Self plastic surgery trend

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Housewife Kim (45) was shocked when she organized the backpack of her 6th grade elementary school student.

In her bag were several 'self plastic surgery' tools like glasses specially made so that your eyes can't close, helping to create double eyelids, face rollers to help slim the face, and nose clippers that promise to raise the nose bridge.



Realizing that these tools weren't just bought out of pure curiosity, she approached her daughter about it immediately and was even more shocked to find that she didn't find it to be that big of a deal. She said, "I bought them because I want to become beautiful like the celebrities. Most of my classmates have one or two of these 'self plastic surgery' tools. We sometimes share, too."

Kim's first concern was that teens would be hurting themselves by using tools that weren't confirmed to do what they promised. "It's a problem that such young children are jealous of the beauty of female celebrities and using these tools but it's also a bigger problem that these tools are readily available for purchase like this. I'm worried that children will break their bones or worsen their skin conditions by using them."

A lot of 'self plastic surgery' tools have been trending among teens, such as rollers to create 'V line' jaws. All of these are available for purchase on the internet and are advertised freely all over the net.

Seo (14), a second year junior high school student, said, "They're cheap so we can easily buy them. Most of my classmates own these tools as well as make up products mostly used by adults. We use them with half the hope of becoming as pretty as the female celebrities."

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1. [+372, -11] The journalist doesn't seem to know that this has been trending with teens since 30 years ago... Trying to create dimples by poking your cheeks with a pencil, taping your eyes, creating double eyelids by putting glue on the end of a toothpick, 'drawing' a double eyelid with a pencil, using clothes pins to pinch your nose to make it higher, etc... Some of the kids actually got double eyelids that way.

2. [+94, -7] Elementary school students~ none of those tools will work. Focus on learning make up techniques once you become adults because make up alone can make you beautiful. A student should look like a student. And celebrities are only beautiful because experts make them look that way, they are not that beautiful on their own.

3. [+62, -5] Society has made beauty a competitive advantage. Even in school, the prettier kids will have more popularity while the ugly ones are forced to cower down. ㅠ Since they're young and have no money, they have to resort to tools like this... upsetting.

4. [+13, -11] 1990 Korean woman: I don't want anyone to find out that I got double eyelid surgery. / 2010 Korean woman: I'm a natural beauty who only got her double eyelids done!

5. [+8, -2] This is representative of Korean society. Whether you're a student or an adult, if you're beautiful and handsome, people will treat you like a human being. If you're ugly, you don't even get such treatment. Our society is so focused on looks that these students are only victims of that.

6. [+7, -0] A few years from now, we'll be able to get double eyelid surgery at our local convenience store ㅋ


Source: newsis, netizenbuzz

Comments

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

HOLD ON!!!!

"SELF" plastic surgery? really?

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

yup :|

[laeryn.livejournal.com]

This is really sad to me. I'm ok with PS when you're an adult, I'm ok with finding ways to enhance your beauty if it's going to make you feel better -- but to reach the point where young kids are so obsessed with reaching a certain kind of beauty that they resort to things like that sounds extreme. Beauty is important everywhere (let's not lie to ourselves) but everything is bad in excess. And this is excessive imo.

[love4movies.livejournal.com]

If the rolemodel a kid has is an adult or in this case a whole society obsessing about looks, how will you raise it without obsessing itself?

Mother Nature made you like this. Live with it. Going under the knife for vanity reasons is simply insane. Work on your self-confidence and character, don't start an endless cycle of operations, as one will not be enough, because your body changes with the much dreaded AGING.
We don't see enough of the operations that went wrong, but they are there. People died for bigger breasts. Is it worth it?

I am already waiting for the time when a new facial form is becoming the latest fashion in Korea. What will they do? Glue new bones to their jaws?

Rant over.

[luvey.livejournal.com]

"5. [+8, -2] This is representative of Korean society. Whether you're a student or an adult, if you're beautiful and handsome, people will treat you like a human being. If you're ugly, you don't even get such treatment. Our society is so focused on looks that these students are only victims of that."

so much worth on someone for their outward appearances. i'm surprised the mother was surprised at all, considering how we read about how much beauty is valued and even the competitiveness of beauty in the workplace and society as a whole. (not just korea, but all over. and what is worse is that there are certain ideology of what is beautiful - skin colour, size, etc - that many won't be able to fit even with the magic of plastic surgery.)

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

mte
and what what surprised me the most is that they are totally open on saying you're ugly or pretty right into your face.
my korean teacher was like that. she would say I was very pretty and whatever but when she turned to another girl next to me she would say "you look ugly. maybe a nose job would do you some good."

