Plastic Surgery is Not a Hobby
To have really obvious hair extensions or to have really obvious lip filler or obvious fake tan, to have beauty work that's really legible and visible is a sign of your labor.
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In the world of fake beauty, it is alway summer: sunny, bright, and without shadows—a land of ones and zeros where everyone is sexy and in the flush of life, never tired, broken, or irritated.
Andrew Sweeny • Beauty
It would be pleasant to refuse in a muscular spirit to lend stray blemishes genuine significance. However, aesthetes force us to consider whether happiness may not sometimes turn on the presence or absence of a fingerprint, whether in certain situations beauty and ugliness may not lie only a few millimetres apart,
Alain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)
For example, there is an open market for LASIK surgery (a kind of laser eye surgery that removes the need to wear contact lenses). Doctors compete with one another to attract customers, and because the procedure is rarely covered by insurance, patients take price into account. Competition and innovation have driven down the price of the surgery by
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