The latest season of Love Island brought more than just romance and reality TV drama to the screen, it elicited an uncanny valley feeling as viewers started noticing something strange among female contestants:
They all looked the same.
With non-expressive faces, inflated lips, jawlines and cheekbones sculpted to near-geometric perfection, the end result went from appealing—to eerie.
Now dubbed “Love Island face”, the look is characterized by heavy reliance on dermal fillers and Botox. Far from delivering eternal youth, medical professionals are already warning of the trend’s troubling consequences.
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