Thankfully the girl was totally superior and just smiled, said she was okay with how she looked but when we got out she was super close to start crying.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

kids are just following the example they get from adults

[martha-sal.livejournal.com]

exactly

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

STOP EVERYTHING!
SELF PS?
what the actual fuck...

[xcapist.livejournal.com]

like glasses specially made so that your eyes can't close, helping to create double eyelids...

Wtf? How would these even work? I'm trying to picture it and am only coming up with those weird torture devices that you see on t.v that they kind of hook under the lids...augh...

Poor kids. They shouldn't have to worry about these things, but they do. All young girls/boys from all over do...

[pepper.livejournal.com]

This is really sad.
Ew at humanity and their unrealistic expectations of beauty.

[couturevibes.livejournal.com]

mte!

[momomoing.livejournal.com]

this has been around for over a decade now.

and I feel "self-plastic surgery" is not a really an accurate term for it. There's no actual surgery involved first of all. They are talking about those eyelid tapes and face rollers from what I gather from the article, which aren't really all that permanent (or effective). It's more like how people go to the spa and get those body wraps to lose weight.

[xoxgoodbye.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter if the term "self plastic surgery" is the accurate term or not, it's sad that Korea's emphasis on appearance is causing 6th graders to do things like this. It's just sad tbqh.

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

oh korea

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

There really should be some "love yourself" movement or songs in korea. All the songs/shows just seem to reinforce beauty standards.

[klauses.livejournal.com]

goddamn, sixth grade students should not have to be worrying about this stuff, they're only bbs

[inati.livejournal.com]

omg that ep of catfish was so fucked up

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

i tried those tapes that you put on your eyelids to make it look like you have double eyelids and i got so much compliments when they didn't see that i had something on my eye. lol!

[fantaesticbaby.livejournal.com]

Korean society seems increasingly fucked up when u look at their obsession with plastic surgery and material goods :/

like... where is the heart?

[love-allure.livejournal.com]

i kinda agree but then again i can't say shit since the us ain't better in that aspect.

also it would do some good if the korean government did something to stop the advertising of plastic surgery groups freaking EVERYWHERE. i'm seriously when i say you see that shit in magazines, tv, radio, subways, parks etc, online flashing ads, hired workers on female-oriented online communities. it's bizarre.

[love-allure.livejournal.com]

that reminds me, i remember buying a japanese edition of seventeen and there was this section on one of the models on how her face became smaller. the freaking girl had on some man in the iron mask shit on her head! and those dumb jaw rollers. no wonder tweens and teens fall for these things.

kinda like this get-up. http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/b-kizuna/item/10000302/

and ugh the nose clippers, smh. i remember them being a thing on soompi forums when i was younger.

[julyever.livejournal.com]

lol my mom got permanent double eyelids from using the tape. I tried it, and it hurt.

[miyozari.livejournal.com]

If you start using them as a young kid, they'll eventually leave an (permanent) effect, because kids' bone structures are still growing and therefore more flexible. However if you're already an adult, they'll barely work, maybe a temporary effect but that's it.

[achan123.livejournal.com]

lol. i kinda wanna give the nose roller a go :P
ha! but seriously....what the hell korea -___-

[45s.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of south Florida where women paid a person to put fix flat in their butts and doods paid money to get calf implants in some dood's garage.

DIY culture gone wrong

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

do you read Crunk and Disorderly? so many horror stories about women trying to give themselves butt injections with cooking oils

[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

I was scared that I was going to read about kids cutting each other open.

Netizens 5 and 2 have the right idea.

[des-akazim.livejournal.com]

my chinese roommate used things like that too...eyelid tape/glue most memorably, with a little pick to push it up and hold it. then huge false eyelashes were the next step, EVERYDAY. it took her about 1~2 hours to 'get her face on', and then...when she didn't wear makeup, it made the difference almost shocking. I thought it was her mother or something :\;;

(it's not that she wasn't pretty, but it was the difference between all her 'preparations' that made it so stark...)

[umbrella-smile.livejournal.com]

"glasses specially made so that your eyes can't close"

What?

[guitarchic11292.livejournal.com]

This just makes me really angry and sad...

[goldynchickie.livejournal.com]

This is just sad. Mte @ 5

[evivante.livejournal.com]

EYK reviews a lot of these ridiculous tools. I remember them reviewing a nose roller when they first started out. It's crazy =| I passed by a street in Seoul that was literally lined with aesthetic clinics. It was like the Rodeo Drive of plastic surgeons. I got goosebumps.

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of the glasses, but those rollers are available everywhere. I saw them on EYK forever ago. They don't do anything. If anything they're like massage rollers for your face.