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If you've been on social media at all recently, you might have noticed something unsettling.

We used to be able to differentiate people's ages a little bit more easily, and now it's quite homogenous.

From big-name celebrities to your friends from high school, people are looking increasingly

ageless. They're smoother, they're a bit more plump, more perfect. You might have also heard the

term Instagram face, coined in 2019, to describe the homogenous beauty standards populating our

online feeds. Obviously, we've got access to filters and

photo editing, but there is something else on the rise too, and that's cosmetic procedures.

And even during times like the pandemic, it was an industry that was not hit. In fact, it actually

flourished. So in a world where we can change our faces and bodies easier than ever,

how does this impact the way we think about ourselves and others?

Aging is now almost seen as a medical condition.

What does that mean for our sense of belonging to our heritage, to our families?

Across the board, we found that people who were described as considering having plastic

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