After years of time-consuming skin-care routines, med-spa visits, and plastic-surgery before-and-afters, a number of creators are now reversing it all.
Alivia D’Andrea decided to “glow up” when she was 17 years old. The YouTuber, who is now 23 and lives in Los Angeles, had developed acne and gained some weight, she says, typical side effects of puberty. For D’Andrea, these physical changes spelled the end of her “peak” in senior year of high school. “In the first semester, things were going really well — the guy that I was in love with took an interest in me,” she says. “And then, out of the blue, I got cystic acne and he disappeared.
A core element of divesting from the “glow up” mentality is removing the desire for physical improvement from the center of your life. For D’Andrea, this has taken years. “Glowing up was all I ever knew,” she says. “I didn’t have any goals outside of it.” Today, her pursuits are far more well rounded, including furthering her storytelling skills , reading more, taking dance classes, and improving her social life.
While Tung doesn’t regret any one procedure itself, she does regret undergoing “sketchy” procedures in the past, including a surgeon who Photoshopped her result photos. But, mostly, she regrets the time, effort, and energy that went into glowing up. Not to mention the money — while her parents paid for her first nose job, she’s footed the bill for the others since.
There’s some concern that the very existence of the term “glowing down” only feeds into “glow-up” ideology — that our lives are one big incline for either increasing or decreasing hotness. But D’Andrea says she’s now making videos that her younger self needed at the start of her journey toward self-acceptance., says that at her worst point, she was spending 20 hours a week at the gym, tracking her food, and skipping social events.
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