Here I am with another ironic title.
I know that you wake up each day to dozens of commercial videos on your social media about popular practices that are the secret to Kylie Jenner’s beauty. Or I imagine you sipping your coffee under the pressure of the places screaming for you to choose them and promise to offer you the beauty of the world with dirt cheap prices.
So I wanted to write an article for you at this point where you are caught between this stuckness, and I’m going to try to resolve this issue for you with my words like a surgeon using his knife to heal a wound.
Is something popular simply because it is good?
Popularity can be understood in the sense of “the last to arrive” as a level of sophistication. This is exactly the carrot for the pit they want you to fall into!
I want to tell you a personal story of mine. Years ago, I went to America to learn facelift, to see a surgeon whose results I found legendary and did a facelift in that style after what I learned from them. Before I arrived, I was thinking, “I wonder what material he use on this part of the face, does he suture that incision with a laser, does he use tissue glue for this incision?”, but I found that the surgeon was suturing with the technique used by a first-year assistant. When I asked him why he doesn’t use popular techniques, he replied that he couldn’t achieve the same result with any popular technique as he could with the old technique and that he wouldn’t replace a working method with another technique just because it is more popular. These words were a lesson for me.
This should not be taken to imply an attitude that is closed to improvement, just that popularity does not always mean better, more successful, or evolutionarily more up-to-date. Often even ignorant people can popularize an unsafe and unhealthy practice through interactions on social media. Then you risk your health just to be popular.
Aesthetics based on the price?
This is the other irony of my title. We know that aesthetic procedures are actually medical procedures. No matter how much you are told that it is as easy as this, as simple as that, as comfortable as that, a medical procedure can always have a cutting edge, just like a knife.
I fully understand your budget concerns, but aesthetic applications are not emergency treatments, so do not lead to a bigger health issue with the concern of prices. Research well, and evaluate patient outcomes. Make these evaluations by weeding out the ones that have been altered and edited with various photoshops and filters in the social media environment.
Avoid unlicensed practices with cheap materials, insensitive and untrained practitioners, and unhygienic environments.
Your health is more crucial than your wrinkles and thin lips. Please take this warning from a plastic surgeon into consideration.
