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It's like an entry rule for MAGAt women:

  1. Fuck up your face.
  2. See #1.
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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] excral@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not American so I hadn't heard of Kristi Noem before the last episode. But seeing this post, they were spot on

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What on earth makes people think this is a desirable look? It’s grotesque. Like literally, in the classical art meaning, grotesque. Like living gargoyles. And many of them were actually beautiful before this butchery.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's largely incidental.

Soft-tissue cosmetic surgery doesn't last. They're foreign objects in the body, so over time your body tries to break them down. Lip filler slowly diffuses around the bottom of your face, for example. Botox paralysing muscles affects strength and elasticity.

So it's a cursed treadmill. You can't stop getting surgery once you start. A single surgery will look worse than your unaltered face if you only have one, so every few years you have to get it again.

But.. all the old stuff is still in there. The muscle damage accumulates. The filler accumulates, and is impossible to remove. You might remove some of your own tissue to 'reshape' as it gets more advanced, but many just 'top up'.

Either way, you are permanently altered. They don't choose to look like this, they choose to make minor adjustments to look younger/hotter/etc that slowly turn them into this.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most cosmetic surgery isn't permanent.

These big changes often are, though. You may regret it and get it removed, but you’re going to age far worse in any case.

There’s a whole movement right now of these people getting their surgery reversed, but in many cases the long-term damage has been done and you will age worse than if you hadn’t done it. You have scar tissue that will age differently, no matter how minor and no matter what you do.

It’s really sad, because these people are making themselves look worse now and they’ll also age worse, and they’ll likely hate that, then spend thousands more in that cycle, like you said.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i feel like the movement is very niche and limited to rich people

I've known a number of people at the bottom end of the economic spectrum who have gone in for shit like this. This is what they save up for and spend their money on, at the expense of having a house and a viable retirement and taking care of their children etc. etc.

[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, there are people who get things done and you’d only know with a before and after. But when it goes wrong or gone too far, it’s awful. There are plenty of success stories that are invisible to the average person in passing

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that's kind of their point. It's done so well so often, why do these people always get the ugly stick version? They can't all be using the same (bad) surgeon.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's just taking it too far.

That, and chasing a certain 'aesthetic' the ultra wealthy like I guess (giant lips in particular).

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

giant lips in particular

This is what I don't understand about it. There's a good way to do that. DSL are a thing, but these examples are just bad plastic surgery.