In an era where appearance is paramount, if beauty comes at the cost of life, would you dare to try?
In 2015, a Korean horror comic "Cosmetic Surgery" was popular on the Internet. The ending of the comic has left countless readers on the horror and chills on the back. The shadow is still lingering.
In a while, this comic-based movie "Strange and Strange: Cosmetic Liquid" will be on the big screen with much anticipation.
▲ "Strange and Strange: Cosmetic Liquid" poster
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Xiaozhi is a "fat and ugly" girl. One day she saw a magical advertisement. The product in the advertisement was called "cosmetic liquid". It can make people thin and beautiful like pinching clay.
The beloved little wisdom decided to give it a try.
The magic is that after using the cosmetic liquid, she really reborn and became the coveted beauty.
However, cosmetic liquid has side effects, but the psychology of greed and fluke is at work. When Xiaozhi gains weight, he will use cosmetic liquid to shape it.
One day, when she was taking a bath with cosmetic liquid, she suddenly found her body melted...
In the end, only the bones were left...
z5. Half of his body, but he looks terrifying.
Xiaozhi started frantically looking for a way to recover. She found a person selling meat + plastic surgery on the Internet, but when she saw that the other party was a young and beautiful girl, she had a murderous intention and took the girl's body as her own.
With the help of cosmetic liquid, she became beautiful again, and she also met a handsome boyfriend.
But the side effects of the cosmetic liquid have been continuing. She either has a piece of meat off her arm or a layer of skin on her face, so she is careful every time she is with her boyfriend.
One day, she inadvertently reached the phone call from her boyfriend's mother and learned that her boyfriend had also used cosmetic liquid, and she was "changed" by a woman!
"Boyfriend" knew that Xiaozhi had discovered his secret, so naturally he wouldn't let her go, so he melted her off and put her on his lap...
This dark comic comes from the hands of Korean cartoonist Wu Chengdai. Once launched, it received a high score of 9.9.
because it deeply satirizes the Korean society's obsession with plastic surgery.
In the past, traditional Korean culture emphasized "invisible" values, such as integrity, kindness, filial piety, caring for family and community, but now they are all replaced by obsessive appearances.
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As a big country of plastic surgery, Koreans are almost obsessed with plastic surgery.
Many girls’ adult gifts are cosmetic surgery vouchers from their parents. Some parents will also promise their children that if you do well in the exam, they will take you for double eyelid surgery.
In South Korea, half of women have undergone cosmetic surgery. Items such as double eyelids, nose augmentation, and freckles removal are common in Korean beauty salons.If you can do it, you can’t count as “surgery”; only those that require “hard work” such as chin grinding, rib extraction, and breast augmentation are called “surgery”. The
survey shows that 13.5 plastic surgeries have been performed for every 1,000 Koreans, including cases where one person has received multiple surgeries.
▲ Ranking of major countries and regions in terms of plastic surgery volume per capita: times/1000. Source: "The Economist"
In recent years, South Korea has attracted a large number of Chinese consumers to South Korea for plastic surgery with its complete industrial chain and plastic surgery technology.
Approximately 70% of Chinese who go to Korea for plastic surgery are young women.
In 2016, a Chinese mother came to the show with tears and asked for help. Her daughter was addicted to plastic surgery and couldn't help herself.
have cosmetic injections, chins, nose pads, double eyelids cut, eye corners opened...nearly 20 plastic surgery before and after, cost 800,000.
Faced with her mother’s crying, and other people’s kind words to persuade her, this daughter turned a deaf ear to her and insisted that she was the most beautiful after plastic surgery, and said that she would continue to “fix”.
Facing this plastic surgery addicted girl, the host Meng Fei bluntly said: "You will pay a price for what you want, some prices we can afford, and some prices are too heavy for us to pay. You will find that you For what you are doing now, you have paid a long-term price that you can hardly pay." In the
comics, the side effects of cosmetic liquid are of course exaggerated, but cosmetic surgery is indeed risky, and it is also very high.
The news of plastic surgery failure is no longer fresh.
