It’s the season of the schnoz, the beak, the triumphant, prominent, unignorable honker. We have Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro. Barbra Streisand’s nose starring in My Name Is Barbra with critics describing her face right there on page one (“an amiable anteater,” “a furious hamster,” “a seasick ferret”). There is Lady Gaga in profile, looking like something on an ancient Roman coin. And, to keep things topical, there’s Rudolph.
It is also the time of nose jobs, both surgical and non-; it is the age of contour makeup and before-and-afters. As podcasters are fond of saying, two things can be true at the same time. Rhinoplasties were up 37 percent in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic numbers from 2019.
