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.
This is one of those “I’m explaining, not justifying” moments. Having said that: I think these threads give us a skewed view of the whole situation, leading to a completely unresolvable “whyyy???” Reaction.
The thing that made these people do something was probably some typical aging flaw like wrinkles or sagging skin. We don’t see that in the photos.
What we do see in the photos is:
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a “before” photo that’s probably 10-15 years old, showing the person when they were young. We think “what was wrong with that???” But you have to age them 15 years to answer that question.
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an “after” photo that’s as unflattering as possible. We all know that from one photo to the next, a person can look more or less photogenic depending on lighting, their expression, etc. Photos in a post like this are hyperselected for unattractiveness, especially of their surgery.
I believe in aging realistically but I’m also a man and my career isn’t bound up in the entertainment industry where my appearance is literally everything.
So given all this, I can still have a distaste for cosmetic surgery and shake my head at people doing it, but I don’t QUITE have total bewilderment over why WHY WWWHHHYYY??? because I can mainly see how the post is manipulated to produce that reaction, and I opt out of that manipulation.
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.
Did they have gender affirming surgeries?!
They are desperately trying to look good enough for Trump to give them a creepy grin and a quick grab of their ass.
This but unironically. I have no prrof but I'm convinced the GOP attracts a certain type of women. As soon as they get some of that promised moolah, the plastic surgery starts.
Imagine hating yourself so much that you're a woman and decide to be a Republican.
There's your answer.
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.
That doesn't make sense though, because most of those women are legitimately better looking before the surgery.
old bats? they look like old boots.
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.
Like Sneeches with stars and Sneeches without stars upon thars.
I wish we lived in a world with people that complicated. I wish there were evil masterminds on even the most basic level, because it would imply a greater potential for our species in all regards.
These old marionettes are suffering from a basket of mental health issues stemmed from decades... maybe centuries, of constant approval seeking from a world of only one kind of man, the only kind they will ever be around so they can only imagine a dimension of sneering and leering and being literally abandoned and alone for displaying anything but the most over-top display of cartoonish, 2-dimensional caricature of femininity, because any variation or subtly in displaying gender identity is not allowed in the superficial hellworld deep within the warp that is conservative celebrity.
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.
It's like the fascist version of the Habsburg jaw.
Except they paid someone to make them look like this
this is probably the gender affirming care they should be concerned about
They actually look human in the before pics. Glad to know they got adjustments to make it obvious that’s not the case.
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.
Holy hell Loomer was actually somewhat attractive once upon a time.
Kimberly Guilfoyle looked like a quite attractive human before she turned onto a blow up doll.
Holy shit, Laura looks awful after all that surgery.
I wonder how much of their actions are justified internally by their hatred of how they look now
there's just no way that they think that they look good. like, most people, even conventionally unattractive ones, if they are happy good people they probably think they look okay. and they probably do.
none of these people look okay after that work, and nowhere close to attractive.
maybe they're just shitty people to begin with, but I do wonder how much of what they do is because they're unhappy with their appearance now and they just kind of take it out on everybody.
They all look hideous, I normally wouldn’t say that about another person, but these freaks chose to look like this.
Surely they can see the malformations? Perhaps they convince themselves that its beauty, in the same way they see greatness and and worship a child rapist.
That Loomer lady sure did herself dirty.
If you really want to be surprised, she's only like 32 years old.
She looks 50+.
"Temu Jigsaw" is what I've heard her called. Apropos
Bruh. It's not like. They were ugly before. They look like torture victims from Hellraiser.
It's kind of a thing we are seeing everywhere these days.
People need to halt on these type of elective procedures. It gets expensive, you all start looking the same, and it's ugly.
They're all ghouls.
I appreciate them going to the trouble of making their appearance better match their ghoulish personalities.
Fucking up your face is literally a MAGA woman's tattoo at this point.
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