Host Antoinette Latouf examines the explosive growth of fillers and injectables from different angles in the documentary Prisma: The Star of Beauty.
TV magazine’s assessment is: Unfortunately, there is nothing new in the fact that social media with its filters destroys self-confidence, distorts the perception of one’s own body image and even more Inspires to apply for fillers and injections.
Prisma’s documentary For Beauty’s Sake (Forever Young: The Rise of Injectables, 2022) is not satisfied with merely examining the phenomenon from the perspective of those who use injectable treatments, but brings an entirely new angle to the topic. .
The pandemic has dramatically increased concerns about appearance. The reason for this is workplace video calls like Zoom and Teams. Host Antoinette Latoff interviewed researcher Gemma Sharp on the topic, according to whom more than a third of people are concerned about their appearance in a new way.
Sharp explains that people tend to pay attention to distracting features on their face or neck during video meetings. Latofkin explains that the tilted viewing angle of the computer’s front camera is not pleasing to its users.
– This is called zoom effect or zoom dysmorphia.
Without telling Latoff, Sharp conducted a test on him during the interview. The thermal camera shows how the presenter looked mainly at his face and chin during the video call – rather than looking towards Sharp.
The presenter admits to getting Botox every three months. Photo: Yale
A voluntary test group has been selected for the program, whose faces will be injected with Botox for the first time. Before Botox treatment, volunteers undergo a test in which they have to interpret people’s facial expressions and emotional states. In this, participants resort to micro-simulation while thinking about a solution.
After that, they get Botox between the eyebrows and in the corners of the eyes and come back in a couple of weeks to do another test. The test showed that it was clearly more difficult for the participants to recognize facial expressions. After Botox he performed five percent worse at work. Naming facial expressions became 20 percent slower.
According to the researchers, testing showed that the treatments could significantly disrupt interactions between people. If you don’t know how to correctly interpret the other person’s facial expressions, the associated emotion may go unnoticed and you may lose the ability to empathize, at least temporarily.
One of the interviewees is Gavin Chan, a doctor in the field of aesthetics, who has observed that fillers stay in the body longer than imagined. Others have them for up to 12 years.
Antoinette Latouf knows those who talk about the use of fillers. Photo: Yale
– He explains that a permanent or semi-permanent substance is much more dangerous than a temporary substance.
In the programme, Latoff tries to find out where the explosive popularity of injection treatments and the pursuit of youth comes from. He meets 47-year-old Amanda (stage name Samantha X), who works as an escort and has also had cosmetic surgery.
– When I started as Samantha, I thought men wanted a young and big-breasted woman, but the desire was the opposite. The first desire of our office is a natural looking woman.
He presented his old photographs in the program and admitted that he could not even recognize himself in them. Amanda knows the disadvantages of Botox and its cost.
– I have thought about whether I should accept aging. “I’ve accepted it, but I still don’t want to look old,” he explains.
The program Prisma: Kaunuden Sjöridur will be shown on Tuesday, 21 November. TV1 at 19:00.
