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Plastic Surgeons Sound the Alarm Against the New “Alienized Look”
Surgeons and nurses are speaking up in podcasts and on social media about the normalization of well-known faces distorted by extreme procedures: "What sort of twisted standard of beauty are we creating for younger generations?"
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Dr. Steven Harris has had it. The owner of the Harris Clinic in London, who employs a “less is more” approach in his use of Botox and fillers, has taken to social media to sound the alarm bells. On Instagram, the aesthetic doctor — whose Hollywood clients regularly fly across the pond to see for his revered correction work — posted a picture of a stick of dynamite with a ticking clock next to it, writing, “Our industry is fast becoming a breeding ground for mental health illness. … What sort of twisted standard of beauty are we creating for the younger generations and how does it affect those with mental health disorders such as Body Dysmorphic Disorder?”
Speaking with THR, he says, “Things have gone really wrong in the field of aesthetics.” As Harris sees it, there’s a normalization of extreme procedures that’s threatening to take over the industry, from the controversial Russian Lip technique (“using an overabundance of filler to crudely project lips vertically, creating a tented look with severe, crisp borders,” according to Harris) to protruding cheek bones to an abnormally high-winged eyebrows. The latter three looks are part of a trend that goes beyond Instagram Face — a highly “Facetuned” wrinkle- and pore-free mug — and has morphed into what some doctors are calling a grossly altered, “alienized look.” Think something not too far from Angelina Jolie’s paranormally contoured facial transformation for the role of Maleficent, faces whose features have been distorted with dermal fillers and botulinum toxin to the point where they look like extra-terrestrials. Think the model and social-media phenom with the new abnormally arched eyebrows (which observers say is achieved via laparoscopic brow lifts); a horde of reality stars; and the rapper whose face is reaching increasing levels of angularity.
Echoes Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. Ben Talei (who is known for his natural-looking AuraLyft deep-plane release face-lift), “The practitioners who are performing this outrageously excessive work have very vivid imaginations. What they’re doing is trying to create new anatomy that doesn’t exist, and patients wind up looking like another species.” Adds plastic surgeon Dr. Julius Few of The Few Institute in Chicago, “Our anatomy is designed to sit in a certain way, and the goal is to subtly restore and enhance. Conversely, what this extreme look is doing is manipulating the face well past the natural boundaries of a given area, and it’s an absolute mistake.” Continues Few, “Unfortunately, there is a belief that hyper-inflating or overpulling areas of the face will somehow counteract aging, and that is false.”
Given that many high-profile personalities who’ve alienized their faces have accumulated enormous wealth because of their looks, drastically transforming one’s appearance seems to equate with striking it rich, which can be very seductive.
Harris and other respected medical professionals are intent on raising awareness for rejuvenation that keeps to natural forms. For Harris and his colleagues, education is also paramount. “Patients have been incorrectly trained to return for injection maintenance, but that’s under the assumption that the product is gone in six months to a year, when in reality some injectables, including filler, can last much longer,” adds Talei. Like Harris, Talei and L.A.-based facial plastic surgeon Dr. Kay Durairaj often post warnings on their social media accounts to help further educate patients about what to avoid and call attention to alarming practices on their podcasts, Beauty Bytes With Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon and Talei’s The Reality Pill.
