{"id":278324,"date":"2021-06-18T20:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elf-ears-are-the-creepy-new-plastic-surgery-trend-in-china\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:40:53","slug":"elf-ears-are-the-creepy-new-plastic-surgery-trend-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elf-ears-are-the-creepy-new-plastic-surgery-trend-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Elf ears’ are the creepy new plastic surgery trend in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Elf ears’ are the creepy new plastic surgery trend in China<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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For centuries, pointy elven ears were viewed by many as an undesirable beauty flaw \u2014\u00a0now young people are lining up to get them.<\/p>\n

In China, many women are getting dangerous plastic surgery to attain \u201celf ears.\u201d Most, though, are not striving to look like J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s Legolas or J.K. Rowling\u2019s Dobby. These beauty seekers claim that by enlarging their ears, their faces look slimmer and thus more attractive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results are very obvious,\u201d Song Yao, a clothing store owner from Hangzhou who underwent the surgery, told Vice<\/a>. \u201cYou can see my ears from the front, and overall I look more energetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Song perked up her ears for about 10,000 yuan, or $1,560, in part because many Chinese female celebrities were also hyping the trend. <\/p>\n

\u201cI only realized that actually many young people, mostly post-2000s, were looking for ways to make \u2018elf ears\u2019 after I helped one online celebrity do it at the beginning of last year,\u201d Dr. Yu Wenlin, of the Gaoshang Medical Cosmetic Center in Guangzhou, told the South China Morning Post<\/a>. \u201cThen more and more people came to me after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Wenlin now performs up to six of the surgeries daily.<\/p>\n

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People who\u2019ve undergone \u201celf ear\u201d cosmetic procedures are sharing their experiences on the social media<\/a> platform Weibo.<\/figcaption>
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The procedure to get these elf ears typically involves injecting hyaluronic acid, which is often used in dermal fillers, into the ears so that they become plump. Others insert a piece of cartilage behind the ear to prop it forward so that they are visible from a frontal face view.<\/p>\n

Protruding ears are traditionally considered a symbol of good luck in China, which has helped the elf-ear trend to take over local social media platforms like Weibo, where a Chinese hashtag translating to \u201celf ears plastic surgery\u201d has attracted over 700 million views. Many videos of users with surgically altered ears have also gone viral on Douyin, China\u2019s version of TikTok.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is magic! I haven\u2019t changed anything on my face and yet all my friends said I look different the day I got it done. (My face looked smaller, and I looked smarter etc),\u201d one happ<\/a>y patient said of the cosmetic procedure on the Chinese lifestyle sharing platform Xiaohongshu.<\/p>\n

However, despite all the newfound popularity, the trend has received a lot of pushback both from social media users and medical professionals. Another viral hashtag on Weibo garnering over 200 million views asks: \u201cWhat do you think of social appearance anxiety progressing to involve the ears?\u201d <\/p>\n

Many users noted in comments that these body modifications do not make someone more beautiful \u2014 especially when the trend may die out soon.<\/p>\n

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A woman shared this before-and-after shot of her \u201celf ear\u201d look after getting dermal fillers.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cI dare to say that after this \u2018elf ear\u2019 frenzy, there would be an army of beauty seekers requesting to get their original ears back, just like those \u2018online celebrity nose,\u2019 \u2018European-style double-fold eyelids,\u2019 etc. that once were very popular,\u201d Wang Jiangyun, a cosmetic surgeon at the Third People\u2019s Hospital in Zhengzhou, told South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

Cosmetic procedures to get these elf ears come with substantial risk factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first is infection around the ear after surgery, which is very tricky to treat; the second is embolism caused by injecting hyaluronic acid into blood vessels, which may be fatal,\u201d Dr. Liu Yufeng, chief physician of the plastic surgery division at the Second Hospital of Nanjing, told Vice.<\/p>\n

Although not the exact procedure, an Australian woman who wanted elf ears in order to look like a character from \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d in 2016 said that a botched cosmetic procedure left her left ear with horrific scar tissue. An 11-year-old girl\u00a0in Virginia even underwent cosmetic surgery in 2018 to fix her \u201celf ears\u201d due to vicious bullying.<\/p>\n

Although many doctors caution against getting surgery to look like elves in the movies<\/a>, the current craze could continue to thrive. After all, China\u2019s cosmetic surgery market nearly trip<\/a>led from 2015 to 2019 and continues to grow yearly. The market generated 177 billion yuan ($27.7 billion) in 2019 alone, according to a report <\/a>released by Deloitte Consulting in January 2021.\n <\/div>\n

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“#’Elf ears’ are the creepy new plastic surgery trend in China” For centuries, pointy elven ears were viewed by many as an undesirable beauty flaw \u2014\u00a0now young people are lining up to get them. In China, many women are getting dangerous plastic surgery to attain \u201celf ears.\u201d Most, though, are not striving to look like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/elf-ears-china-hp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[109769,4973,72165],"class_list":["post-278324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-18-21","tag-china","tag-plastic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}