The rapid rise of the cosmetic surgery industry has seen much controversy and there are a variety of strong anti-plastic surgery statements being made to help fight this industry's continued growth. Modern society is obsessed with the ideas of perfection and body image and women go to extreme measures such as plastic surgery to achieve this perfection. This is largely attributable to the importance the media places on these superficial ideals. Despite the unrealistic and unattainable standards of beauty set out by society, humans are willing to do almost anything to look a certain way, from undergoing unhealthy eating habits to attaining excessive cosmetic surgeries.
Implications - The prioritization of beauty over health has many medical professionals, activists and even advertisers going to extreme measures to showcase the dangers of these body modification techniques in the hopes of encouraging the general public to embrace their natural bodies and looks, or to modify them in healthy, sustainable ways. Ad campaigns, editorials, sculptures and compilation albums of plastic surgeries gone wrong are just a few examples of these measures, that are slowly encouraging society and women to consider the consequences of body modification.
20 Anti-Plastic Surgery Statements
From Intense Beauty Campaigns to Extreme Surgery Photoshoots:
Corinne Guirgis — Jun 24, 2011 — Fashion
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Exaggerated Runway Faces
Mi Lajki's Spring Summer 2011 Collection is Eerily Unsettling
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Extreme Plastic Surgery Shoots
'A New Kind of Beauty' by Mr. Toledano Features Enhanced Individual
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Plastic Surgery Obsession Ads
Chevrolet Jabs
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The V64 Spring 2010 'Mirror Mirror' Spread is Plastic
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Real Beauty
Dove Video Shows Evolution from Real Woman to Billboard Model
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Dina Goldstein Unveils Modern Truths in the Fallen Princesses Project
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Crystal Renn by Tom Ford Makes Bizarre Bandage Spreads
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Plastic Surgery Sculptures
The Marc Quinn Exhibition Takes Art to Insane Measures
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Bohyun Yoon Explores the Human Body With Plexiglas for 'Fragmentation'
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Incisive Plastic Surgery Photography
Zen Moments Series by Nienke Klunder Shows Sad Emotions
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Flesh Moving Photography
Inventive Photo Techniques as a Way to Confront The Body
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Surgery-Ready Shoots
Masha Voronina Tush Winter Beautifies Cosmetic Surgery
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Viral Beauty Campaign
Dove Self-Esteem Fund
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Shoulder Architecture
Dis Magazine Predicts Shoulder Plastic Surgery as the Next Big Thing
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Hacksaw Surgery Shoots
Peter Kemp Captures a Crazed Cosmetic Surgeon in the Act
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Face Made of Human Bodies
Who Do You Think You Are Ad
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Beauty Botching
10 Disastrous Plastic Surgeries
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Video Projections on People
Verlopen
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China Bans Plastic Surgery Reality Shows
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Reverse Liposuction
Stretch-and-Blow Liposuction May Solve World Hunger Issue
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