3 Takes: Windsor panel debates teen botox

A growing number of young people are buying Botox and lip injectionsto enhance their looks.

• Kylie Jenner's look blamed for surge in Canadian women getting lips done

Dermatologist Daniel Radin told CBC News he's noticed a dramatic increase in clients in their late teens and early 20s trying to achieve the look of social media celebrity Kylie Jenner.

Has social media magnified the pressure on youth to change their appearance? Our trio of panelists debates the issue on Windsor Morning on CBC Radio.

Until then, here'satasteofwhat SarahMushtaq,MissySauro andSinanSbahi think of the issue.

Sinan

Teenage girls are the primary, target consumer of this very profitable industry. Mostly because society in general is conditioned to think a woman's most important quality is her appearance.

More often than not, when a girl puts up a new profile picture on Facebook, there will be comments about how great she looks. Superficially, it seems like a nice thing to say, but when done excessively, it reinforces the backwards social concept that appearance matters more than anything else.

Sarah

It's almost like the social media and beautyworld has created an environment where your natural state needs to be perfection. Makeup isn't just a fun thing anymore.

Keeping up with the fitness or beauty gurus on Instagram, YouTube and other social media sites may start out harmless, but it has the potential to become mentally unhealthy. This is definitely going to affect the upcoming generation.

Missy

Your appearance and what you are willing to do to shapeit starts at a very young age. We rarely think parents also influence these behaviours. But asurvey of teens in Grades 7-12 found that 29 per cent of girls and 16 per cent of boys were teased about their weight by a family member.

Parents might push their kids to the point where they feel like they have to take steroids to keep up to the athletic competition, the same way they play through concussions. We need to be more conscious of these types of interactions.

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