Relay Column: "Is Aesthetic Medicine Fashion?" (Saki Kohira)

Despite having so many clothes, I never have anything to wear to university. While it's fun to choose an outfit for a casual outing, picking clothes for weekly classes becomes a chore. Ever since in-person classes resumed, I've almost wished for a university uniform.
 
Even so, I enjoy collecting and wearing cute earrings. Currently, I have a total of seven earring holes, and counting the ones that have closed, it would be over ten.
 
Each earring hole has a story. For example, the first one I got when I was 18 with my high school friends, the $7 one from Singapore, the one I had to remove for an MRI scan before it closed up… not to mention, losing my favorite piece name in a wheelchair pocket and crying in my hospital room while my attending physician searched all the wheelchairs in the hospital. Each story could fill a short story collection.
 
Nowadays, except for some extreme body piercings, earrings are mostly seen as accessories rather than body modifications among young people. Various forms of body modifications are expanding into the fashion world. In this article, I would like to focus on aesthetic medicine, which is the subject of my research.