Those suffering from resting bitch face (or RBF) — the condition of looking angry and irritated while actually feeling relaxed and calm — are flocking to plastic surgeons to turn their frowns upside down with fillers and Botox. “This is actually a common request from patients — I get several each week,” says Dr. David Shafer, a double board-certified plastic surgeon and medical director of Shafer Plastic Surgery & Laser Center in Midtown Manhatten. “They may not always use the words ‘resting bitch face,’ but if I mention ‘RBF,’ they say, ‘exactly.’ Although the term RBF entered the cultural lexicon about six years ago, requests for the procedure “more than doubled” over the last year, says Shafer. He says selfies are also a factor: They force people to “look down at their phone, [which] accentuates the resting bitch face.”
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