Teens Who Want To Get Cosmetic Surgery To Look Like Snapchat Filters

In this world there are people for everything, we know it well. On many occasions we have seen scandalous news about people who want to look like their idols and therefore do not hesitate to submit to the scalpel. They want to look like Michael Jackson, Barbie, Ken, David Beckham or Angelina Jolie. The result of the before and after is a mixture between the pathetic and the sordid, but what can we do?If they like it, let each madman continue with his theme.

Today we have to pay attention to a new phenomenon that occurs among adolescents and that seems to indicate, once again, the path of humanity towards disaster. In case you weren't up to date, we have to tell you that the new trend among young people today undergoes surgery to have a face in the image and likeness of their favorite filters on SnapchatThis is a trend that doctors have already defined as 'concerning' and that has been confirmed by Neelam Vashi, MD, director of the Ethnic Skin Center at Boston Medical Center.

To define this adolescent madness, the doctor has used the term 'Snapchat Dysphoria',in order to delimit this trend as mental disorder of those people who, for one reason or another, live pathologically worried about their physical appearance.

They want to be permanently beautiful

These teenagers, obsessed with their faces and WhatsApp filters in equal measure, have a serious problem. And that is why they have become protagonists of the Journal of Facial Plastic Surgery of the American Medical Association.

Experts believe that these boys and girls have a completely altered perception of beauty. Some filters from tools like Snapchat allow you to refine your face, make it look whiter, and make you have bigger eyes and fuller lips. Not anymore they see themselves differently: they want to have these filters forever and that is why they ask to have surgery to show them off forever.

Adolescents are at a particularly critical stage. His obsession with defects, both in the body and in the face, become more acute.But what was once a simple complex about a big nose or too thin lips has now become a true obsession with imperfections

Want to remove pimples, make freckles disappear, whiten their skin, refine their face or apply permanent blush. This obsession with the little things has led them to apply filters unhe althily, not only on Snapchat, but also in life.

Requests to improve your face in selfies are increasing

According to this medical academy, in 2017 55% of doctors treated people who wanted to look better in selfies. This is 13% more than in the previous year Thus, instead of dealing with the typical queries of those who have some reasonable complex, doctors now receive requests to have the same face as if they had applied the filter of the butterflies or the one of the crown with flowers.

The effect achieved by the Snapchat filters has to do with the symmetry of the faces, which makes us – with our particular conception of beauty – look more handsome and beautiful. Thus, they also make wrinkles disappear, soften the appearance of the face and eliminate any hint of imperfection.