For the art exam and job hunting, the number of students undergoing plastic surgery during the winter vacation has surged by two times. Facial surgeries have become very popular.
The post-90s generation is flocking to "change their appearances" in the first lunar month. According to the elderly, it's considered unlucky to wield a knife or cut hair during this time. However, as "new new humans," the post-90s generation doesn't care about these "customs," and many students are taking advantage of the long holiday in the first lunar month to crowd into plastic surgery hospitals to "transform their looks."
● Discovery
Mother spends her year-end bonus to give her daughter "more confidence"
Yesterday afternoon, outside the doctor's office at a certain plastic surgery hospital in Yuyantan, Tan Jing (a pseudonym) and her mother were anxiously waiting, preparing for an eye-corner opening and injectable nose augmentation surgery.
With dreams of becoming a star, high school senior Tan Jing, while attending art examination training, looked around at all the handsome men and beautiful women in the room, feeling constantly "looked down upon" due to her small eyes and flat nose, which made her increasingly less confident.
Seeing her daughter unhappy, after communicating with her daughter, Tan Jing's mother decided to take her to get plastic surgery. The cost of the two plastic surgeries was approximately 12,000 yuan, equivalent to her year-end bonus for the year.
● Follow-up
Hospitals offer discounts to attract students to undergo surgery
According to data from Beijing Sanye Medical Beauty Hospital, starting from the Spring Festival holiday, the number of students getting plastic surgery is 3-4 times that of normal days, mainly consisting of high school and college students.
It is understood that student plastic beauty treatments mainly focus on the head and face, mostly involving double eyelid surgery, rhinoplasty, thinning thick lips, lengthening the chin, etc.
"With similar educational backgrounds, companies will definitely choose those with better appearances first," said a female fourth-year university student who had undergone chin augmentation injections. In March, she will start her Spring Festival job search, which is the last chance to find employment before graduation, "considering it as early preparation."
● Suggestion
Plastic surgery should not follow trends; choose what's suitable
This morning, Liu Tong, the president of Beijing Lido Medical Beauty Hospital, stated that students should have sufficient understanding of their own facial characteristics, not echo others' opinions blindly, and plastic surgery should not follow trends blindly, as not all things that are beautiful are necessarily suitable for oneself. Besides appearance, improving one's cultivation and abilities to gain greater social competitiveness is the most important.
To welcome the peak of visitor flow, eight snow-making machines started working simultaneously
Bird's Nest creates "fluffy snow" overnight
In the roar of machinery, white snow particles like sugar poured out from the snow-making machine with a diameter of about one meter, forming a gale of snow with a radius of about 20 meters as the machine rotated, and then landed, creating fluffy snow accumulated overnight.
At 8 PM last night, at the Bird's Nest Joyful Snow and Ice Season site, which had already closed, eight snow-making machines began operating simultaneously, making the snow field inside and outside the Bird's Nest reach a thickness of about 10 centimeters within 10 hours.
On-site worker Master Han said that recently, for the peak of visitor flow, the snow-making machines would start work on time every night. The water consumption for each snow-making session depends on the temperature at the time. It was estimated that producing 10 centimeters of snow inside and outside the Bird's Nest required nearly a thousand cubic meters of water.
Text/ Nightline Reporting Team Intern Pu Tianxia