These Miss Korea pageant contestants all have one very disturbing thing in common…
Let’s play a little game: try and spot the differences in the faces of the fifteen women above.
Wait – you thought it was one woman with fifteen different hairstyles? You wouldn’t be alone.
The faces of these Miss Korea pageant contestants have been painstakingly engineered to look like this. All in the name of beauty.
While most beauty pageant contestants tend to look on the similar side (gleaming fluorescent smiles, spray tanned limbs and long foiled locks), these beauties take it to a whole new level.
…one in five women living in South Korea will undergo plastic surgery
South Korea has one of the highest rates of plastic surgery per capita in the world and its been speculated that pre-show plastic surgery is a common part of the beauty pageant process.
Amoung the most popular procedures young Korean women undergo to achieve this perceived beautiful perfection include jaw shaving, forehead implants, eyelid surgery and botox.
And photos of the before and after ‘transformations’ of regular Korean women on the internet are rife, with some like the below so shocking that you wouldn’t believe they were real, until you learn the dark reality about Korean beauty standards.
In the Gangnam district in Seoul, more than 500 cosmetic surgery clinics line the streets in the area known as the ‘beauty belt’, and procedures on girls as young as 16 are common.
Today, one in five women living in South Korea will undergo plastic surgery to achieve what as been termed as ‘the Western ideal of beauty’, and as cultural beauty standards become increasingly difficult to achieve, Australia is expected to follow.
Have your say: Do you think these women have gone too far?