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They Removed Their Buccal Fat. Now They're Paying to Get It Back

Laura Jane Atelier

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They called it contouring. Then they called it optimization. What they never warned you was that buccal fat removal is permanent — and that permanent has a price tag that comes due much later.

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This essay examines why buccal fat removal became the defining cosmetic surgery of the 2020s: what it promises, what it quietly erases, and why the same faces that paid to have fat removed in 2021 are now paying to have it restored through fillers and fat grafting. From the algorithmic architecture of the screen-native face — where high-contrast angles are rewarded and natural volume is penalized — to the historical precedent of Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, whose angular faces were constructed for black-and-white cinematography, not biological longevity, we trace the full arc of a beauty trend that confused a camera filter for a biological truth.Facial volume is not a flaw to be corrected. It is the very mechanism through which a face ages with grace. Removing it at 25 does not freeze beauty in time. It borrows against a future the surgery will one day make you pay for. The 2020s will be remembered as the Frozen Decade — the era when an entire generation made permanent structural decisions in service of a temporary algorithm.

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20 Comments

@CCT-789 3 months ago

It doesn't even look chic at 25. It instantly ages them at least a decade, and sometimes two or three.

@RachelDoesntknow 3 months ago

This is just handsome squidward

@debiedebsielein3264 3 months ago

Each one of them looked better before! Crazy, just crazy 🙄

@ChocoCarmelApple 3 months ago

Like my body isn’t perfect but it’s mine and it’s okay. as it is

@olggbot 3 months ago

i hate how this makes people look like they're sucking in their cheeks at all times. idk how people think it looks good in any way...

@janetbryan2060 3 months ago

It saddens me when actors do things like this to their face when mobility is so essential to their craft.

@BADECO2-u3u 3 months ago (edited)

It's interesting since the softer rounder face is a youthful face.
I remember the thin eyebrows. Some women brows never grew back.

@petalsonthemoon_ 3 months ago

Idk why they are rushing to get it removed. Their cheeks are gonna cave eventually with aging. And the irony of it all is that they wanna prevent aging while doing everything to look like they crawled out of the crypt

@kristenhurst683 3 months ago

I'm older, I wear less makeup and am happy to be free from fads. Stay true to yourself, it's very attractive.

@spusulri 3 months ago

Called it!! plastic surgery is a revolving door. you pay to undo and fix shit you should never had tried to fix

@JayS-i1g 3 months ago

On some of them they do look corpse-like, like the way skin shrinks to the bones as a body decays. Especially around the mouth.

@desireeeeam 3 months ago

Correction: sometimes the brows don’t grow back 😂

@Philoishness 3 months ago

This has always been crazy to me. as a round faced chubby woman, I get mistaken for younger a lot and I truly believe it's because of the natural volume in my face

@GoldenGraham25 3 months ago

Why you’d want to erase youthfulness to have the natural progression of what age brings is crazy.

@bear211 3 months ago

Anya Taylor-Joy was straight up disfigured.

@custardcustard 3 months ago

The idea of permanently changing your face for a trend is unnerving. We know trends die, we've seen it happen over and over in our own lifetimes. Contouring the cheekbones is a great, temporary, way to be on trend.

@divaen 3 months ago

I just want to be healthy

@Missunderstood103 3 months ago

What blows me away is that make up can give you that look. So why alter your body permanently when you can literally contour, build the cheek bones with a good set of brushes? This is just so sad.

@Dazai.Simp. 3 months ago

It's sad that perfectly fine looking people feel insecure enough to pay thousands of dollars to alter their appearance permanently :(

@FireChildSlytherin5 3 months ago

My grandmother told me she was told by her doctor that she needed to smoke during her pregnancies as smoking costes smaller babies which means "easier" labor.

Crazy how we view the past decisions.