Old Wrinkles Get New Names｜'Computer Face'
“膠臉”聽得多，大家知道什麼是“電腦臉”嗎？
長時間埋頭俯視對著電腦手機，就會容易出現兩頰鬆垮下垂的 “電腦臉” 、頸部肌肉因長期摺疊而變得鬆弛，導致雙下巴以及 “火雞紋” (turkey neck)，甚至額頭和眼圈四周出現皺紋等衰老現象。
雖然這些術語並沒有受醫學所認定，但在美容世界裡，名詞和術語不斷推陳出新，用來形容手術前後的效果、皺紋或過多的脂肪等等
Do you sit squinting at a computer most of your day?
Ask a cosmetic surgeon, and he or she might say that sooner or later you'll suffer from "computer face". The unfortunately named condition 'computer face', is supposedly caused by working in front of a screen for many hours a day. Let it go too long, and you may get 'turkey neck' (loose skin around the jaw and chin) along with wrinkles around the forehead and eyes.
"Computer face" it turns out, is just the most recent of many slang terms on a long list of not-so-pretty descriptions of our body's imperfections. Take "banana roll" (an unflattering reference to the excess fat under the buttocks), "Marionette lines" are deep creases that stretch from the mouth down to the jaw line. "Frown lines" or "elevens" refer to the wrinkles between the eyebrows, and "smoker's lines" are those creases that border the lips, supposedly from the trademark pucker that comes along with smoking a cigarette...
