Cosmetic Surgery

[Mr. Tea]

France finalizes law to regulate influencers: From labels on filtered images to bans on promoting cosmetic surgery

A person may face up to two years in prison and a fine of €300,000 if they fail to follow the proposed new rules, which seek to crack down on social media fraud and scams

english.elpais.com

The proposed law builds on current French legislation that strictly regulates the advertising of products such as tobacco or alcohol. While the current law requires transparency in advertising, the new bill would require influencers to include a banner indicating that a post has been sponsored.

Influencers will also have to indicate whether filters have been used. An amendment, added in the Senate, also requires social media users to state whether a figure or face have been created with AI. Vojetta hopes these rules will prevent young people from “being dominated by unrealistic body representations.”

What about influencers' personalities? I think the time has come for mandatory Voight-Kampff tests.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

 

[william kent]

A video of Christina Aguilera has come up on my TikTok feed multiple times over the past few weeks. Going to the comments, it’s abundantly clear what has granted caused this clip to go viral. Dressed in an anime-cosplay monochrome look for a performance in Osaka, with her hair pinned high and flawlessly blended diamanté-encrusted make-up, it’s not just that Aguilera looks “good” for her age (which is 43), she looks 20 years younger. As one commenter puts it, “wait what am I back in 2002.”

“The Undetectable Era” is is what the first video on the topic labels it as. “What people are doing to their face in the next year is going to blow you away,” plastic surgeon Dr Prem Tripathi proclaims, referencing the video of Xtina.

Responsible for this move towards work becoming “undetectable”, Dr Trapathi explains, is a shift of focus towards skincare, with cutting-edge procedures like growth factors revolutionising the technology. “Growth factors used to be something we would get from our patient’s blood, but now we’re able to source them from things like bone marrow, umbilical cords, and are even bioengineering them in the lab. These treatments can dramatically improve the ageing process of the skin. It’s taking the aesthetic skin world to an entirely new level.” Dr Trapathi says that his assumption is that, rather than going under the knife, everyone in Hollywood is getting continuous skin treatments. “These skin boosters, skin treatments, growth factors, all of that stuff, they’re just readily available at their fingertips with little downtime.”

We are about to enter the ‘Undetectable Era’ of beauty

Christina Aguilera’s recent appearance has sparked discussions about a new era where cosmetic procedures are imperceptible, raising questions about what this will mean for beauty standards, ageing and mental health

www.dazeddigital.com

 

[william kent]

These botched surgery stories are so grim.

Student kills himself after botched beard transplant by estate agent

Mathieu Vigier Latour fell into a deep depression after a real estate agent posing a surgeon performed a botched operation in Turkey.

metro.co.uk

 

[A Liniment's Evil Work]

sad, but... wtf, I didn't even know beard transplants were a thing