If it were truly undetectable, I don’t think they’d bother. They want to look like one of Trump’s lumpen-faced groupies or a washed up Las Vegas magician. Their Hellraisered faces are like a meat-based country club membership card.

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    It’s definitely a status thing, but I think the extreme it’s been taken to has more to do with an erosion and warping of reasonable beauty standards than anything. More of an act of “because I can” than anything. I think a lot of the people who you look at and think “what the fuck” actually think they are making themselves more beautiful and attractive. I don’t think someone who has everything and can get whatever they want would purposely make themselves look grotesque, but I’m neither rich, nor a psychologist, so maybe I’m totally wrong…

    It’s kind of like how there’s a gaudy stupid looking hyper-expensive version of everything, like those giant hideous watches with diamonds encrusted on every surface… Someone think’s it’s beautiful or shows status, but most of us probably just think it looks stupid.

    The Bogdanoffification has been happening for a while…

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      I have a dentist office near me that also offers Botox. There’s also a boulevard that has a billboard advertising it. My area is not exactly considered the most affluent of areas.

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        I worked at a dental lab once and we had a patient who The doctor said wanted bigger teeth.

        Having made teeth for a while, this was a first for everyone in the lab. At some point teeth don’t get much bigger. At some point the amount of metal and porcelain were putting into the mouth of this 82-year-old woman is a substantial weight of material not to mention its volume.

        When one doctor refused to make any bigger teeth she went to other doctors who required her to pay up front. We got this lady’s case back a dozen times.

        We’ve remade this thing from scratch at her expense and she looked downright cartoonish every time we’d get photos back.

        The frame for her full arch mandibular implant retained PFM was the single largest cast of gold alloy anyone in the entire lab had ever poured or seen poured for dental work.

        Some people have money and they’re addicted to the process. I can’t think of any other reason for this lady to have done that.

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        It’s about $200 if you just want to calm down your resting bitch face for a few months. And women are criticized about equally for having RBF as for getting “work done.” Minimal Botox isn’t nearly as obvious as most people seem to think, so why not?

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        It can fall under the same umbrella. Unrealistic beauty standards being set by the “rich”, who some people look up to as role models. If there were something that you could do that you might be able to afford, like botox or lip fillers, that you believe would make you more beautiful, closer to your role model… If that sort of thing matters to you, then yeah, you might go for it. I can even take the same analogy of watches above, because there are definitely cheap imitation versions of the gaudy diamond-encrusted ones.

        I was sort of thinking more like this though with respect to extreme alterations…

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        Botox doesn’t have to be expensive and ridiculous. Last gf was cute as shit at 50-yo. She’d just get a few pokes every 3-6 months. Her face wasn’t plastic or unnatural, you’d never know. Maybe a bad example as she hadn’t had shots for months after I met her and she didn’t have wrinkles to speak off.