Instead of toting photographs of Victoria’s Secret supermodels or celebrities such as Kim Kardashian to the plastic surgeon’s office, people are taking their filtered selfies to the doctor.
“This is a huge trend,” New York City–based surgeon Elie Levine told the New York Daily News on Wednesday. “People are bringing in pictures of themselves taken at a favorite angle or filtered and saying they want to look like that.”
It’s pretty incredible to see how our modern-day obsession with perfection can bubble up from something as seemingly inocuous as the choice between Valencia and X-Pro II.
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This article was originally published on www.takepart.com, on Feb 4, 2015. Read the complete article here.
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