Barbie nose best.
New Yorker Alexandria Linton never much cared for the picture-perfect, pink-loving plaything.
Growing up in the early 2000s, when high-tech toys and high-speed computer games were de la mode, the plastic icon just didn’t appeal to her.
But when Linton, now 25, got elective plastic surgery in March, she went for the human version of Barbie’s exquisitely straight, narrow and slightly upturned sniffer.
“I got a cute little button nose — the Barbie nose,” Linton, a Midtown-based regional business manager for a cosmetic surgery group, told The Post. “I knew [her] nose would look good on my face.”
The Gen Zer swears her decision to trim down her naturally “bulbous” beak was not influenced by the inescapable wave of Barbiecore that’s held fashionistas, interior designers and brides in a chokehold — even before the release of Greta Gerwig’s flick starring Margot Robbie, which went on to make more than $800 million in its first 12 days in theaters.
“This is something I’ve wanted done to my nose for the past six years,” insisted Linton. “I’m a big proponent of doing whatever makes you feel best and confident.”
“I got exactly what I wanted,” she declared.
Despite having professional ties to rhinoplasty specialists in Manhattan — where a nose job can range from $10,000 to $30,000 — the brunette chose to go to Istanbul, under the knife of Dr. Erdi Özdemir, who’s picked up more than 13.6 million TikTok eyeballs on his “Barbie nose” transformation videos.
There, the procedure only set her back $4,100.
Dr. Ari Hoschander, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan, told The Post that the operation is achieved through several carefully executed steps.
“First, there’s an incision made to the columella, or the skin between the nostrils,” explained Hoschander.
“Then,” he continued, “we raise the skin of the nose off of the cartilage and bone, shave down the bone and cartilage to lower the height and remove the bump, break the bone in order to narrow it, remove a portion of the bottom of the septum and stitch the lower cartilages together in order to raise the tip.”
“Performing these maneuvers will result in [a] smaller, narrower, more structured and upturned nose, just like Barbie,” said Hoschander, urging prospective patients, however, to be sure they’re making healthy, informed decisions about altering their faces before following a cosmetic trend on a whim.
Buzz surrounding Barbie’s flawless schnoz has garnered over 121.5 million views under the TikTok-viral hashtag #BarbieNose.
Women like Linton are traveling near and far for the trendy snout.
Some wannabe dolls are even opting for non-surgical rhinoplasty. In the noninvasive procedure, a cosmetic surgeon injects either Botox or dermal filler into the nose to enhance its tip, smooth out bumps and straighten crooked kinks, per Cleveland Clinic.
The shots are a less-expensive, semi-permanent option. It comes with some risks, including fever, vascular complications, vision loss — and in one woman’s case, a windfall of shade from social media savages.
Digital Debbie Downers berated a brown-haired girl featured on the TikTok page of a cosmetologist, whose Barbie nose injections in Dubai and Istanbul have fetched several million views on the app.
Beneath a clip of the unnamed woman’s freshly jabbed nose, trolls likened her newly pointy honker to that of late pop king “Michael Jackson” rather than queen Barbie.
Meanwhile, Linton said she’s mostly received praise for her perky new nozzle — so much so that over 30 of her friends and followers have flocked to her surgeon overseas, begging to get “Alexandria’s Barbie nose,” so she says.
She’s encouraging folks considering the face-fix to ignore the haters.
“Other people might not agree with you getting a Barbie nose or any procedure,” she told The Post. “But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it if it makes you happier.”
“I’m happy with my decision, and I don’t care who doesn’t like it.”
