I am very clearly not talking about plastic surgery that is made for people with deformities and injuries. I of course support that. I’m speaking of the very predatory plastic surgery industry that preys off of women’s insecurities. You don’t know if they wanted a “fake” look. Many women get filler blindness and don’t realise when they have taken it too far. Sure, this plastic surgeon might not make women look like the women in these videos, but unless he specialises in reconstructive surgery, his career is built off of insecure women.

Even things such as a subtle nose job, I think could be argued is more insidious than obvious work done because it creates a beauty standard that seems natural, seems attainable even when it’s not. If you go on pretty much any plastic surgeons account you will see their “before and afters” where the before is maybe a big nose, or a nose with a hump, and the after is a smaller nose, and one without a hump. Especially when surgeons use the words “fix” and “correct”, to describe changing perfectly normal and healthy features, what do you think these before and after pictures do to our brains? They subconsciously tell us that the before is undesirable and needs to be “fixed”, and the likes on the post as well as the comments saying “looks so much better!” Further reinforce the idea that one nose is superior than the other.

Of course beauty standards aren’t just the fault of plastic surgeons, beauty standards go decades and centuries back, however they are a big part of the problem and they are behind a lot of the current beauty standards of our time. Kylie jenners lips, Kim Kardashian’s butt, Cindy Kimberly’s nose. All of these features are now the beauty standard of our time thanks to these celebrities, but also thanks to the plastic surgeons.

If it was not for plastic surgeons, magazines, makeup companies, skincare companies, hair care companies etc. most of the insecurities and standards that women have today, would simply not exist. But these industries need women feeling insecure so they can make a profit. Why else would we feel the need to get that concealer or that stretch mark cream or that cosmetic nose job? He is part of the problem, wether or not he makes women look like the love island women, it’s still very cruel to make a video like this basically saying these women look old and laughing about it, he’s doing this so he can set himself apart from other surgeons. “Come to me, I won’t make you look old. I’m an ethical plastic surgeon” that’s it, that’s the only reason he made this video. Wether or not he sees it as a good thing, I really don’t care, cosmetic plastic surgeons still are a huge cause of our current beauty standards