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今天，我们聊一件，最近让整个美妆圈，都很震惊的事。

它关于一个人的去世，

也关于一个，

我们很多人，

都不太了解的，

风险。

这个人，

叫坎德尔·阿舍尔。

今年，五十六岁。

他可不是一个普通人。

他是全球最大的美妆集团之一，

雅诗兰黛的，

一位高管。

他在公司里，

负责的，

都是顶级的大牌，

比如海蓝之谜、

汤姆·福特美妆、

祖·玛珑。

这些牌子，

随便拿一个出来，

都是很多人，

梦寐以求的。

他在雅诗兰黛，

工作了，

整整二十五年。

可以说，

他的一辈子，

都在和"美"，

打交道。

他的工作，

就是研究，

怎么让人，

变得更美、更年轻。

然而，

就是这样一位，

最懂"美"的人，

最后，

却倒在了，

追求"美"的，

路上。

今年早些时候，

他突然去世了。

一开始，

没有人知道原因。

直到这个星期，

纽约的官方，

才公布了，

他的死因。

而这个死因，

让所有人，

都沉默了。

他是因为，

打了一种美容针，

而去世的。

这种针，

你可能也听过，

就是我们常说的，

"填充针"，

或者叫"水光针"一类的东西。

医生把它，

打进皮肤里，

可以填平皱纹，

让脸，

看起来更饱满、

更年轻。

那么，

这么小的一针，

怎么会，

要了人的命呢？

这里，

我们简单说一下。

正常情况下，

这种东西，

应该待在，

皮肤的表层。

但是，

在极少数的情况下，

它可能，

不小心，

被打进了，

血管里。

一旦进了血管，

它就会，

跟着血液，

到处流动。

最后，

这些"异物"，

顺着血管，

跑到了他的肺部，

像塞子一样，

把血管，

堵死了。

医学上，

管这个，

叫"栓塞"。

就这样，

他出现了，

急性的呼吸衰竭，

身体，

一下子就垮了。

据说，

他离开的时候，

是在自己爱人的怀里。

他先是感到，

一阵头晕，

然后，

很快，

就不行了。

官方说，

这是一场意外。

听到这里，

你可能会害怕。

是不是，

以后都不敢，

打美容针了？

先别急。

我们要看清楚事实。

其实，

这种注射，

绝大多数，

都是安全的。

有数据说，

光是在美国，

每年就有，

超过五百五十万次，

这样的注射。

真正出事的，

是极少数中的，

极少数。

有医生也说，

风险虽然小，

但确实存在，

严重的时候，

甚至可能，

让人失明。

所以，

这件事，

真正想提醒我们的，

不是"别变美"，

而是：

任何往身体里，

打东西的行为，

都不是，

绝对的零风险。

找正规的机构，

找专业的医生，

比省那一点点钱，

重要得多。

说到这里，

我想和你多聊一句。

我们生活在一个，

越来越看重"颜值"的时代。

想变美，

一点也没有错。

但是这件事，

像是一个，

冷静的提醒：

在我们，

拼命往脸上，

做"加法"的时候，

也别忘了，

健康和安全，

才是那个，

最重要的"1"。

最后，

我想留给你两个问题。

第一，

为了变美，

你愿意，

承担多大的风险？

你的底线，

在哪里？

第二，

当"变美"，

变成一种，

人人都在追的潮流时，

我们，

要怎么，

保持一份，

属于自己的，

清醒？

这两个问题，

没有标准答案。

但是值得我们，

慢慢去想。

English transcript reference

Today, we'll talk about something that recently shocked the entire beauty world.

It concerns a man's death,

and also a

risk that many of us

don't really understand.

A risk.

This man

was named Kendal Ascher.

He was fifty-six.

He was no ordinary man.

He was, at one of the world's biggest beauty groups,

Estée Lauder,

a senior executive.

At the company,

what he oversaw

were top luxury brands,

such as La Mer,

Tom Ford Beauty,

and Jo Malone.

These brands,

any one of them,

are what many people

dream of.

At Estée Lauder,

he worked for

a full twenty-five years.

You could say

his whole life

was spent dealing

with 'beauty'.

His job

was to study

how to make people

more beautiful and younger.

And yet,

exactly such a man,

who understood 'beauty' best,

in the end,

fell

on the road

of chasing 'beauty'.

Earlier this year,

he suddenly died.

At first,

no one knew the cause.

Not until this week

did the New York authorities

make public

his cause of death.

And this cause

left everyone

silent.

He died

from a cosmetic injection

he had received.

This injection,

you may have heard of —

it's what we commonly call

a 'filler injection',

or a 'skin-booster' and the like.

A doctor injects it

into the skin,

to fill in wrinkles,

making the face

look fuller

and younger.

So,

how could such a tiny injection

possibly

take a life?

Here,

let's explain briefly.

Normally,

this material

should stay in

the surface layer of the skin.

But

in very rare cases,

it may,

by accident,

be injected into

a blood vessel.

Once in the blood vessel,

it

follows the blood

and flows everywhere.

In the end,

these 'foreign bodies',

along the vessels,

reached his lungs,

and like a plug,

blocked

the vessel dead.

In medicine,

this is

called an 'embolism'.

And so,

he suffered

acute respiratory failure,

and his body

collapsed all at once.

It's said

that when he passed,

he was in his loved one's arms.

He first felt

a wave of dizziness,

then,

very soon,

he was gone.

Officials said

this was an accident.

Hearing this,

you might be afraid.

Should you

never dare

get a cosmetic injection again?

Not so fast.

We need to see the facts clearly.

In fact,

this kind of injection,

the vast majority of the time,

is safe.

Data show

that in the US alone,

there are, each year,

over 5.5 million

such injections.

Those that truly go wrong

are the rarest

of the rare.

A doctor also said

that though the risk is small,

it truly exists,

and in severe cases

may even

cause blindness.

So,

what this case

really wants to remind us

is not 'don't get beautiful',

but rather:

any act of putting something

into the body

is never

absolutely zero-risk.

Finding a proper clinic,

a professional doctor,

matters far more

than saving a little money.

Speaking of this,

I want to say one more thing to you.

We live in an age

that prizes 'good looks' more and more.

Wanting to be beautiful

is not wrong at all.

But this case

is like a

sober reminder:

while we

frantically add things

to our faces,

don't forget

that health and safety

are the

most important '1'.

Finally,

I want to leave you two questions.

First,

to become beautiful,

how much risk

are you willing to bear?

Where is

your limit?

Second,

when 'getting beautiful'

becomes a

trend everyone chases,

how do we

keep

a

clarity

of our own?

These two questions

have no standard answer.

But they're worth our

thinking about slowly.

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