/bjuːtɪ/ : Not the Plastic Approach

May I interest you in a surgical procedure  in which I scrape away at your bones and inject chemicals into your body? Or you might also know it as plastic surgery, where you can be able to have a slight understanding of how Barbie feels like.

Being a part of a Korean family, it is no surprise when you see someone on TV or a close friend have their nose or eyes "done". It is because the idea of beauty plays such a big role in the South Korean society. I have had certain friends and family members suggest to me\ that when I visit Korea, they know a surgical hospital where they do natural-looking nose jobs at a good price. What struck me the most was that they said it as if they were talking about the weather! Almost every celebrity, both men and women,  has done at least one feature on their face and it has become such a trend that there are middle schooler's parents that take their child out to get a nose job as a graduation gift at the age of 13.....Of course then there's me that received a cupcake for a graduation gift.

The idea of beauty has lost it's meaning over time but it has come as no surprise to me that people are going as far as morphing our natural face in order to reach society's definition of "having the goods". Is it not agreeable that as the more time goes by, the more better looking people come around? It sounds silly but  as we see all sorts of variations of gorgeous groups of men and women, it is in the human nature to be considered the most pleasurable. But it is all ironic because beauty means to be alluring with individuality. The idea of attractiveness is to have characteristics that stand out from others, to be different. The only way to achieve true charms is not through a needle but with self-discipline. In the end, it does not matter about having the perfect nose or having a definite jawline, but more of the inner beauty.

These were the candidates for the 2014 Korean Beauty pageant. Notice each of their totally different facial structures. There are called Korean Barbies for obvious reasons.