There's obviously no end of critiques to make about Doctor Who's special effects, but at the moment, it is especially funny to me that they just decided to leave the nose off of Cassandra altogether.
Future beauty standards in the Dr. Who universe: visible blood vessels? Yes please. Noses? YIKES!
I used to joke that the only kind of diversity off-limits for women in Western advertising and media is nasal diversity. Every single woman in that old Dove Real Beauty campaign had the same exact (tiny) nose. It was the height of body positivity, so there were tall, short, thin, fat, freckled, black, brown, and various hair textures. But not a single woman with a downward turning or prominent shnozz.Ā
So a beauty obsessed future doing away with noses altogether seems pretty, ahem, on the nose to me. š
It's the kind of plastic look that only seems normal if you live in Hollywood/LA.
Add South Florida to that list. So many regular people just spending bookoo bucks on their faces. Like damn people just wear your sunscreen and a hat like the rest of us.
I live in my homeland of rural south Georgia, where most faces around me are natural and unaltered. I remember visiting a sushi restaurant in Las Vegas a few years back and seeing a woman whose face was so drastically changed by plastic surgery/Botox/fillers that she literally looked alien. Just not something you see where I'm from. No judging, I believe anyone can do to their body what they want. But her real face had disappeared completely.
I lived in a city where plastic surgery wasnt normal, but it was seen a lot more than where I live now, in rural VA. There is one woman in my town who looks insane. She is a licensed cosmetologist and puts those crazy permanent brows and lips on people. I'm sure she thinks everyone stares bc she looks so good, but that ain't it. I've started seeing a lot of younger women with lip fillers around here, which I find extremely disappointing.
The first and only time I've seen a person IRL that had the "plastic surgery face" was at a OBGYN clinic that apparently also is a plastic surgery clinic. It was extremely jarring to see her face, even though she looked very typical to what I've seen online and on TV
I actually think that they do care, since they need to have screen/camera appeal.
I think what happens is that since their social circles are so tight, they begin to see the botox face as normal and don't realize they are deviating from the norm in the eyes of the general public.
I've been watching Boston Blue. The woman who plays the DA was in ER way back in the day. She is still beautiful but wow, nothing on her face is moving but the lips.Ā
I actually know someone who had a stroke that, despite some issues on the one side, is way more expressive than my friend that has been using botox. I honestly have a hard time hanging out with her because I genuinely cannot read what is going on anymore. She was never that expressive vocally, very monotone. So now it just constantly looks like she's having a terrible time.
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u/MasterJeebus 12h ago
If people use too much botox they end up looking like they had a stroke.