I'm in my fifties and many of my friends my age and younger have started going in for injectables, so my first thought was "Well, good thing I'm already on trend". Let's face it, at least this trend is cheaper. Working on the rest will take time, but maybe for a while we might be saving money.
I'm in my fifties and many of my friends my age and younger have started going in for injectables, so my first thought was "Well, good thing I'm already on trend". Let's face it, at least this trend is cheaper. Working on the rest will take time, but maybe for a while we might be saving money.
Jokes aside, the beauty standard is inherently classist. Looking "put together" is increasingly expensive as you age, and is inevitably the domain of wealthier women, which in turn makes it easier for these women to look professional and market themselves effectively. There is no doubt in my mind that newer and better injectables will hit the market at one point, with the promise of making people look "fresh" and not swollen, and the cycle will begin again.
Those products already exist, in the US, since around six years ago, I believe. Plus non injectable treatments, also very expensive and requiring frequent use, like laser treatments, have been around for a very long time.
Do people mistake a famous person having their overly puffy lips or face partially reversed as being a declaration that fillers were the only work they have on their face? I think that's the message they want others to believe, but it's not true, of course.
No, I don't think that people think that at all. I think many are very aware of other products and procedures. It's just that this post is particularly focusing on fillers, as there is data to show that fillers specifically are falling out of favors in some circles.
It's quite performative, though, isn't it? And the famous can omit mention of all of the other interventions they continue to have.
I don't think filler removal is widespread. Not a trend. It might be the case that Profhilo has taken over from newly getting fillers or adding more filler (although it does nothing for lips), but there's still a lot of filled faces in the celebrity and Instagram worlds.
I agree that it's probably not widespread, and I did note that filler use is increasing overall, but nevertheless the data is there — dissolving procedures are up over 50% in a year, which is pretty huge! I'd say it's a niche and probably temporary trend.
As with all data, if the baseline was low, then a 50 percent increase can still be immaterial. It might mean 0.5 percent of people who have ever had filler are having it reversed. Or it might mean that a clinic used to have one client a week seeking the dissolving process, and now they have two.
Without the baseline, the 50 percent increase doesn't have a context.
This is true! Not sure it's the case here though? I mean if you click through to some of the more traditional beauty media articles I linked about it, the phenomenon is also backed by lots of new research about how fillers function in the body, doctors being able to validate users' negative experiences and advise on dissolving, etc. I don't think it's a huuuge trend and I don't think it changes anything about beauty culture, but I do think it's happening in a not-negligible way!
I suspect, with no evidence at all, that dissolving procedures are mostly driven by beauty culture, with some people realizing that they look less than beautiful with their excessive fillers - even if it did take them a decade or two to notice. Such is the allure of facial distortion.
It's interesting about health concerns, given that fillers have been around for a very long time, and predominantly aimed at and used by women. Why is safety only being considered so belatedly?
In Australia, safety and medical concerns haven't had any attention, not gaining media coverage here.
I'm in my fifties and many of my friends my age and younger have started going in for injectables, so my first thought was "Well, good thing I'm already on trend". Let's face it, at least this trend is cheaper. Working on the rest will take time, but maybe for a while we might be saving money.
Jokes aside, the beauty standard is inherently classist. Looking "put together" is increasingly expensive as you age, and is inevitably the domain of wealthier women, which in turn makes it easier for these women to look professional and market themselves effectively. There is no doubt in my mind that newer and better injectables will hit the market at one point, with the promise of making people look "fresh" and not swollen, and the cycle will begin again.
Those products already exist, in the US, since around six years ago, I believe. Plus non injectable treatments, also very expensive and requiring frequent use, like laser treatments, have been around for a very long time.
Do people mistake a famous person having their overly puffy lips or face partially reversed as being a declaration that fillers were the only work they have on their face? I think that's the message they want others to believe, but it's not true, of course.
No, I don't think that people think that at all. I think many are very aware of other products and procedures. It's just that this post is particularly focusing on fillers, as there is data to show that fillers specifically are falling out of favors in some circles.
It's quite performative, though, isn't it? And the famous can omit mention of all of the other interventions they continue to have.
I don't think filler removal is widespread. Not a trend. It might be the case that Profhilo has taken over from newly getting fillers or adding more filler (although it does nothing for lips), but there's still a lot of filled faces in the celebrity and Instagram worlds.
I agree that it's probably not widespread, and I did note that filler use is increasing overall, but nevertheless the data is there — dissolving procedures are up over 50% in a year, which is pretty huge! I'd say it's a niche and probably temporary trend.
True, true! I'd forgotten that part. 😁
As with all data, if the baseline was low, then a 50 percent increase can still be immaterial. It might mean 0.5 percent of people who have ever had filler are having it reversed. Or it might mean that a clinic used to have one client a week seeking the dissolving process, and now they have two.
Without the baseline, the 50 percent increase doesn't have a context.
This is true! Not sure it's the case here though? I mean if you click through to some of the more traditional beauty media articles I linked about it, the phenomenon is also backed by lots of new research about how fillers function in the body, doctors being able to validate users' negative experiences and advise on dissolving, etc. I don't think it's a huuuge trend and I don't think it changes anything about beauty culture, but I do think it's happening in a not-negligible way!
I suspect, with no evidence at all, that dissolving procedures are mostly driven by beauty culture, with some people realizing that they look less than beautiful with their excessive fillers - even if it did take them a decade or two to notice. Such is the allure of facial distortion.
It's interesting about health concerns, given that fillers have been around for a very long time, and predominantly aimed at and used by women. Why is safety only being considered so belatedly?
In Australia, safety and medical concerns haven't had any attention, not gaining media coverage here.
That's most likely what's going to happen. But I believe that sooner or later they will come up with something new!