Fake scars & beauty conspiracies are the great algorithmic distraction
Dr. Melissa Doft, double board-certified plastic surgeon and founder of Doft Plastic Surgery, says that, while scars still remain undesirable in most beauty arenas, “the addition of deformities and conditions to the beauty industry is a direct response to the over-filtered life that most of us lead”. This, she says, bleeds over into plastic surgery requests. “Plastic surgeons are trained to define beauty through using classic beauty proportions which are often the same proportions that artists have used to delineate beauty throughout the ages,” she says. “The search for uniqueness challenges our beauty ideals and thus, [our] surgical goals.” The most common requests, nowadays, she says, are to keep what were once imperfections post-surgery: a small hump during a rhinoplasty, leaving a mole or keeping the remnants of heavy eyelids in an upper blepharoplasty (more commonly known as an eyelid lift).