There’s a meme that circulates every once in a while, in a tweet or on a t-shirt. It reads: “Women are always thinking about skincare or death.” It’s funny because the jump feels ludicrous; these two far-flung obsessions united in the same sentence. And yet, the beauty industry’s best-kept secret isn’t a peptide or a secret surgeon – it’s the often invisible reliance on dead bodies.
From the cadaver heads that fill hotel ballrooms at pre-conference ‘filler labs’ to the decellularised fat now injected into celebrity cheeks, human remains underpin almost every 2025 aesthetics trend. Yet donors – and consumers – rarely realise it.
At the British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery’s course in Nottingham this October, or in a convention centre...
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