Our bodies are the source of all anxieties, but those about our body feel especially urgent. Since famous bodies can be used to promote cosmetics, slimming waistbands and soft drinks, which are meant to calm those anxieties. We’re constantly adopting standards that celebrities themselves cannot meet without assistance. This is often in the form cosmetic surgery, find out more!
Many Americans have redesigned their bodys. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), 15.6 millions corrective procedures were carried out in 2014. The plastic medical treatment allows customers to replicate their own appearance, which is a way of redefining youth and beauty. The procedure can be used to remove socially undesirable physical features or to delay the age when people start showing signs of maturing.
These systems are not only visible, but also intended to remain imperceptible. Plastic surgeons are stone-carvers who have the ability to change the appearance of the body while maintaining the originality and ingenuity. They don’t usually succeed. When the plastic surgery is evident, as in Michael Jackson’s scandalous nase, social feelings of fear and distortion are expressed.
As a result, the condition of one’s nose is viewed as a reflection on their character, and how they are perceived in public. Over the past two centuries, different methods of plastic surgery have been used to correct badly formed noses. Elizabeth Harken reveals in Venus Envy, A History of Plastic Surgery that one of the most important rhinoplasty techniques was performed in ancient India, in the 6th Century B.C. The patient had a fold of cheek skin repurposed into a new nose. It wasn’t till a European pandemic of syphilis in the 16th century, that nasal correction procedures gained popularity in the west. A syphilis outbreak can cause rotting tissue in the nose, which leaves an enormous hole on the face. This deformity conveyed social shame, whether or not the person had been afflicted by disease. To reproduce noses, different strategies were used. One of the more popular methods was to take skin from the arm of the patient and attach it to the face in order to create a new nose.
Even sound noses are a disgrace to their owners due to its distinctive appearance. In the 19th century, the pseudoscience of “physiognomy” – which was gaining popularity – claimed that the condition of a person’s nose would reveal their moral character. According to Gabrielle Glaser in The Nose : A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival, Gabrielle Glaser clarified that a straight or “sell” nose indicated refinement, and a “sell nose” implied finesse. This fantasy’s execution was both pseudoscientific and hostile towards Semitic.
Plastic surgery in North America did not become popular until the end of the nineteenth century. Americans who wanted to get rid of undesirable features, such as large noses or unremarkable facial characteristics, could find a doctor willing to cut their faces and shape them. Patients who underwent restorative surgery to remove racial symbols were among the pioneers. The method included making lips, eyes and noses appear less outside. This was a word that appeared in early American dictionaries as a dirty word.