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So thereβs now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and thereβs a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?
People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers? Celebrities with slightly crooked teeth are getting full veneers or caps?
Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation for their rigid beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like itβs all much more out of control now because internet. Modern beauty standards are insane.
Screw that Iβm crawling back under my rock
there's celebrities and then there is insta and tiktok celebrity. Insta and tiktok is freaky.
I feel like TikTok is weirdly disconnected from reality
western tiktok has an anti-social algorithm ,