The Zoom face effect: With interest in cosmetic surgery rising, two GLAMOUR editors share their own experiences of what it's really like

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The Zoom face effect: With interest in cosmetic surgery rising, two GLAMOUR editors share their own experiences of what it's really like
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Looks like all those Zoom calls and the intensity of staring at our faces all day, has had a curious impact.

- space I desperately wanted for more important matters. I didn’t think it would make me look like a supermodel, I thought it would make me look more like myself- as mad as that sounds.

Anita Bhagwandas, Glamour’s Contributing Beauty Director foray into tweakments left her feeling, well, pretty shit TBH...Why do we want to goad celebrities like Khloe Kardashian into admitting they've had surgery as if it's a criminal act?Why do we want to goad celebrities like Khloe Kardashian into admitting they've had surgery as if it's a criminal act?Scrolling. I feel like most of life’s new ills start right there.

I was probably in the worst job to feel that way because I had doctors and procedures at my fingertips. I had a consultation with a cosmetic doctor and they pointed out things I was secretly paranoid about, like that my upper lip was smaller than my bottom, and that the nasolabial folds or lines around my mouth were ageing me. But they could be fixed with the smallest amount ofAfterwards I looked into the mirror at my new face and at 30, I could have passed for say, 26. A win, I thought.

But it was the aftermath that really screwed with my mind. I watched the new face I now enjoyed disappear after 4/5 months. The nasolabial lines came back. My lips deflated and were actually a little bit wrinklier now because they'd been stretched. Each morning I’d peer into my bathroom mirror, dial up the lighting to blinding and examine my real face as it crept back in like a unwanted marauder.

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