2023-07-30 07:26:07
Posted Jul 27, 2023, 7:25 a.m. Updated Jul 30, 2023, 9:26 a.m.
No driver’s license, no heirloom, no unforgettable experience. For her majority, Cindy’s parents and friends have clubbed together to offer her… a rhinoplasty. “My nose did not fit the beauty criteria. I started hating it while hanging out on TikTok in college. He had this little bump in the middle that quickly became an obsession. I hated my mirror and forbade anyone to take my profile picture. Photoshop has been my best friend, my guardian angel. The more I scrolled on the networks, the more I compared myself, the more I lost confidence, the more I cried and the more I reassured myself by retouching my portraits. The surgery when I was 18 broke this infernal cycle, ”recalls this young girl with impeccable plastic.
She’s not the only one. Since 2019, for the first time since the beginnings of cosmetic surgery, French people aged 18 to 34 are now more likely than seniors to use it to erase an often minor imperfection. And the trend is exploding, unlocked by the health crisis which has elevated influencers to the rank of stars in the idle intimacy of teenage bedrooms: +20% on average per year according to the National Union of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
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