▲ A quick search, it is simply the scene of a large-scale horror movie
Jin Weikun, a Shanxi girl, because she watched a Chinese-South Korean cosmetic variety show, she signed up for cosmetic surgery in South Korea, but failed miserably-nose crooked, chin crooked, face Department becomes distorted.
In order to go back to the past, in 5 years, she went in and out of the operating room 10 times, 17 plastic surgeries, 12 nails on the face, but she never returned to the original appearance.
What's more unfortunate is that Wang Bei, the former "super girl", died because of an accident during plastic surgery.
According to the statistics of the China Consumers Association, in the 10 years before 2012, my country had an average of 20,000 complaints of disfigurement due to plastic surgery each year. In other words, at least 200,000 faces have been destroyed by the plastic surgery industry in 10 years.
is like Xiaozhi in the comics, even if they know that cosmetic liquid has side effects, even if they know that plastic surgery is risky, people still follow suit. A survey report conducted by
in 2017 showed that 88% of job-seekers believe that their appearance will affect job hunting, and half of them said they are willing to go for plastic surgery in order to get a job.
Because of this face-seeking society, they mistakenly believe that they can eat by relying on their face, plastic surgery can be done once and for all, and they can reach the pinnacle of life.
But is this really the case?
Ironically, although plastic surgery has become a tacit understanding in South Korea, the public is enjoying the dividends brought by plastic surgery, while desperately spurning the “fake” behavior of plastic surgery.
has too many film and television works to discuss this topic.
In the Korean movie "The Ugly Girl Turns Over", the heroine has the voice of nature, but because she is fat and ugly, she can only sing in secret behind the scenes.
After
undergoes plastic surgery and slimming, she has transformed herself into a beautiful singer who came to the stage, and she has also gained the love of a handsome guy.
▲ Screenshot of the movie "The Ugly Turnover"
But she is always cautious, always worried that her "true face" will be exposed. When making love, she was even more afraid that her "fake nose" would fall off and her "fake face" would be pinched.
because the handsome guy once told her that he likes to see beautiful women, but he can't tolerate his girlfriend being "fake".
▲ Screenshot of the movie "The Ugly Girl Turns Over"
In the Korean drama "My ID is a Jiangnan American", the female protagonist looks ugly, suffers from childhood ridicule and ridicules herself, and she thought of suicide.
▲ The heroine was scolded as a "fat pig" by her classmates since she was a child.
. When she became an adult, her first thing was to go for plastic surgery, but after she became a big beauty, she was scolded as a "plastic surgery monster."
There are hundreds of plastic surgery hospitals in Apgujeong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It is a famous "Korea Plastic Surgery Street" in Asia, so she is nicknamed "Gangnam American".
plastic surgery did not end her pain, but formed a strange circle. Although she has become beautiful, she is still very inferior.
▲ The most frightening thing about the female protagonist
after plastic surgery is that she begins to value her appearance morbidly, and even every time she meets a girl, she will give the other girl a score in her heart.
Korean society has a long history of severely criticizing women for their almost pathological appearance.
In 2018, South Korean news anchor Lin Hyun-joo wore glasses and became the first female anchor in South Korea to wear glasses to broadcast news, which attracted widespread criticism.
▲ Lim Hyun-joo (right)
Also in 2018, 23-year-old Kim Soo-min won the Miss Korea championship, but because she was 174 cm tall and weighed 58 kilograms, she was squirmed by the keyboard man because she was “over 100 pounds and too fat” Up". Beauty pageant champion? not qualified.
▲ Jin Xiumin
What is more ridiculous is that when a woman walks on the streets of South Korea, if she does not make up, she will suffer the strange look of others.
In a street interview, when asked "Do I usually put on makeup?", every woman interviewed answered yes, even if she went to the convenience store in front of her house or took out the trash, she had to put on makeup.
even elementary school students have special beauty salons.
Gradually, people began to face this morbidly distorted aesthetic value.
21-year-old Lina Bae (Lina Bae) is a well-known YouTube beauty blogger who often shares makeup tutorials and has 140,000 fans.
