Do you think that plastic surgery is helping people's confidence?

[Anonymous]

[Lynx122]

I dunno if you need to cut yourself open for your confidence then there's probably other problems you should look into first. And I've seen PLENTY of people who looked great and ruined their beauty through PS so fuck that.
Latest example:
Yoojung
She had such a cute and unique nose and her expressions were so cute too... I didn't care about the group I. O. I. but she was definitely my favorite I even considered becoming a fan of the group she went to after only because of her but I couldn't do it they were just not good enough.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pQLujNfeblU

I didn't think about her for a while but a week ago I was like what's going on with her and what did I see? Look at her nose!!! It's actually the same person I know it's hard to tell. She looks like every korean girl that's had a nose job nothing unique at all and she doesn't even have the same expressions anymore because her face is fake. It's sad if you ask me. And this is a successful surgery where nothing went wrong and also not someone who's had too many surgeries those look way worse but even a succesful surgery can destroy your face in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9g4sZVcE2lY

If you follow Kpop you will see too many people who do unnnecessary surgeries and ruin their face it's really sad but PS is so common there that the bad cases increase in number as well. There are good examples too but I'm just against it in principle it just feels wrong in my gut I can't stand it.

[Browneye57]

Surely it might, for a fleeting moment. Then what? Where and when does it stop? Where do you draw the line.
Newsflash toots - we're all going to get old and die. No one is getting out alive. NO ONE.

[nathanp97]

Confidence is not caring what others think of you, so I would argue that it doesn't help with your confidence, and if anything shows that you aren't confident.

[Browneye57]

@nathanp97 - Well, sure, for the confident. But we're talkin' bubble-headed bimbos here and their celebrity worship and comparo shtick.

[Afrenchgirl]

I would say yes and no. Yes, because it fixs some flaws and you feel better, but it’s temporary. No, because then you develop other insecurities than you want to fix as well. It is an endless circle. Your insecurities are in your head, so you have to learn how to love yourself to feel better in your body, plastic surgery can resolve your body image issues.
I have a friend who started surgery as a teen, nose then breast. She seems more confident but she still doesn’t seem to love herself and to deal with new insecurities (she now exercises a lot and want to be really thin).
If you want to make plastic surgery, let you some time to think about it. Try to love yourself, and then see if you still want to do it.
Natural beauty is beautiful !

[Afrenchgirl]

Oh and NO because you can see than even insta girls and celebrities who had surgery still use a lot of makeup and editing app (facetune, photoshop).

[anniisa]

I've heard people often start to look find new insecurities after getting it done the first time. For instance, if someone had a nose job. After that's been healed they will start nitpicking at other things that they never had a problem with before. That's why people who get these procedures done often overdo it in the end.

So it depends. It definitely doesn't help with everyone's confidence, and can make it worse. But for the people who don't become addicted to plastic surgery, I'm sure it helps a lot.

[NaultD]

I got a front tooth implant (#8) at 19 im now 27. In terms of utility i was able to use "th" sounding words again and my lettuce from my burgers not pulling out of my burger. I only dealt with that for a year. That cost me $5000 dollars. I'm going to call that "the greatest investment" I've ever made. Evan after buying a house.

The mental bandwidth sacrificed during that time was more valuable then $5000 for a year, let alone a life time. If every step you take or interaction holds you back, these investments are not crazy. An endless anxiety turns into an offhand discussion every now and again. That is nothing less then the investment that you need in life to move forward.

[nawtee_me]

The lack of confidence is not something plastic can fix, period! A lift here and a tuck there, a nose job, a butt job and sooner or later you don't even look like your parents. You look like you were adopted... Lack of confidence comes from not being okay with who you really are and changing your appearance doesn't change who you are.
If you look in a mirror and think you need to change something on the outside, then you better look on the inside to find out why? That is where the answer is, and that is where you start to build your confidence.

[Anonymous]

No. At that moment when they have done the surgery yes they will be very happy. But after a while and when they grow up they'll start thinking "look at me. I've changed my body and put this and that just so people like me. How foolish I was" and start thinking they are living a fake life and so on. That's my opinion anyways

[Flower7]

That girl in the first picture looks like a COMPLETELY different person before and after! And as for your question, yes I do think plastic surgery helps people's confidence. Probably the only reason it wouldn't is if it didn't come out right or didn't end up looking how they expected it to.

