If you haven’t already, listen to my heartfelt chat with much-loved Australian personality Angie Kent here - https://youtu.be/hDPOsnUbgj0?si=795V3CJofboNu6TD

Sadly, Angie’s experience with cosmetic treatments is a common one. In our chat, Angie revealed her experience from being overtreated to a 12-month period of painfully dissolving the treatment.

Angie sparks a hugely important conversation on beauty standards and inclusivity. In this solo episode of reflection, I question why and how we initially and continue to get it all wrong.

You see, Angie fell foul of the trend of the last few years, which is all about creating the same set of lips, cheeks, chins, and jawlines—essentially creating clones of each other. Not only is there nothing attractive, let alone beautiful, about this ‘look,’ but my colleagues and I need to consider carefully the unintended and harmful consequences on people's physical and mental health.

It’s about time we embraced diversity in cosmetic medicine and focused on the uniqueness of every face we see. Beauty has many faces, so let's question the idea of a "perfect" face and remind ourselves of its subjectivity.

Inclusive cosmetic medicine celebrates diversity, respects individual appearance, and shakes up the single beauty standard. However, this trend has a massive shortfall, and TGA and AHPRA are trying to rectify it. Is it too little, too late?

Anita East

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