Pricked, plumped, and puffed to perfection— some say it’s sexy, others call it fillerexia.
A strange phenomenon is happening among young women. Some of them look older than a Real Housewife, but you’ll struggle to find a single wrinkle. Their skin is as smooth as a Madame Tussauds figure, cheeks as plump as Baby Taimur’s. Their pout? Hello, Angelina. While the intention was likely sexy, the caricature-like proportions look neither young nor old. Just strange.
To blame: too much dermal filler, a substance injected into the skin to smooth lines and boost volume. While FDA-approved fillers have been available and used predominantly by women over 40 since 1981, they now have a fan club among those who need them least— women in their 20s.
THE NEW FACE OF FILLER
“The people who are coming to see me for filler now are as young as 19,” says Anne Taylor, MD, a plastic surgeon in Ohio, USA. According to stats from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, filler usage among 20-somethings has spiked by nearly one-third since 2009 to more than 64,000 procedures in 2014. While injections aren’t surgery, they can be painful... and pricey. So what’s the appeal? Celebrities, according to every doctor interviewed for this article. “Girls in my office have repeatedly said, ‘I want lips like Kylie Jenner’s’,” says Norman Rowe, MD, a New York City plastic surgeon.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Cosmopolitan India.
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