for students
the school kid
oh hell no no no no no no no no no no no no no
thoughts! - like
Hey guys and girls this is CathyCat your flashy fashion reporter and while
the director and I were on the train in Tokyo we spotted a new commercial
that is targeting teenagers they're giving a discount to teenagers who would like to have
eyelid surgery so today we're gonna go and ask the foreigners here in Japan what they think
about that so let's go and ask
on the trains in Japan there's recently a new type of commercial something like this....
eyelid tape?
contact lenses?
widening the eyes or something like that
i have to think of eyebrow... microblading?
eye lashes maybe?
Uhm... - bro
eyebrows? - eyebrows??
is it for eyelids - yep
she's wearing a school uniform and that's her school passport
wow - yeah
is it for eye surgery like the eyelid surgery? - yes
create a double lid surgery
so we have the Japanese monolid and then create a eye crease - oh
maybe double lid thing going on? - yeah yeah
yeah this is a discount to get lid surgery for students
okay
a school kid discount if you get yourself an eyelid surgery
oh hell no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no hell no
not for school girls and school school kids that's way too young
It's for that - young kids?
it is like the student discount when you're a student you get a student discount for eyelid surgery
thoughts?
Thoooughts!
I'm like aaah
this makes me sad - any kind of surgery in your teen's, thoughts?
no - not medically necessary no thank you
I just think it's maybe promoting not loving how you already look
seeing the picture both of you's reaction was quite strong what was the first thought in your head?
not here too
oh why so?
I think globally especially for women there's a lot of you need to fix yourself to be an image
and it seems like the places you go to where that's not something that's being promoted are getting smaller and smaller
so it was just kind of a "oh great here too" - here too
that's sadness in your voice here - yeah
make yourself happy however you want to be happy and do what you need to do but you're beautiful as you are
pretty I mean I think mine was pretty obvious it just made me sad that that's what is expected almost
like moving from just surgery to teenage surgery, thoughts?
our parents would never have led us
it was good idea yeah yeah yeah especially for students they have some problem for the eye probably they help
with this they help.... more confidence
I'm not sure how I feel about targeting this kind of teenagers and children
I guess it's up to their families if they want to do it or not but overall targeting something uh
that can permanently change a teenager's body uh like face surgery is ... I'm not sure I don't feel very good about it
but how it's their life it's their body uh if they're happy to deal with it and their family are on board I guess it's okay
yeah I don't know what to say like only like "oh my God"
I disagree of course like it's not a good idea just like they are so young and they are like
our the English is not the best, but they are like trying to change their appearance in an artificial way
I think everyone has their own Beauty so they don't have to change and that's like typical from Japan
so they'll just change the features their face features that's it
yes I think I agree with my friend, like it's not normal that you want to change your face and it doesn't matter if it's your face
or your body but when you are young I think you need to be maybe an adult or something but not when you are a young person
it's like they're pushing them to do it, you know? like it's either advertisement
yes and of course in a school like it's of course it's not normal
I don't know that's kind of like strange to be advertising so young kind of
and just to fit into the beauty standard I guess here
I feel like you should like if you're older you can do what you want but it's kind of weird the market that towards kids
especially like younger kids
you guys are in in high school or university college?
I'm in college - that in your college do kids already have done plastic surgery?
not that I know yeah pretty young still to get plastic surgery
I'm not a fan of it
so especially if you think about it in Japan it's like if you have a tattoo in Germany and Europe it's pretty common so
so I have a lot of friends even though they are amid... you have to be 18 or older but
sometimes if they are 17 and they have some friends they're doing this (tattoos)
but in Japan so you can't even go to into the Onsen because it's seen as rude or so and but to have a tattooist Rule and not pretty uh seen often but you have surgery as a school kid Ah that's way too young to make such big decisions I heard in Korea there's also more than um way more than sorry um because it's like the standards are pretty different than in Japan or
into the Onsen because it's seen as rude or so
and but to have a tattooist Rule and not pretty uh seen often ... but if you have surgery as a school kid ?!
Ah that's way too young to make such big decisions
I heard in Korea there's also more (surgery) than sorry um because it's like the standards are pretty different than in Japan or
even though in Germany because you have to be perfect you have to be not natural small eyes
perfect nose and stuff and I thought it would be different in Japan
because they are more natural more common more maybe traditional and stuff
but that's that's really not good I don't like that because not offer for kids they're too young
they can't really decide whether it's good for them or it should last for them
maybe here also is it permanently? it's like ? - pretty permanent (depending on type)
yep uh that's way too young to deside so you can't vote if you're under 18 so you can't...
it's pretty difficult for people to decide what they really want ...sometimes they're like ah I want to be tall I want to be ...
