Gender vagueness is a modern trend in aesthetic medicine

The topic of gender and gender differences is being raised more and more often today in articles in fashion magazines and at cosmetology congresses dedicated to contouring and botulinum therapy. There are patients who come with a non-standard request for the correction of facial features, and there are many of them. For example, women are asked to highlight the angle of the lower jaw or a clearer angular chin. When men go to the clinic, they want to look younger by erasing wrinkles from their faces.

If until recently it was believed that wrinkles adorn a man and make him more brutal, now the trend of our time – youth and beauty. Why is this happening? The answer to this question was given by the prominent Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. In his works, he wrote that social processes that take place around him throughout his life make a woman or man a person, but, remaining in one role or another, a person unconsciously feels his spiritual discomfort and only the restoration of his initial androgenic integrity can help him.

Andrey Vaganov-Dashkov – doctor of anti-age therapy, dermatovenereologist, certified specialist in the field of injection techniques, scientific director of the Laskos training center.

Modern preparations for contouring – most natural modeling

The advent of new technologies in the production of preparations in contour plastics enables doctors, like sculptors, to accurately reproduce trendy faces. This was the technology for the production of micromized hyaluronic acid, on the basis of which fillers are made, allowing the most natural correction and modeling.

Quite recently, one of the last, the fillers of the well-known French brand Laboratoires Genevrier  - Ialugen Esteem, presented by Laskos" (Lascos):

Presence of lidocaine  in the preparation gives maximum comfort to the patient during the injection of the filler, and the rejection of local anesthesia reduces the risk of bruising.

Using the example of Ialugen Esteem fillers, we examined the opportunities that modern aesthetic medicine gives us. These are fillers with a biostimulating effect, which allow not only to accurately convey the naturalness of face shapes, but also to start the rejuvenation process. Fillers that make it possible to make the correction so imperceptible that it seems that time has stopped. Using various palettes of fillers, we create masterpieces of youth and style.

Blurring the line of gender differences: how the patient's perception of the external image is changing

To make it easier to understand the term "androgenic", we can compare it to the Eastern symbol yin-yang. One whole consists of two opposites. Similarly, a person can be integral only when it includes two opposites. Our inner world is exactly the same. But the outside world is the same.

Modern Era – this is a time when sex has become something more than procreation, clothes have become comfortable, and not emphasizing a certain belonging to gender or social groups. When professions became not a necessity, but self-realization. We see that these social processes begin to influence the patient's inner world, as a result of which the perception of the external image by him changes.

External image – it is a reflection of the inner world. And, of course, these processes of the social environment influenced one of the most influential dictators in the world – FASHION. Fashion reflects the social evolution of society and makes our inner world more understandable through images created by fashion designers and couturiers. In turn, fashion designers are inspired by various aspects and manifestations of the social processes of society. This secret was revealed by Tom Ford, showing it in his outrageous collections for Gucci, as well as the brilliant Vivienne Westwood, who draws her inspiration from artists, actors, and social activists.

Social processes begin to influence the patient's inner world, as a result of which the perception of the external image by him changes.

Fashion is a mirror in which the signs of our time are visible. Leafing through fashion magazines, women and men try on fashionable images of gloss for themselves. But not only images, but also the faces of style and fashion icons. And as modern fashion clothes lose clear boundaries of gender, the emergence of new fashion icons with completely different facial features from those who reigned on the catwalks and in the gloss twenty years ago becomes natural.

Now we see new faces. Valentina Sampaio on the cover of Vague Paris March 2017. Vogue describes 22-year-old Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio as "a femme fatale accidentally born a boy." In an editorial column, Emmanuelle Alt writes: “Her beauty is absolutely the same as that of Giselle, Daria, Edie or Anna. Except for one small detail: Valentina, this femme fatale, was born a boy. She attracted us not only with her appearance, but also as a symbol of the change in our ideas about the types of male and female beauty. Leo Tee – the muse of the Givenchy Fashion House with an androgynous appearance, blurring the line of gender differences. Hari Nef – trans activist who won first place in the Dazed&Confused magazine poll,

Gender vagueness as a new trend in aesthetic medicine

Gender in the language of aesthetic medicine – it is what makes us more masculine or feminine. The blurring of the boundaries of gender has led us to completely new canons of beauty. Faces become more angular with clearly defined facial contours. Softness and roundness disappear. Strong-willed faces appear with a pronounced, strong-willed lower jaw. Sensual, plump lips become more natural and have a pronounced oriental shape – "flower lips". This lip shape is becoming a modern trend for all ages and genders as it has a very natural look.

Another powerful tool for the aesthetic medicine doctor – it is a neurotoxin (Botox, Dysport, Xeomin). Over the past ten to fifteen years, the aesthetics of this method has undergone a strong change. If earlier we injected mainly middle-aged women, now our clients have become much younger, this applies equally to both men and women. And here everything is more complicated: the patient's request is formed depending on his position in society and the generation system.

Since it's about gender vagueness, this is typical of Generation Y, where gender equality – this is the law. It is this generation from 18 to 33 years old that blurs the clear boundary between the sexes and their request – "I want to be young, beautiful, with lively natural facial expressions." At the same time, they boldly experiment with their appearance. It is because of this that a new trend of the "living perfect face" has formed. with a "Buddha" smile. If it is clear with a lively face, then with a smile it is more difficult – this is a technique for working with negative emotions that are reflected in negative facial expressions.

Today we see a world where beauty criteria are becoming universal, destroying old stereotypes. In their place come new canons of beauty, erasing the boundaries between the sexes and creating a world in which there are more beautiful people.