Last week, Hungary held a beauty pageant with a twist. All of the contestants were required to have undergone plastic surgery! You can read about this "beauty" pageant
here. I put the word beauty in quotation marks because I have always considered beauty pageants to be a showcase of
natural beauty and especially,
inner beauty. Many of the contestants sported nose jobs, breast augmentation, Botox, or "surgically-adjusted toes".
Hungary put on this pageant to reduce the negative connotations of plastic surgery. I think it puts way too much emphasis on physical beauty. What irks me the most is this quote by plastic surgeon, Dr. Rozsos, " "This about restoring harmony ... eliminating asymmetries and giving women the opportunity to have normal features." What?
So the rest of us who didn't go under the knife have abnormal features? Big boobs, puffy lips, and wrinkle-free faces are all normal features we want to have? What's interesting to note is that the winning contestant's plastic surgeons also received prize money.
What are your thoughts and opinions on this plastic surgery-only pageant?
Comments (9)
I really dont think all plastic surgery is bad. I think it would have been much cooler if all of the contestants had been in an accident or something that caused a deformity that they had fixed.
@der_lila_Stern@xanga - To me, plastic surgery (for purely cosmetic purposes) says, "I am not happy with my body. I don't have to accept the way I am, so I will pay a lot of $$$ for someone to fix it." And I agree, that would have been a much more worthwhile pageant. Haha, not one of the contestants wished ardently for world peace.
To me, the biggest problem with this are the "surgically-adjusted toes"...
Actually, this post just screams to me because I JUST finished reading "Uglies" by Scott Westerfield...really weird. I literally read the last page only a few hours ago. It's all about focusing on physical beauty and how EVERYONE is born ugly and remain so until they reach their 16th birthday when they get to (have to) have severe plastic surgery performed to make them pretty so they can "grow up" and move to "New Pretty Town" (from age 12-16, kids live in "Uglyville").
So yeah, I can honestly say that now was the best time for me to come across this entry since this pageant could be what ignites society into thinking that surgery is necessary for anyone to truly be beautiful and that natural things like asymmetries are ugly.
-Tina
It's a marketing scheme.
@deathroses_x@xanga - I think I've heard of that story before, but have never gotten around to reading it. I'll definitely have to check it out! A long time ago, I went to a science center and they had this game machine that took pictures of your face. The screen had a line running down the middle and you had to line up the middle of your own face with the line. After it snapped the picture, it would show you how your face would look like if it was perfectly symmetrical-using only the right side of your face. Then it would show you your new face with the left side as well. I don't know how other people's faces would look, but my new symmetrically faces were so different from each other! I had no idea my right half looked so different than my left half of the face. Both symmetrical results just looked...weird. It makes me think that asymmetries are more beautiful.
@Southeast_Beauty@xanga - That's exactly how the whole thing sounds. Even the surgeons got prize money--crazy!
@RoAngie467 - yepyepyep. once again, they use a "game" like that to determine how to design their pretty faces. they split their faces in half and duplicate each side. they describe it like each side of a person's face is a personality trait; when the right side is doubled, she looks angrier, but the left side doubled is softer. XD
It's true, asymmetries are beautiful and actually humans find faces that are too symmetrical to be slightly disturbing. ;)
-Tina
@deathroses_x@xanga - LOL, you type like my sister. She's always saying, "Yepyepyep."
@RoAngie467 - hmmm.. is that a good thing? and okay thing?...or not? ;P