Plastic Perfection - Sandra Parra (made with Suno AI)
Cookie-cutter beauty
Cookie-cutter woman
Cookie -cutter beings
Stamped
Shaped
Disgraced
The female body has been reduced to a public spectacle of pleasure, designed to satisfy the male gaze. In private, it is subjected to domestication, exploitation, and silent mutilation under the knife or needle. With every surgery, every injection, the body transforms into a plastic canvas, layered with a reality that doesn’t belong to it. It becomes a creation made for consumption, tailored to the demands of a society that imposes an appearance incompatible with our deepest self, mutating who we are.
My experience was a small taste of this reality. A dermatologist convinced me to try a treatment that promised to regenerate the collagen in my face. She assured me I would love the result, but I felt the opposite: my face became stiff, unrecognizable, a mutation of what it was. I spent months avoiding smiling, feeling like a distorted version of myself. And I asked myself: how much are we willing to sacrifice to fit into these standards?
The problem goes beyond the superficial. A woman’s worth is often measured by what she wears on her skin—makeup, clothes, treatments—and not by her mind or independence. We live under constant pressure to maintain a moratorium on aging, but that pause is just a disguise for the inevitable: life experiences and character always reveal the years we carry. Instead of celebrating our authenticity, the beauty industry fosters a toxicity that leads to self-disfigurement and the silent death of the true self, subjected to continuous mutation.
Swollen lips, exaggerated cheekbones, rigid foreheads are symptoms of a desperate search for an identity that is slipping away. We try to buy a second-hand youth, completely foreign to us. The colonization of our bodies and the mutation of our selves become evident with every scalpel and needle.
It is urgent to question this body policy that turns women into copies of an imposed mold. We are not mass-produced products, we are human beings with stories, emotions, and dignity that should not be shaped or reduced to a standardized version of beauty.
