Friday, December 09, 2016

Social media obsessed India goes to extreme lengths to make selfies picture-perfect...

In any given month, Delhi-based cosmetic surgeon Dr Anup Dhir gets about 25 customers who want him to do one thing: make their selfies picture perfect.

Requests from his clientele, which varies across age groups, range from 'skin peeling' for skin colour enhancement to 'fish lips', a lip augmentation procedure which makes thin lips look shapely.

“The problem with selfies is that they are done with a flat lens, not with a high focal length lens, so facial features are not that pleasing. The profile of cameras is changing and people end up taking 7-8 photos every day, just for posting,“ says Dr Dhir, a Delhi-based cosmetic surgeon. “The pressure of posting on social media is definitely very high,“ he adds.

The obsession with selfies doesn't end there. Indians are risking life and lip to capture that perfect selfie. In the past two years, a total of 127 deaths globally were caused due to reckless behaviour while clicking selfies. Of these, 76 occurred in India alone - the highest in the world, according to a recent research by Precog at Delhi's Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology. Full story...

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