Is rhinoplasty and lip augmentation obsolete? "Elf Ear" surgery is underway! Can 10,000 yuan reduce your face and rejuvenate your youth?
With the popularity of medical aesthetics and micro plastic surgery, “factory repair” in order to obtain better appearance is nothing new. General or local plastic surgery such as autologous fat transplantation, lip augmentation, and double eyelid surgery are quite common. But the love of beauty has no limits. Since the eyes, nose and chin can be operated on, if you want to pursue a more perfect beauty, is it feasible to turn your mind to the “ears”? In fact, the most popular medical aesthetic surgery in China is to make the ears pointier and more prominent like “elf ears” to achieve the visual effect of slimming the face and rejuvenating the eyes.
China’s plastic surgery market develops rapidly
According to the South China Morning Post, China’s plastic surgery market climbed from US$10.1 billion in 2015 to US$27.7 billion in 2019, making it the fastest growing region in the global plastic surgery market. The most enthusiastic group is the “post-00s generation”, a young group of students aged 18 to 21, who have the largest growth rate in receiving medical aesthetic surgeries. The most popular thing among these “post-00s” young people is “pointed ear surgery”, which uses hyaluronic acid injection or artificial cartilage filling to make people look like the elves in the movie “The Lord of the Rings” , so they are also known as “elf ears”.
Will having elf ears affect your appearance? Song Yao, a fashion store owner in Hangzhou, China, said in an interview that the biggest change is that others can see her ears from the front, which makes her overall look more energetic and visually makes her face appear smaller and more attractive. Moreover, the cost of pointed ear surgery is only about 10,000 yuan (about NT$43,200), which is not expensive. Yu Wenlin, a plastic surgeon who works at the Guangzhou Medical Aesthetics Center in China, also mentioned in the report that due to the rush to spread the word on social media, many college students were attracted to undergo surgery, with a record of six surgeries being performed in one day, which shows the popularity of pointed ear surgery.
Pointed ear surgery is not risk-free and may cause skin ulcers.
However, obtaining a perfect “child face” through pointed ear surgery is not without risks. Wang Jiangyun, a surgeon at the Third People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China, warned that adding extra cartilage to the ears may risk infection, permanent scarring, ear asymmetry, and in severe cases, allergies, blood clots, or skin necrosis. Wang Jiangyun believes that fashion and beauty are constantly changing, so you must think carefully before undergoing surgery, especially some irreversible plastic surgeries.
The behavior of making oneself more beautiful and handsome through medical aesthetics may be related to “appearance anxiety”. This is a symptom of social anxiety in which one has a negative view of one’s own appearance. The development of social media has further contributed to this anxiety phenomenon. Plastic surgery may be able to relieve appearance anxiety, but as the above-mentioned Dr. Wang Jiangyun said, the public’s perception of beauty is constantly changing. If you blindly pursue the appearance that is recognized by the public, like the heroine of the Korean animation “Plastic Surgery”, He changes his appearance crazily, eventually losing himself and falling into morbidity. Ultimately, the purpose of changing your appearance is to gain confidence and eliminate anxiety. Once you understand this reason and decide whether to undergo plastic surgery, you may have completely different results.
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