Quick-fix culture has made it seem easier than ever to change your appearance.
Here, we explore the mental health and cultural impacts.
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But you could only stray so far from how you naturally look.
If you’re willing to pay for it.
But at what cost?
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The world is full of pressures to look a certain way.
But on the other hand, the feeling that everybodys doing it!
has paved the way for a new pressureeven if subliminallyaround partaking that can have far-reaching implications.
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There is, however, a way to approach it that wont necessarily serve you.
Its all about where it comes from.
That sales pitch, it seems, is working.
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All of this is a problem.
And then that makes it all the more out of reach, because the standard is continuously moving.
Quick-fix culture has the power to help pretty privilege and anti-fat bias endure.
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Theres this feeling of, If Icanimprove this thing, maybe Ishould, says Kneeland.
What feels crucially different now are the mental health implications.
But even then, it’s nuanced.
Ultimately, the powerisin your handsbut with that power comes responsibility.
“What it comes down to is that people’s personal choices are their choices,” says Sole-Smith.
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