For his part, Schulman said he preferred someone using a filtered image as a basis from which to get cosmetic surgery, rather than just asking to copy a celebrity. Beyond that, as Schulman explained, cosmetic surgery isn’t necessarily going to change your life. “I turn down about 25 percent of people who come to see me for plastic surgery, and it’s for a variety of reasons,” Schulman said. The trend of people requesting to look like filtered versions of themselves raises a number of questions about the ethics of cosmetic surgery, social media’s influence on the practice and our society’s beauty standards in general. For Schulman, no matter how you might feel about cosmetic surgery trends and social media’s influence on them, it’s not going to disappear.

Source: Huffington Post February 22, 2018 17:03 UTC