Today, I’d like to talk to you about extremes in aesthetics.
We plastic surgeons—whether we’re performing aesthetic
surgical procedures or non-surgical rejuvenation treatments—always try to keep
things looking natural. I want to discuss why that is.
I believe that when any aesthetic procedure is overdone, it
doesn’t look good. Most of my clients and patients tend to agree. We’re all in
search of a natural and healthy appearance, after all. But once in a
while—though rarely—I do see patients who want the largest possible breasts,
the smallest nose, the highest nose tip or eyebrow arch, or the fullest lips. I
politely turn those patients away.
Because…
I have two main concerns here:
The first is my professional perspective as a plastic
surgeon. I believe our bodies and faces should be noticed in a way that
reflects overall harmony—something truly beautiful and aesthetic. I don’t want
just a pair of oversized lips to stand out when someone looks at a face, or an
overly raised nose tip that disrupts the natural harmony of the face.
Let’s extend this perspective to the body, continuing with
the example of breast aesthetics.
After breast surgery, if the breasts are excessively large,
whenever you’re on the beach in a bikini, all the attention will gather on the
chest area. This can prevent your body from being perceived as graceful.
Reducing a woman’s body to just the breasts is, remember,
not aesthetic.
Now imagine you have extremely large lips after lip
augmentation, and you’re at a social event or a meeting. People’s gaze and
focus might shift from your overall face to just your lips. That distracts from
the balance of your features, and a face that seems to be “only lips” doesn’t
look elegant.
My second perspective is a personal one, as a man.
I prefer any aesthetic procedure my wife, my partner, my
daughter, or my sister undergoes to look elegant, subtle, and stylish.
The real reason for aesthetic procedures is the effort to
achieve a healthy, graceful, youthful, and natural appearance in our face and
body.
Excessively large breasts, lips, overly lifted nose tips or
eyebrows—extreme, extreme, extreme everything—are simply not results I find
attractive or refined as a man.
While I’ve focused on women’s outcomes here, I feel the same
way about men’s aesthetics, too.
In every aspect of our lives, aesthetics and beauty can add
so much positivity, provided we remember that famous old saying: “Less is
more.”