▲ Pei Lina
But the comments on her video are full of nasty words, such as "If I grow up like this, I will commit suicide" "This is a pig making makeup"...
These words pierce her heart like a knife. Make her feel inferior.
But there are also many female netizens who empathize with her and leave messages to her, letting her know that besides her, there are thousands of women like her who are under the pressure of appearance evaluation.
So she uploaded a video called "I'm not pretty". In the video, she went back to the most natural look from plain makeup, makeup to makeup removal.
When she started without makeup, the screen began to show the words "Normal Terror Attack" and "Don't you know that makeup is a kind of etiquette?"
When she puts on her makeup and faces the camera with delicate makeup, the barrage becomes "hate heavy makeup" and "really disgusting". Look at
, no matter what you do, it's all wrong. Because "not beautiful" is the original sin.
At the end of the film, Pei Lina smiled and told the girls:
"I'm not pretty, but it doesn't matter. Don't abuse yourself because of others' sight, and don't be bound by social stereotypes. Don't compare yourself with the image in the media. Your appearance is very special now." After the release of the
video, as many as 7.5 million people watched it, and Korean women started a movement to "escape the corset".
The judging of society’s appearance is like the corsets of the ladies of the Middle Ages, which is overwhelming.
They cut their long hair, knocked over cosmetics, and wrote protest slogans in lipstick to break free from the shackles of women in Korean society.
More and more people are beginning to speak out, plastic surgery is a kind of cultural violence against women.
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Not only in South Korea, but in China, Japan, and even the whole world, there are too many harsh criticisms of women.
How much vision does a girl have to bear to grow up safely?
"Plastic surgery, make-up, long hair, dress up, lose weight..." These words of
fill the air almost all the time, gesticulating and commenting on modern women.
It seems that there is only one standard for judging women all over the world. Only with the face of an angel and the figure of a devil is worthy of a wonderful and happy life.
But helplessly, many women have to or unconsciously cater to that kind of criticism, tacitly that this is political correctness.
▲ Screenshot of the TV series "My ID is a Jiangnan American"
Last year, a variety show called "Why are you so good-looking" caused heated discussions.
One of the female guests is a 34-year-old female doctor.
She has never been in love in 34 years, she has never used lipstick, and she has never put on makeup or dressing up.
Her appearance shocked Wu Xin, the "reconstruction consultant", and she covered her mouth exaggeratedly and shouted: This face is too vegetarian!
▲ Screenshot of Variety Show "Why Are You So Good"
Another guest is a full-time mother with quadruplets. Her husband said that now she doesn't play pink, and she is like two people before marriage. So she signed up for this show, hoping she could change herself.
But since she had a child, her daily life is like a war, with very little rest time, let alone dressing up.
▲ Screenshot of Variety Show "Why Are You So Good"
"Renovation Consultant" Fan Xiaoxi said seriously: women have to make up.
▲ Screenshot of Variety Show "Why Are You So Good"
But, who stipulates that "women must have makeup"?
Everyone has the heart of beauty, Is it wrong to pursue beauty? Of course there is nothing wrong, but what is the definition of beauty?
When beauty becomes a rule, when all the beauties seem to come from the factory assembly line, is it still beautiful?
There are many kinds of beauty, female doctors are full of poems and books, and focus on academic research; full-time mothers take care of the family and children, and dedicate their youth and love; simple laborers sweat and contribute to the industry and society...
This kind of beauty cannot be exchanged for any beauty equipment or cosmetics.
When will we not have to worry about the mediocre appearance, old age, and out-of-shape figure, do not need to change course with the eyes of others, do not need to tie ourselves in order to meet the secular?
When can we say generously and confidently:
It is my freedom not to dress up, and
to wear clothes easily is my freedom.
Moreover, I have unlimited possibilities,
has nothing to do with my appearance,
I believe I can achieve anything.
Whether it is makeup or beauty, I hope you do these things to please yourself, not to cater to others.
bravely accept the truest self, confident you, beautiful enough.
Author: Yu Ting
