You might want to think twice before throwing on that dog filter for your next selfie.
According to celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif and star of Botched, filters are part of the new dangerous plastic surgery trend that everyone's having done.
In other words, it all comes back to this: social media is setting unrealistic examples for what we want our faces to look like.
The new — and dangerous — trend is now all about wanted the "filtered selfie look."
“Everyone takes selfies these days and filters or FaceTunes them too much, and sometimes they take that selfie-dysmorphia into the doctor’s office and say ‘I want this’.”
They want the "photoshopped" aspect that filters and apps like Facetune provide.
This includes a larger, more rounded butt, bigger lips, a skinnier waist, etc.
“It’s oftentimes not appropriate or too much.”
“People like showing off what they’ve had done, so it’s become more visible and more accepted," he said.
While no one (hopefully) is asking to look like the dog or rainbow filter on Snapchat, there is something about these filters that make anyone look more attractive.
Surprisingly, Dr. Nassif says that there is a positive aspect to all of this.
Instead, they ask for "tweaks" that will help their nose, for example, look more like it does with a filter.
This is Jordan Parks who appeared on an episode of Botched. He had spent $150,000 to look like Kim Kardashian.
He calls himself a "filler addict" since he has had filler injected in pretty much every area of his entire face, including his chin, lips, cheeks, and forehead.
Since the doctors refused to do any more work on him, he appeared on the show for a second time.
Once again, Dr. Nassif and his colleague, Dr. Dubrow, refused surgery on Parks.
"In the United States for the past three or four years, the trend has been to get bigger buttocks," he said.
Thing is, not even Kim Kardashian has butt implants.
On Keeping Up With the Kardashians, she even did an ultrasound to prove that her butt was real.
Overdoing things like Brazilian Butt Lifts can lead to dire consequences, including death.
Thankfully, that wasn't the case for Patricia.
Selfie safe, people!
