More and more people are emulating their idols on Instagram. Recently, therefore, a new beauty trend is emerging, which is not without danger. Especially Millenials are affected.
Fitness models and beauty bloggers are the heroines of our time . At the time, teenagers hung the star cut of their favorite singer or actor on the wall, and the so-called millennials are now eagerly pursuing their digital idols. The term “influencer” is no longer a fad, but has become a real profession-the young girls nowadays also want to take.
Likes as a digital currency
You pay in likes. The more reach an influencer gets, the higher his value goes, resulting in lucrative advertising co-operations. The “Like” little boy and the thumb pointing up are the lowest common denominator in social networks that users agree on. The goal: to collect as many likes as possible. And you get those with beautiful pictures.
The fact that the supposed beauty on Instagram and Snapchat has little to do with reality, should be clear to most adults. Teenagers, however, see the enlarged eyes, the flawless skin and the cute nose of the face filter and reflect the digital ideals of beauty back to the analogous ego. With the result that they quickly emulate a false ideal of beauty.
Dissatisfaction in one’s own body
The phenomenon is called “selfie dysmorphophobia,” about which the star reported in January 2019. According to the filter should cause dissatisfaction in his own body, which meant that young people went with their filter selfie to the plastic surgeon and wanted to be operated on just this picture. According to the “German Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery”, this trend has so far been individual cases of the generation selfie. Tendency: rising.
Cynthia Wolfensberger, a doctor of aesthetic and plastic surgery, also told the ” NZZ ” that young women in particular were emulating their role models from social networks: “Some feel they have to get as close as possible to the picture, the social media stars to mediate. ” Even if one notes the obvious processing of many images, the surgeon continued, some patients deduced that in the time of Photoshop with a plastic surgery, everything is feasible.
Butt enlargements most popular
How much the current ideal of beauty depends on the social networks, shows a survey of the “American Society of Plastic Surgeons,” as ” CNBC ” reports. According to that, last year 24,099 people had their buttocks enlarged – 19 percent more than in the previous year. According to “CNBC,” the operatives were inspired by stars like Kim Kardashian and her sisters, who always display their unnatural, often beauty-operated, hourglass figure on Instagram. In the so-called “Brazilian Butt Lift”, the surgeon sucks off fat on unwelcome areas – such as the lower abdomen – in order to inject the buttocks and thus to make it more voluminous.
Parents in duty
Priska Dabkowska is responsible for media literacy at Pro Juventute, a Swiss foundation for children and adolescents. She sees loud “NZZ” the parents in the duty to counteract this trend. If there were unrealistic role models earlier – such as with Twiggy, the supermodel of the 60s – so the step to consumption is made much faster today.
“In the environment of influencers advertise online shops for diets, make-up or sprayed lips,” she tells the NZZ. But if parents were also constantly on the phone and uncritically consumed, they were a bad role model for their children. Parents should therefore better control the Internet consumption of their children, but still leave enough space for them to make their own experiences.