In Sexual Personae, American academic and social critic Camille Paglia discusses the thought of contemporary society as “a synthetic construction, a defense against nature’s power.” One manifestation of this revolt and resistance against nature is our desire to defy aging.

It’s not our fault we were born right into a brainwashed civilization that’s continuously telling women to be prettier, skinnier, and look younger, but we do have the facility to seek out our beauty inside ourselves slightly than to hunt it in the following aesthetic treatment. Beauty has turn out to be a give attention to our faces and bodies slightly than our entire being. The outcomes of this are horrendous; even teenage girls are spending an immense amount of energy pursuing anti-aging remedies, and girls are falling right into a perpetual cycle of altering their features through cosmetic means.

In 2022, there was a baby botox boom amongst Gen Z and millennials to forestall “premature aging.” Dermal filler is also having its heyday. In the identical 12 months, the worldwide dermal filler market size was estimated to be around 5.5 billion dollars. While there’s little doubt that girls – and men – are still flocking to clinics to cut back their smile lines, crow’s feet, and brow wrinkles, a growing variety of persons are speaking out against fillers.

What Are Fillers Anyway?

Before we proceed, let’s briefly go over what dermal fillers are. Fillers are injected into the skin for added volume to lift the looks of lines. They ensure features more pronounced, like your nose or jaws. They’re behind the large, full pout in celebrities and might smooth out wrinkles in your face. 

There are 4 different sorts of fillers: hyaluronic acid (HA), a sugar present in the body; calcium hydroxylapatite, a mineral of bone; and poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA), which is made out of synthetic materials.

Why Women Are Done with Fillers

I’ve seen plenty of girls on social media who’ve stopped getting fillers, and there are lots of the explanation why. Snitchery on YouTube, for instance, said she dropped them after getting unwanted side effects like lumps and puffiness across the injection sites. She also noted how fillers cost anywhere from $600 to $800 per syringe.

As with every treatment or surgical operation, there’s also the danger of getting botched results. There are groups on Facebook comprised of individuals sharing their horror stories of cosmetic treatments. “Botched Fillers & Hyaluribdase Damage Support Group” has over 8,000 members, while “Botched Botox and Flawed Fillers” boasts 25,000.

Fillers Can Migrate

Filler migration is strictly what it appears like: Filler intentionally injected in a single area moves or migrates to a different location. We see this loads in women who received multiple injections to their lips. Take Kylie Jenner, for instance:

The causes of filler migration can vary. Sometimes, it’s on account of incorrect dosages. Different fillers even have different properties, so some are more vulnerable to migration depending on their viscosity. “Every aesthetic injector has an arsenal of products with different composition properties and viscosities to make use of, and it’s imperative they know what products to make use of and where to make use of them,” board-certified facial plastic surgeon Jason Diamond tells Allure.

Dissolving Your Fillers Can Be a Nightmare

There’s excellent news and there is bad news in case your filler migrates. The excellent news is that you may dissolve it – the bad news is that dissolving them could make you look older. Fillers are dissolved through injections of an enzyme called hyaluronidase, which breaks down HA. According to Dazed Digital, a girl from certainly one of the Facebook groups described how her lips looked smaller and appeared more wrinkled after getting her fillers dissolved.

“I feel very depressed,” she confessed. “Knowing that I’ll never get my old lips back is heartbreaking, especially because while you get lip fillers done, you get reassured [by injectors] that if you happen to don’t just like the final result you may all the time get them dissolved and they’re going to look similar to before. With a view to eliminate the lip wrinkles, I’m going to must get them redone, which implies I’m now depending on getting lip filler. One small decision that I made to get my lips filled has now ruined my life. I carry on looking back at my old pictures and wishing I just had my old lips back.” Luckily, this does not occur to everyone who opts to dissolve their fillers, and the outcomes often leave you looking higher and more natural.

Fillers Can Stick Around for a Long Time

There’s one other issue, though. Not everyone who received fillers might get them dissolved because they’re supposed to be temporary and may dissolve naturally after 6-24 months – but reports state otherwise. One woman from the UK named Alice Hart-Davis got an MRI scan and located that her fillers of 20 years had migrated throughout her face. “From my research, particularly within the mid-face and across the eyes, filler seems to last loads longer than we initially expected,” aesthetic radiologist Dr. Mobin Master told The Daily Mail.

Fillers Can Make You Look Abnormal 

Last week, I wrote in regards to the “stink face” appearance in women who received quite a few cosmetic treatments. Once I asked doctors what was responsible for this strange appearance, their theory pointed to fillers. You may examine that here.

Besides abnormal results just like the dreaded pillow and stink face, fillers might actually make you look older. I won’t name anyone out of respect, but some influencers of their early 20s receive Botox and fillers, they usually leave their audience stunned after they reveal their age. A few of you may be asking, “How could Botox and fillers make you look older when it’s speculated to do the alternative?” Well, the ladies who received these treatments, at the least previously several a long time, were typically more mature. It’s normal for us to see women over 40 with a frozen and filled look, so after we see that very same appearance in others, we would routinely assume they’re older.

Closing Thoughts

Pursuing the Instagram-filtered look often comes with pitfalls. Because of social media, we’re witnessing women reevaluating their decisions regarding certain cosmetic procedures and enhancements, each financially and emotionally. For my part, loads of young women who get them don’t need them and are operating largely from insecurity. While society tells us we’re allowed to change our faces nonetheless we wish, we want to seek out balance in the sweetness culture and dissuade a few of them from making decisions they could regret.

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