In comparison to focusing on insignificant faults, Instagram has created an unattainable standard of beauty. It can be a constant scroll of unreal parts of the body like plumped lips, thigh gaps, and yanked into waists that many women now seem to have. One of the most followed and influential augmented faces on instagram, 21 years old, Kylie Jenner. Before admitting to use injectables openly, her significantly improved lips triggered a social media phenomenon known as #KylieJennerChallenge. In which individuals used a shot glass as a suction device to take hazardous steps to momentarily inflate their own lips. The televised introduction of Kylie caused a record increase in the popularity of good globally searched for lip fillers.
“Many younger patients want enhancements and sometimes desire excessive procedures that may appear unnatural.” says Jessica Weiser, M.D., a dermatologist with New York Dermatology Group. “They’re at that age where some of them start to think they can control their appearance and enhance what they want. They often want a lot of lip filler, more intense laser treatments, stronger chemical peels, et cetera. We see these extremes in the media, and these images translate into real – life requests by young women aspiring to their cosmetic ideal.” We see ideal photoshopped models in today’s culture on magazine covers with the complete ideal bodies, or amazing celebrities. It’s on TV, books, social media and so on. It is the reaction from the people looking,reading, watching these “perfect” people. The media’s influence on body image building are abundant but also controversial.
We usually see fit females, yet curvy, and fit males. The issue is that do these pictures affect what we consider to be beautiful and desirable? Yes, they do. Repeated media exposure to idealized kinds leads to enhanced male and female body discontent (Grogan, 2008). There is the problem that the average body seen in these media pictures is a type of the human body that is usually unachievable.The average model is bigger and weighs 23 percent, almost a whole quarter, LESS than the average female, according to the Canadian Women’s Health Network. Presenting an ideal image that can not be achieved by the average human being is unrealistic and harmful.
