well-known perfectionistic country, as well as the kingdom of plastic surgery - many of the K-pop stars have committed that they had undergone several surgeries, like double-eyelids surgery, eye-widening operation, rhinoplasty, in order keep their images as perfect as possible. Under the idol’s admiration created by the local entertainment companies and social media, Korean teenagers are so obsessed with the flawless faces of the K-pop idols that leads to the cosmetic surgery epidemic in South Korea. ‘Human Form’ - Korean body horror film illustrates a terrifying culture of plastic surgery in South Korea. Unsurprisingly, the song has not only aroused awareness in South Korea, but also triggered intensive discussions in the whole world. In 2015, there are over 1,156,000 cases of cosmetic operations in

In reality, there are lots of cases that they cannot resist of doing surgeries just like Rodrigo Alves in order to strive for perfection. In 2015, Rodrigo Alves was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder, a kind of mental disorder, in which he could not accept any flaws in his face. Another extreme case of the mental addiction in cosmetic surgery- Hang Mioku, who used to be a famous model in South Korea, insisted of undergoing plastic surgery in order to improve her facial features. After being suspicious of having psychological addiction, many surgeons refused to have injection on her face but she did not give up. Instead, she bought silicone from black market and inject it by herself. Soon after the running out of silicone, she directly injected cooking oil on her face. Her face became swollen and extremely terrible. Ironically, her madness and obsession eventually turned herself both physically and mentally into a