The Ugly Girl Era Has Begun (Thank God)
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You want glass skin? I'll give you glass skin. How to train your face to stop moving. I did my own Botox for the very first time.
Chances are you have an asymmetrical face.
You need to be doing everything in your power to be as attractive as possible.
I was served a TikTok the other day and it was from a 26-year-old. She was on her way to her Botox appointment and she was talking about how she hadn't gotten Botox in more than a year and she was so appalled with herself. And then she shared all of the beauty things that she was doing for the rest of the day. She was getting her face lasered. She was getting her eyebrows and her eyelashes tinted. And again, she is 26 years old. She had the skin of a 26-year-old. And that video tipped me. I am all about people being able to do whatever they want with their bodies and their faces. And I think that the hot girl era is coming to an end. I think that we're entering our ugly girl era and there's some really convincing science as to why this is about to happen.
So today we're going to get into the three factors that have led us to this tipping point, this ugly girl era that we're on the precipice of. Social media, the widespread availability of things that alter our appearances like GLP-1s, veneers, and plastic surgery, and A.I., We're going to talk about how we got here, what we're going to societally consider beautiful next, and what you can do with all of this, how you can feel as good as possible in your face and your skin and your body today. Welcome to the Liz Moody Podcast, where we believe that there is always something that you can do to create a life that feels amazing, and we help you figure out how to find the lever to pull at any moment to actually do that.
First up, social media. There are a few different impacts social media is having on beauty and the pressure that we have to perform beauty. I think the first and most simple one is just knowing what's available. When I was in my 20s, I honestly am not sure that I knew that Botox existed. I certainly didn't know about any of the laser treatment or all the crazy skincare available. I think I was like still scrubbing my face with the St. Ives apricot cleanser in the orange bottle, which apparently is terrible for your skin. When I was in my 20s, you would read a magazine and kind of find out about celebrity skincare routines and like little recommendations from editors here and there. You would maybe get a recommendation from a friend.
But social media takes any niche thing that is available and it amplifies it to millions and millions and millions of people. And here's the more insidious part that I think we do not talk about enough. Wellness influencers, beauty influencers, lifestyle influencers need new things to talk about constantly. They are incentivized by their audiences and the algorithm and brands to constantly find and promote new services, new treatments. They get views by saying, oh, I just found this new laser and I tried it and now look at my skin. They get views by saying, oh, I found this vibrating plate. New things capture your attention and we are in an attention economy. Wash your face and wear sunscreen does not capture attention.
This is a downside of an attention economy that people do not talk about enough. It incentivizes constantly seeking out new information and products and ideas and opinions where there might not have actually needed to be anything. So let's follow the chain of that. Something like a salmon sperm facial becomes available because companies need to constantly constantly create new stuff since they're trying to make money in an attention economy.
Why is the 'hot girl era' coming to an end?
And they pitch it to an influencer and the influencer is incentivized to talk about it because they have to be able to get attention to keep their job. So they make a video, they post it, and all of a sudden you are not only hearing about a salmon sperm facial for the first time, you wouldn't have necessarily heard about it at all if this influencer was not trying to capture your attention in that way.
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