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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.
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.
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.
As in, the desired results arent permanent. I'll edit to rephrase.
Yet the big changes typically aren't the cosmetic surgery, they're the damage. Either literally, or an attempt to treat it.
They might remove some cheek fat, but even that is them trying to catch up: because degraded filler makes their face look puffy and their lips ill-defined.
The filler is spread put around their cells regardless. It is impossible to remove. As is any muscular damage from long-term paralysis.
And yes, agreed. Reconstructive plastic surgery has lower risk, but when it comes to soft tissue cosmetic surgery, the only winning move is not to play.
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I'm starting to think cosmetic surgery shouldn't be allowed unless it's for a medical purpose like restructuring someone's face after being assaulted or something.
Purely cosmetic surgery seems like it's simply immoral doctors preying on insecure women.
Eh...I'd want a lot more effort spent to ensure patients are given 100% accurate, fully informed information re: outcomes and upkeep, and give consent only after seriously weighing that, but I dunno about banning purely cosmetic surgery.
A) I like the idea that humans have the freedom to modify their own bodies in whatever ways they see fit, so long as they accept the risks and realistic outcomes, and B) Banning would just create more underground practices, which is particularly bad for patient safety.
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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
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.
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).
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If you have a lot of money you can get a lot of plastic surgery
It’s just like buying a big house or a bunch of expensive cars or a private trip to child rapist island: a status symbol
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They actually look human in the before pics. Glad to know they got adjustments to make it obvious that’s not the case.
That Loomer lady sure did herself dirty.
Guilfoyle didn't do herself any favors either.
She had a genuinely pretty face.
"Temu Jigsaw" is what I've heard her called. Apropos
If you really want to be surprised, she's only like 32 years old.
She looks 50+.
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this is probably the gender affirming care they should be concerned about
Imagine hating yourself so much that you're a woman and decide to be a Republican.
There's your answer.
They are actually lizard people slowly reverting to their true forms. I heard Guilfoyle is even completely covered in scales from cloaca to sternum. Lots of people are saying it.
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The men too, they all look like a vampire or they're smelling shit.
Lol fucking Miller dressed up in trek uniforms, then says "why would we have diversity?"
I legit had a conversation with a MAGA who was telling me the Star Trek universe was awesome and we should try to do that, and when I pointed out it was literally space communism he visibly bluescreened. I wish I’d recorded it.
It’s also one of the “wokest” shows to ever exist as well. The first TV interracial kiss was on Star Trek.
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That's the sad part. He's probably one of those idiots crying "why did Star Trek go woke‽"...like, news flash.
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Did they have gender affirming surgeries?!
Laura Loomer went from looking like a female Bradley Cooper, to looking like Jigsaw trying to compete on Drag Race.
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these are people who say you can't have gender affirming care and you must give birth to your rapist's baby because you should accept whatever god gave you. meanwhile they're like "fuck this face you gave me, god, i can't make money with this I'll have some doctors fix your shit for me"
"You should be happy with gods graces, unless you are republican and need to make yourself look like a toy some child melted with a magnifying glass to appease your one true orange god"
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They are desperately trying to look good enough for Trump to give them a creepy grin and a quick grab of their ass.
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its called the mara-a-lago face. right wing talking heads have to look increasingly like "male gaze" females, in order to be in positions like a fox talking head, or trumps inner circle. conservative voters dont like to see old bats.
If the "male gaze" is attracted to plastic duck lips and sunken eye sockets shaded in expensive bat shit, with foreheads like a full bag of curdled milk...
Yuck. Nevermind.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
It's sad to see people mocking these poor women. They obviously have a lot going on and are just terrified. That's why they're doing all they can to make themselves look as un-couchlike as possible.
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They all look hideous, I normally wouldn’t say that about another person, but these freaks chose to look like this.
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The conspicuity is the point. It's like any other body modification; it connotes social class/rank. The same way a prison tattoo let's people know what you're about, this type of plastic surgery let's people know what you're about. It's not intended to be convincing or subtle. It's to set them apart from the steerage class.
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"Mar-a-Lago face" is the term isn't it?
Steal his look
For the same reason that the "Real Housewives of 'X' or 'Y' do it". Because it's a visible affirmation to themselves of how rich they are. The fact that they can afford to "stay young and beautiful" is something that they are better than us peasants for.
MAGA, following the lead of Trump, have a very very gaudy idea of what it means to be "rich". It's all gold plated everything and showing your wealth as obviously as possible in every possible situation. Someone once said that Trump is "a poor man's idea of what a rich man looks like". And that's pretty accurate. To Trump and his MAGA followers, wealth is to be flaunted as a show of power.
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Jesus... They all looked way better before the surgery. Especially Loomer.
Now they all resemble an Easter Island head. 🗿
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