Why Is The Urge To Make Ones Self Uglier So Powerful?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk521rrxyo

Even when it works the person is invariably uglier, I just don't understand why you'd pay thousands to a charlatan to make you uglier.

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barry1010

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Old_Geezer

Probably for the same reasons some get tattoos or piercings. No accounting for taste.

gulliver1

No need for you to pay even one penny TTT. 🤣You can have a freebie ..on the house.🤣PMSL ,me old china.End of.

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I'm already beautiful me old china!

Mozz71

Eye of the beholder Tora. Not my thing, but if it makes someone feel better about themselves, so be it.

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21:08 yeah but surely the idea is to look better, I have never seen one that does.

nicebloke1

Needlesd to say really, but your thought process is completely wrong. Its an attempt to fight ageing or to achieve the perfect body, either one will fail. The victim of a bad accident is a different ball game.

tomus42

//I just don't understand why you'd pay thousands to a charlatan to make you uglier.//

Neither do I, but as nobody has ever done that, it's a silly question.

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"Neither do I, but as nobody has ever done that, it's a silly question." - I've never seen an example where it's been an improvement.

Cloverjo

But you don't know. There might be lots of people around for whom it worked well and made them look good or better.

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yes, just saying, I've never seen one.

tomus42

//I've never seen an example where it's been an improvement.//

I have, but you can only do it a few times before you begin to look ridiculous. (Sharon Osbourne, Simon Cowell, etc)

However, this isn't the same thing. This is about a con man disfiguring vulnerable insecure people on the first occasion.

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"However, this isn't the same thing. This is about a con man disfiguring vulnerable insecure people on the first occasion." - I agree but the whole sector would not exist without this pointless vanity that most of the time doesn't even deliver the desired "improvement".

brainiac

It's like a very extreme version of that weird ugly men's haircut I posted about the other day: it starts somewhere (where?) and then spreads like a meme which seems to have such a strong pull that people will endager their lives to do it.