21 is the new 40: Men in the tech industry benefit from looking like teenagers

Here’s an interesting regional trend in plastic surgery from an article in New Republic: men in their 30s in Silicon Valley are getting plastic surgery and non-surgical treatments to look like they are in their early 20s.  The goal is to combat the reverse-ageism in the tech industry that equates youth with intelligence and entrepreneurism. 

Here in Washington DC, we see more traditional plastic surgery goals- a desire to look refreshed, not necessarily young.  In this town, where age often correlates with experience, there is no advantage to looking very young. 

I’ve written about cultural standards of beauty and the varied aesthetic demands they create, but most of those differences are international.  This Silicon Valley trend is particularly interesting because it’s a micro-trend, a hyper-regional phenomenon that wouldn’t translate anywhere else in the country.  Here are a few other plastic surgery micro-trends that I’ve seen:

-“New York nose” circa 1980:  There was a time when every rhinoplasty in New York City looked exactly the same- a tiny, pinched ski-slope.

-“L.A. trout pout”: The Real Housewives made this one famous in the mid-2000s- For a while it seemed like every woman in L.A. was over-injected in the lips with collagen or other fillers. 

-“Texas tatas”: Everything really is bigger in Texas! 

What do you see?  Any local standards of beauty that wouldn't make sense anywhere else?