In contemporary society, social media plays a crucial role in people’s lives, shaping their attitudes towards the world, of which beauty standard was affected a lot. As a result, individuals are inclined to have operations to alter their appearance. Overall, the disadvantages of such trend outweigh the advantages.
The major reason driving this trend is the more and more universal usage of social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, which pass a message indicating that people could earn a lot money by improving their looks through cosmetic surgery. Influencers on these platforms are accustomed to beautify themselves to look better on camera. Usually, they will post their experiences of having such surgery on their channels, appreciating how much improvement they gain after these operations. Besides, they often lead a luxury life and it seems that they never worry about spending too much, thereby forming a link among cosmetic surgery, beauty, and having a lot of money. As a result, individuals, especially young girls, tend follow this trend, wishing to become an influencer to have wealth by changing their appearance.
However, they fail to consider the possible side effects of cosmetic surgery and whether it’s feasible to make money by becoming an influencer. Firstly, although cosmetic surgery has been tested by many medical tests and passes relative security examination to be allowed for marketing, there are risks having operations. For instance, it’s possible to be allergic to liquids injected to faces and have inflammatory reactions. Also, It’s normal that the surgery may fail and people could not have expected outcomes and there even might be some negative outcomes. On the other hand, there is no such a correlation between a beautiful face, successful career, and wealth. Career success rely more on people’s creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, while beauty only benefit people a little. Even for influencers, they have to output meaningful contents to be liked. Hence, if one only concentrates on becoming beautiful to achieve success, he or she may end with spending too much on operations and no career development.
In conclusion, a growing number of people lean towards having operations to improve their looks because they are affected by social media a lot and they believe they could become famous on the internet and earn a lot by changing their appearance. However, there could be side effects coming with such surgery and people could spend more than they earn, leading to a possible frugal life.