How facial anxiety is triggering a cosmetic surgery boom
A year of Zoom meetings and face filters has distorted our view of ourselves. Now cosmetic clinics are seeing a jump in bookings before the June reopening.
If I wanted to, I could probably calculate exactly how many days I’ve had good skin as an adult. It’d roughly equate to six months: from the end of summer 2019 – when an aesthetician convinced me to stop using the aggressive skincare products I was accustomed to – until March 2020. You can already guess what ended it: the pandemic destroyed any sense of balance in my life, including on my face. From spring last year, I had skin like an unlucky teenage boy, with acne across my chin and cheeks that, even if I didn’t aggravate it, still managed to stick around for weeks and scar.