[hellacray]

How does it help?

Plastic surgery was meant for people with disfigurements. But it seems like most people that use it are getting things done because they don't like how something looks.

And besides plastic surgery sometimes make you look worst than before.

Changing how you look doesn't really convince me that you're confident in yourself.

[jlee18]

I think it’s making people feel insecure. People feel they need to look like that person. That person had a ton of work done. There is nothing wrong with wanting to look good and live a healthy life style but I wish people loved their natural Beauty both men and woman. I also wish expectations for what people should look like would end.

[chris0977]

No because confidence can only come from within, this encourages dependence on superficial features to increase likelihood society will want, value, and approve... imagine if everyone makes fun of the surgery after... this sends the message value & self-worth should be built around action taht increases approval (in a competitive sense) in the eyes of others.

[vannefftor]

Its disgraceful. Plastic surgery is one thing for people who need it with burns or scars etc, but cosmetic surgery for the sport is no different than dysphoria. A girl is brainwashed enough by the makeup ads and beauty standards that she disfigures her generic features and reppaces them with kardashian ones. I think its honestly very very sad

[lifelearner011]

Maybe yes, maybe no. I can't judge anyone based in plastic surgery. What I've perceived is that people who do it at a young age, for esthetic purposes, in my opinion, might be at more vulnerability emotionally. I think is a big decision, if it's made early on its too invasive.

[broken_heart_at_48]

I think in some cases it's a physical health issue and important but if someone is wanting to have something done for themselves and the doctor evaluates them first to make sure they don't have a warped self image then cool but if they have a warped sense of themselves or are doing it for some guy or some girl then it's a mistake but regardless we shouldn't put all of our worth I'm our appearance just as we shouldn't just value someone just by their appearance there's so much more to a person

[angeliquedevereux2]

If you don't like something about your appearance, I love the we live a world where you can change that! If whenever you look in the mirror and hate your nose, a surgery can help your confidence. It's just sad that plastic surgery gets such flack from people saying only rich celebrities or people who hate themselves do it. Sometimes people just want to look at themselves in the mirror and not think their ass is flat or their lips are small.

[CubsterShura]

It can help with confidence if your low self-esteem is because you're insecure about an actual physical feature, but if the underlying cause for your lack of confidence has internal reasons rather than superficial ones, then no.

[OpenWine]

my nose is a mix of 1 and 4. it got broken 2 times by myself and one time by some drunk dude. and then broken again by the hospital to fix the placement.

shit looked swollen for almost a year but now it kind of looks fine on my face even tho it's a little big can't be too pretty it ain't gonna bring luck

[Shuri]

I like how all the photos are of women who received plastic surgery as if celebrity men don't do it just as much lol.

But to answer the question, yes, I do think it can. I also think it can harm it, though. It really depends on the mental state of the person.

[DestinyElizabeth04]

It helps their physical confidence for about 2 seconds before the media releases more magazines and commercials about the next best thing; resulting in them once again feeling ugly and leading to more plastic surgery.

[ZackBan]

Plastic surgery is an art form in which you're a canvas and your surgeon is the artist. If he's good you're good and if he's bad you're bad and either way there's not much you can do about it

[jgirl99]

Depends on how drastic it is, cause basically its just sending the messages that u have to have surgery to be beautiful, instead of accepting and embellishing our natural beauty. Especially in all these pics, the befores are WAYYY better than the afters

[crazy8000]

External confidence.
Not internal.
The thing is that it will fade and they are back at square one again.
The same when it happens something for instance accident.

An other thing gonna be their offspring.

[Akshayjosh]

Many times the external confidence will boost the internal

[crazy8000]

When they lose what gave the bost they lose the artificial internal that actually was external all the time in the belief of it was internal.

Solid internal are created from ourselves in our minds ;)

[Akshayjosh]

Agree...
But on the other hand the internal confidence much of it comes from forced acceptance that was long pending, maybe it wouldn't be a cause of worry for you but others might still see that as pity

[BCA6010]

If it makes them feel better, then fine. In all of these cases however, it's obvious they've had work done and the blatant fake-ness tends to be a turn-off.

[Daisy007]

Yes!! Or else they wouldn't keep doing it... they "fix" what they don't like about themselves, as long as it's not excessive, and if they have the money for it then you do you 🤷‍♀️