but I've got a young sister she's 12 years and if everything she wants would be done it would be kind of a mess really
if this a surgery it's permanent it's like
oh you can't get used to it it's like it's done
I wouldn't recommend this doing for the school kids
um in Taiwan these are actually very common too
like among student it is probably maybe the the most popular type of surgery
so you do see these ads a lot in Taiwan
I think it's too young yeah I think you're you know you're they're maturing and they're going through you know puberty and everything
and your face will kind of change, mature as well and I just don't think it's necessary I think you know
once they get older they decide they want to do that and then that's fine, I think they're too young at that point to make that decision yeah
because I don't think it's necessary
I think it's I feel like it's kind of recently that Japan has started like this whole eye surgery thing
but I think it's mostly influenced by like K-pop culture and Korean culture because I think it's more normalized there
it's starting to get normalized right now but I think it's a little too soon maybe for young teenagers
people wearing masks and now like mask off
and so they want to kind of freshen up their look or change how they look
yeah there is like a term here as well like "Mask Bijin" you have like absolutely beautiful eyes and
because we're in this area so it's kind of like the thought of like making this area look perfect
okay got it - that's true that makes sense
students it gives a student discount to students who want to get their eyelid surgery done while they're still in their teens
aaaah no - yeah no
that's like sad - that's what I thought
I don't like to judge anyone for any surgery that they get
because I don't think like any surgery that you want to have to make yourself look more like the beauty standard
is really any different than any other one
I know like when you come into contact with a new one it seems like very shocking and
um you know I don't want to like judge any like an individual person who gets it but I do think
it's sad that people don't find those features so beautiful already because I just you know
it's like so pretty and I don't want people to all want to look one way and like I don't know I just feel like
like white people kind of you know... - kind of our fault and band influence kind of thing?
yeah like um you know like you're um like European beauty standards like I don't know it's just like a hard decision to make when you're so young
well I'm a makeup artist so I'm like whatever eye shape you have is like perfect
you can work with whether someone has a monolid or an eye crese?
a monolid is actually so much easier to work with - really how so?
because like when you close open you can see the same thing so you can create like any shape
and any like whatever you want so
yeah I really like monolids...
it's interesting from that standpoint that if you're marketing the teens it gives the implication that parents are on board with
oh good point
I don't know as a teenager I'm sure I would have been thrilled to see some things marketed towards me or
as an adult I'm not for it anymore
I just wonder how many people teens are actually doing it
like if it's actually common or
sometimes the parents gift that to their children saying okay here you go here's your eyelid surgery
is it I wonder if it's like if you get these grades then we'll give it to you - oh my gosh
you get straight A's you get an operation? - yeah yeah
you better get a fancy purse or something
what age would you think would be appropriate to advertise it for?
I would say 18 but I think 18 is 20 in Japan - 16?
16 maybe - yeah normal
from until 14 13 14 I think it's too young for this kind of surgeries but
after teenagers kind of start to think individually and more so they can choose for themselves
yeah that's okay I guess
by the way we love the eyes it's perfect
oh the Japanese eyes? - yeah
perfect - oh it's like they don't you mean they don't need an extra lid?
Yeah definitely they looks so cute I really like them
do you understand why there is a pressure to get an extra lid surgery?
I guess there's kind of societal pressured for beauty standards but I think every country kind of has that beauty standards
but in Asian culture I think it's more ...hard ... like harder yeah I understand why they are advertising it but
at the same time I don't ...I don't think they need it
what is your thought about what age do you think from onwards would be a better age or like a more okay age to promote these kind of surgeries?
more than 18 more than 20 something like that - yeah
so you have like your own mind your own thoughts and like you don't change your mind so easy
what is your thought about the monolid or the lid the Japanese eyes when you look at the Japanese type eyes with the monolid what are your thoughts?
beautiful - beautiful really different yes of course
but really beautiful as well yes, like it's different we are not the usual to see that so
we are here (in Japan) and everybody is beautiful for us we think that
something about beautiful
oh very positive message love it
mentioning that at school in Japan you're forbidden to wear makeup thoughts?
perfect - perfect
why? - yes because we have to be natural we don't have to wear things just to cover our faces or
of course nice when you have an insecurity because you can cover it but when you use makeup you have forcing others as well to
use it and I don't know I think we have to be natural always
like nowadays there are a lot of stupid things like it's not natural like for example to go at school away
and you start when you are like eight nine years old and you are already have a telephone
or something like that so it's the same
what age would you think would be a good age to then be allowed to take those choices or have those choices ?
probably 18 I guess just after high school maybe even 21 but 18 probably
18 21 is still kind of young to me it's just the beginning like to get stuff done
you had someone of your friends who's like in the same college and was like oh I'm thinking of getting this sort of plastic surgery done
what would you advise them?
just like to consider it and like think about what you really want to get done ... permanently
pprobably 18. yeah I think 18 you can decide what you want your face kind of to look like
or you know um I just think that you need to be a little bit older to make this type of decision
because it's going to be forever
what's like a most common one that you feel is in America?
probably nose - but there's like this trend of the BBL the BBL surgery
I don't know what that is - What is BBL?
the booty - oh okay yeah I get it yeah that's true
I am not really too informed about it but it was like trending in America - to get more booty ?
yes yeah absolutely more booty the better - More booty the better!?
so what advice would you give to someone who's say in their late teens and they're thinking of
getting an eyelid surgery each one of you what kind of advice would you give them?
don't do it - don't do it?
yeah - I would just say like
all of your features are perfect for your face and like if you change them like even if you like it are you beautiful no one else has your face
and like I just think that it'd be nice to like learn how to you know be so grateful for that just because
I don't know yeah - 18 maybe?
I guess just like legal adults should be able to make whatever choice they want you know
I heard stories from my Japanese friends that they had like a classmate and over the summer holidays they all say goodbye
and after the summer their holidays suddenly her eyes had changed so I think the lid surgery is very common and
it's already happened with teenagers if the parents were okay with it
but having now commercials that are branded directly at teenagers
to get their surgery done and give them discounts because they are teenagers which is what we've seen on the train...
hmm iffy what are your thoughts?
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