“Nothing masks a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” (Sophia Loren, 1934). Nowadays, Thai teenagers are interested in their appearance. Most of them are not satisfied with their self-image and their body. So, they try to change themselves to better in various ways. The one choice is plastic surgery. “A surgery that is dedicated to the reconstruction of facial and body defects and also involved with the enhancement of the appearance of a person through cosmetic surgery” (MedicineNet.com, 2016). It dues to the development of technologies and medical facilities are more efficient than in the past. Moreover, the cost of plastic surgery in Thailand is very cheap and it is an easy way to get access to plastic surgery. So, they lead to the higher rate of plastic surgery among Thai teenagers both girls and boys. The greatest numbers tend to go under the knife is young women. Although the plastic surgery can help the teenagers feel confident in their look, it also has hidden effects that impact on their health, their mind and their body. First of all, the plastic surgery carries the side effect to health. It is true that plastic surgery can change something that teenagers don 't like, but if it is something wrong. They may not ready to admit the bad results. Plastic surgery is clearly dangerous. According to Edwina Rawson, many people act like they do not know the bad effect of plastic surgery and do not fear about the procedure. For example, As Jonathan
In my opinion, plastic surgery will continue to be a serious problem unless we stop plastic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is now so popular that even young, healthy, attractive woman are choosing to be “enhanced”. Dolly Parton, born Dolly Rebecca Parton is a 65 years old from Tennessee, best know for her work in country music. Dolly described her family as Dirt poor. She grew up with 11 siblings 5 sisters and 6 brothers.
Even though teenagers aspire to become “beautiful” like the people displayed throughout the world, society needs to realize imperfections make everyone unique and beautiful. As presented by The Denver Post, “As we seek to defy the limits of natural beauty, Hawthorne’s admonition about obsessing over natural imperfections is even more pertinent today than it was 150 years ago. His tale describes the destructiveness of trying to achieve physical perfection through operations. The protagonist realizes too late the need to accept, rather than erase, minor beauty flaws” (16). Despite the fact that everyone desires to have the perfect body, hair, and face, nobody is capable of looking this perfect.
Nowadays, society is obsessed with the way our body looks because it is now used as a way to portray what is on the inside. The ideal body image is socially designed as the ultimate goal that one can attain in order to fit-in and be acknowledged in today’s society. The image that society has on the “perfect body” that has been gathered through media, ads and culture, is something that most people have started to “idolize” and are setting
15. Should teens be allowed to get plastic surgery without parental consent? This is a tough question. On one hand, the surgery might be pointless and in spur of the moment because the teen wants to look “perfect”. Some parents really do want the best for their kids and they know whether a certain surgery is necessary or not.
In today’s modern culture, almost all forms of popular media play a significant role in bombarding young people, particularly young females, with what happens to be society’s idea of the “ideal body”. This ideal is displayed all throughout different media platforms such as magazine adds, television and social media – the idea of feminine beauty being strictly a flawless thin model. The images the media displays send a distinct message that in order to be beautiful you must look a certain way. This ideal creates and puts pressure on the young female population viewing these images to attempt and be obsessed with obtaining this “ideal body”. In the process of doing so this unrealistic image causes body dissatisfaction, lack of self-confidence
Chung accepted herself the way she looked and learned that the definition of beauty is “one that embraces differences and includes every girl, who can hold her head up, sang ka pul-less and chinky-eyed” (108). She hoped that her awakening about true beauty and acceptance would also help other Asian females, especially her mother realize that they are beautiful just the way God created them (Finding My
The media portrays these unrealistic standards to men and women of how women should look, which suggests that their natural face is not good enough. Unrealistic standards for beauty created by the media is detrimental to girls’ self-esteem because it makes women feel constant external pressure to achieve the “ideal look”, which indicates that their natural appearance is inadequate. There has been an increasing number of women that are dissatisfied with themselves due to constant external pressure to look perfect. YWCA’s “Beauty at Any Cost” discusses this in their article saying that, “The pressure to achieve unrealistic physical beauty is an undercurrent in the lives of virtually all women in the United States, and its steady drumbeat is wreaking havoc on women in ways that far exceed the bounds of their physical selves” (YWCA).
Thirdly, we can discuss the healthy and suitable way to achieve your own personal appearance goals. Fourth, we can change up the media and celebrity culture. By allowing a wider variety of figures into this industry it will allow women around the world to feel comfortable in their own skin. Fifth, we can eliminate the comparison and competition we have with one another to “look the best” and “be the sexier women.” Lastly, and this goes to all women, we must learn to have respect in ourselves and look after ourselves and one another to be beautiful individuals in our own, unique way (Ramsey).
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but society decides that (Kong “Plastic Surgery and Lookism in South Korea”). By creating a “utopian society” where beauty is not recognized, Chiang explores how beauty affects the world. For example, when Tamera removes her calliagnosia, she does not instantly feel beautiful yet. It takes her a while to familiarize herself since she’s truly never been able to appreciate beauty before (Chiang 246). Once Tamera figures out she is beautiful, she tries to win back her ex, Garrett, with her looks.
Men and women nowadays are starting to lose self-confidence in themselves and their body shape, which is negatively impacting the definition of how beauty and body shape are portrayed. “...97% of all women who had participated in a recent poll by Glamour magazine were self-deprecating about their body image at least once during their lives”(Lin 102). Studies have shown that women who occupy most of their time worrying about body image tend to have an eating disorder and distress which impairs the quality of life. Body image issues have recently started to become a problem in today’s society because of social media, magazines, and television.
Today plastic surgery is being embraced by the millions and highly looked upon. Advertisements and media incorporated young, beautiful women to sell the product with fake and flawless women in advertisements, an ideal body is created by the minds of viewers. This causes viewers to do as much as possible involving plastic surgery, to look like the models. For Instance, in 2015 more than 13.5 million women went under the knife by surgeons certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, says the American Society of Plastic Surgeons statistics. The five most popular invasive surgical procedures for women in 2015 were liposuction, breast augmentation, tummy tucks, eyelid surgery and breast lift (ASPS statistics).
In 1998, people did not realize what they were doing to girl’s confidence and ability to feel beautiful in their own skin. They were showing the world what women could now look like through photo shop. For many years this trend continued, fortunately, in the year 2015 everything changed for the
Meaghan Ramsey's TED Talk "Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you" is a powerful speech about low body confidence. Ramsey talks about how society's pressure to be perfect is one of the main reason for young girls' (and boys') low body confidence and how these feelings of low esteem can impact their lives and futures. I chose to analyze this speech because I have experienced low body confidence and I have felt those feelings of low self-esteem. In Meaghan Ramsey's speech "Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you", she discusses how low body confidence is undermining academic achievement, damaging health, and limiting the economic potential of today's youth who are growing up in a world of social media. Ramsey has a strong start to her speech, using a photo and a story about her niece to gain the attention of the audience.
1.2 Objectives of the Research There are two objectives to this report with the first being to explore the advantages of cosmetic surgery and next, to explore the disadvantages of cosmetic surgery. 1.3 Scope of Research Cosmetic surgery and its impact covers multiple facets like culture, religion, economic and many more. However, this report will focus on impact of cosmetic surgery on people in their daily lives especially it covers effect on women, as well as young teenagers. The main focus of this report is to study the pros as well as the cons that cosmetic surgery has brought to people.
All people have reason for what they doing. Nowadays, the problem in people is they didn 't want to listen to explanation they just want to judge and contented for what they see. Taking plastic surgery is not that bad unless you do so. Don 't look only for the negative side of a thing; look also for the positive