Make me perfect: Manufacturing beauty in China

造就完美:在中国铸就美丽

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-04-20

26 分钟
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In China today, looking good is seen as key to career success. With beauty videos promoting extreme weight-loss flooding social media, beauty apps making booking surgery click of a button away, China’s cosmetic surgery industry is booming. But the surge in demand has led to a shortage of qualified practitioners and licensed clinics. Hundreds of accidents are happening inside Chinese clinics every day. We talk to young women pressured into cosmetic procedures and expose the surgeon behind one of China’s most notorious botched surgeries. You can hear the full investigation ‘Make me Perfect’ on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts just search for ‘BBC the documentary’. Presenter: Natalia Zuo Producer: Ly Truong Editors: Rebecca Henschke and Monica Garnsey Mixed by: Gareth Jones
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  • I am trying out this extremely popular plastic surgery app.

  • So Young is a beauty platform app and it has millions of active monthly users,

  • extremely popular with young women.

  • So I'm going to take a picture of myself, find the best lighting, sort out my hair, and snap.

  • Okay, so this is what they call the magic mirror function.

  • It's an AIR function and just let the app analyze your so-called imperfections and recommend procedures.

  • You see all these white dots moving around my face, analyzing it.

  • So it thinks I've got the posh lady face and it has a lot of different style of faces next to it.

  • What exotic face, influencer face and this is ridiculous.

  • This face is called marriage material face.

  • Just out of curiosity, I'm going to click on marriage material face and see what it asks me to do.

  • Well, okay, well then.