/plastic-surgery-means-many-beauty-queen

  • Plastic Surgery Means Many Beauty Queens, But Only One Kind of Face - Jezebel
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    The pictures of the Miss Korea contestants have gone viral over the past 48 hours, showing up on a Japanese blog, then Reddit, and now major international papers. It’s obvious that people are stunned, mesmerized, intrigued and incredulous by just how much the contestants look alike. ShenTheWise who originally posted images of the women on Reddit wrote: “Korea’s plastic surgery mayhem is finally converging on the same face.”

    While this incredibly narrow definition of beauty is unnerving, it’s not something Koreans have cornered the market on: Take Victoria’s Secret 2012 What Is Sexy? list. Most of the women named were skinny, blonde, with big eyes, narrow noses and wide smiles. And it’s not just VS: Over the past few years, the covergals on American ladymags have been a homogenous bunch, and the high fashion runways in New York are not very diverse. Even though we’re a nation populated by folks from different countries and of various ethnicities, the women elevated to fame and fortune — the ones chosen to market fashion and beauty products, the ones we, collectively, as a nation, have deemed beautiful — have a very definite, uniform and similar look.

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