489: Buccal Fat Removal and Nose Gap for the face: Trendy or Traumatic?

 Broad hips, thin waists, larger busts/butts- there’s always an unrealistic beauty

standard that most women are faced with and are expected to live up to. We begin nitpicking what we don’t like about ourselves, what we wish we could change, and that is difficult enough as it is. Queue TikTok trends. With social media and the internet so easily accessible, it’s hard not to get caught up in harmful body image. Beauty trends like buccal fat removal and nose gaps (first seen in the likes of Lea Michelle and Chrissy Teigen) add even more unattainable expectations to women’s ideology of beauty. Let’s talk about it.