Cosmetic Changes
“Beauty” is the theme of women’s eternal concerns. But different culture may have different attitudes… Many women are interested in fashion, makeup, skin care as they wish to become beautiful and attractive. But, as we are all aware, female desire for beauty is rather laborious part of becoming woman today and always already embedded in the system of market economy. Cultural scholar Meredith Jones notes, “I suggest here that cultures of media, fashion, celebrity, and cosmetic surgery are built around a dominant trope in consumerism: namely, a creative tension between two and three dimensions.” But obviously there is another social institute that affects their bodies more directly than putting on clothes and make-up. The Economist researched recent plastic surgery trends worldwide. The results shows that South Korea came the top country with the highest ratio of population in which 13 out of every thousand people experienced operation until 2011; and next came Greece and Italy. But the largest number of cases was found in the United States, where more than three million operations have done operation.
When women consider having cosmetic surgery, their motives perhaps can be categorized into two groups. Firstly it’s anti-aging. Facial wrinkles, sun spots and the breast lift are done for rejuvenation, in which women over 35 years old are interested. Secondly it’s for improving the figure. Face line, nose job and breast augmentation are for changing their natural figures which women under 34 years old prefer to do. In a word, the difference between these two lies in whether applicants want to look younger, or radically alter their appearance. But first of all, what are the most beautiful women for us? Marie Claire published a survey about women’s age and it said “They say life improves with every decade, so good news for the thirtysomethings amongst us, after a new survey reveals women feel at their most beautiful aged 32.” The article explained that at 32 they felt their life had the perfect combination of confidence gained from life experience, an active love life and the enjoyment of eating and drinking sensibly. So beauty and life experience together (not youth alone) can create an attractive confident woman.