US plastic surgeon claims women are increasingly seeking treatment to combat “resting bitch face”

 A derogatory term to describe women whose faces look “bitchy” has been driving demand for aesthetic treatments, a US-based plastic surgeon has claimed. 

Dr David Shafer, director of the Shafer Plastic Surgery & Laser Center in Midtown New York, claims more and more women are seeking treatment to address ‘resting bitch face’ or ‘RBF’. Although the term entered the cultural lexicon about six years ago, requests for the procedure “more than doubled” over the past year, Shafer told The Sun newspaper. 

He puts the trend down to a public shift in focus from the upper to lower face, “popularised by the Kardashians”, as well as taking selfies, which he says “accentuates the RBF”.