Social Beauty R

Hello. My name is Ana Castillo and I will be

covering my researching this presentation.

So for my research I decided to do social media

in cosmetic surgery.

I believe that social media is growing every day and

it's not going anywhere so supportive for us to understand

and know how it's affecting our youth and everybody around

us. Yeah.

A literature review consisted of looking at research that tied

cosmetic surgery and social media such as celebrities, athletes and

just your basic every day to day advertisement popularity of

social media photo editing has had a significant impact on

the field of cosmetic surgery.

For example, a survey of facial plastic surgeons found that

55% of surgeons reported seeing patients who requested to improve

appearances in selfies.

So in today's world we live with filters, filters is

just a little bit uh what social media is kind

of throwing out there to society like this can be

you like you can look like this.

And I believe that this is just a small little

way of starting advertisement without people even realizing it.

Just the other day, I was looking through my filters

and I'm scrolling through them and I get a filter

that gives me great eyes.

Never even knew what I looked like with gray eyes.

After that I found myself researching permanent solution to for

me to have gray eyes and even me as an

adult, very comfortable with who I am and I love

the way that I look.

But when you get to experience little things like that,

it definitely starts to bring in some curiosity of like

man, I couldn't walk around every day with gray eyes.

There's no need for me to just have a filter

when I can look like this.

Every day.

As I was looking at my research, I intended to

only focus on cosmetic surgery.

But it's important to understand how social media is able

to influence people so much so that they're willing to

commit to cosmetic surgery.

And we start to look at the how and the

why this is where the psychological problems come into play.

Because social media has such a big influence on everybody

differently that you get to experience depression and anxiety just

by simply feeling like you don't fit in by feeling

that you're not receiving the attention that everybody else is.

And that's really what a major key, especially for our

youth, because our Children's minds are so open to whatever

they see.

I believe that when they see other people getting all

of this attention and all of these likes, they're willing

to do whatever they have to do.

And I say youth, but in today's society really goes

for all ages, people see other people getting attention and

and becoming rich just by how many people are watching

them. They're willing to do whatever that they have to

do to get those same likes to get those same

views. And most of the times is it is just

simply fitting that cookie cutter image of what beauty is

supposed to be.

And most of the times it's physical was, you know,

body wise man are supposed to be tall and muscular,

while women are supposed to have big breasts and a

slim waist and taking the thighs.

So you're you're willing to do whatever in cosmetic surgery

is it's nothing, it's just a small step toward where

it's the bigger picture which is gaining the follower is

gaining the likes having all that attention on you constantly.

For my research.

I decided to do a agree disagree questionnaire.

I believe this was the best way for me to

get clearer answers.

and I was able to analyze not only the overall

project but I was able to look at each individual

question. So most of the questions focused on not not

only how did you get the idea of getting cosmetic

surgery but also why?

So I try to cover most of it.

And I also focused on covering if you would be

willing to do it again.

Like if you were you happy with your results, would

you do something different?

How would you do something different?

So I think that that's important in order to turn

my data into numerical data.

I I analysed research questions by a five point scale

system with strong degree being one And strongly disagree being

five points.

So as we titled titled up two points the person

would be the lowest numbers or more likely to have

a correlation of social media affecting their results of cosmetic

surgery. Where people with the higher points, there was more

of a disconnect more of a difference and the reason

on why they committed to their surgery.

The results as as expected, there was definitely a positive

correlation with social media in cosmetic surgery also with depression

and anxiety.

So the data revealed that women were more open to

surgery in order to achieve their desired body.

The study would lead to questions as to how social

media is it back and teens, kids and adults.

I believe that it's important to know what we're up

against. The generation after us was raised completely different.

I have a sister that is only five years younger

than me and she lives on her phone.

I mean we go out to eat.

She's taking pictures of her meals were getting dressed, she's

taking pictures of her getting dressed once where you know,

it's it's completely different and even I find myself sometimes

being a stranger to it and it's so normal for

it's so natural for her to pull out her phone

and take a picture of everything that we eat.

Take a picture of everything that we see and and

I'm only a couple of years younger than her.

But this is why we need to focus on how

society is changing, how society is adapting to our new

technology to our new forms of media and finally our

discussion. So the agree disagree survey that I chose to

do. I believe it was the best way to collect

the data that I was needing to collect.

However, there are limitations to it and this one in

particular, it is the measurement that can be compromised with

social desirability.

Nobody really likes to admit that they're doing something because

of somebody else.

And today we are really big on being an individual.

Yet we're all following the same thing, right?

Because we're all seeing the same thing on social media.

So that's what we want to do.

That's what we want to be.

And in this case, perfect athletes and celebrities, they always

show the good, never show the bad.

So in everybody's eyes, they're living a perfect life.

Even me as a hairstylist.

I'll have clients that will come in and show me

somebody else's work and they want me to replicate the

same thing, but they'll tweak something here and there to

make it their own.

So we all want to be individuals and we all

want to be ourselves following somebody else's steps.

I hope that collecting all of this data and seeing

how big of an influence social media has on people,

we're able to investigate a little bit more on what

restrictions can be put in or how we can move

different as a society at all to make sure that

kids aren't exposed to what they're not supposed to be

and adults or being adults and responsible about what they

share and about what they post, because you never really

know who's watching and you don't know how they can

affect somebody else.

I personally believe that certain app should be for adults,

and certain app should be for kids as a hairstylist.

I post all of my work and I love to

see reviews and I love my clients sharing my work,

but that's not the same for everybody.

Everybody doesn't use social media the same.

And I think it's important for us to have that

responsibility on ourselves because in the thousands of followers and

the thousands of you don't know who's watching you, you

don't know what you say might affect somebody else.

And of course they can always remove themselves.

But when it's a kid and they're idolizing you without

you even knowing, then that's when it becomes a problem.

You might pose Pictures of you going out to drink

and now you have a 19 year old that thinks

it's cool to go out and get drunk.

And and because that's what they see you do and

your role model without even knowing it.

So it is definitely important for us to see how

social media is affecting everybody.

All the advertising, all the cosmetic surgery procedures that are

becoming more public.

And as I mentioned, even a simple pictures of going

out to drink, we have to come together for the

next generation to come.

So we could be able to help them in the

issues that they face which will always be a little

different than ours and moving.

I hope that research like mine and others that I

have put together, it's able to make a difference for

somebody. It's able to change somebody's mind or it's able

to help somebody understand why they feel the way that

they feel.

Nobody lives a perfect life.

Nobody has a cookie cutter image.

And even if you pay for it, you're not yourself,

you're not being you.

It's it's okay to live who you are and it's

okay to beat you.

And finally, I just want to say thank you.

I will let you guys look at my references.

Any feedback would be really appreciated.

This class was really helpful.

Usually research is one of my weakest subjects, but I

really did enjoy the breakdown of this class.

I think I was able to take this research projects

that myself and get a better understanding of what a

professional paper is supposed to look like.

This is my last class, since my last semester, I

will be graduating August 14, and I am hoping to

move on to get my Masters and eventually my PhD.

So this class has been very helpful.

Thank you.

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