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Did women or girls worry about their lips or eyelashes before the 1990's?

Asked by Kraigmo (9055points) July 12th, 2010

It flabbergasts me that people can fixate on something so pointless, like lips or eyebrows, to the point of wanting to make them puffier or fluffier.

Lots of women and girls now worry about whether their lips are full enough, or if their eyelashes are long enough.

Until I read about this, I never noticed the size of ANY person’s lips or eyebrows. It seems like such a stupid thing. It’s a part of the body that nobody used to care about, or am I wrong?

And now there’s an RX medicine that grows eyelashes? WTF? Unless you’re going through chemo, why would you take such a pill?

Does anyone think that a women with short eyelashes is somehow less healthy or attractive or aesthetic looking?

And as for puffy lips… I’ve never seen a botox lip that looks better than a natural lip… have any of you? Natural puffy lips are fine, but why would a person artificially do that outside of just being brainwashed by some advertising agency or magazine?

Some standards of beauty… such as proper weight (being “height-weight proportionate”) have a basis in health.

But what’s the deal with the fluffy eyelashes and puffy lips?

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