I am always secretly appalled by certain 'beauty practices. How can anyone do ANYTHING with those long decorated fingernails. The Chinese encouraged the growth of long fingernails to advertise status and [necessarily] idle lives. How do women with these talons cook, paint, type, attend to bodily functions, avoid ripping them off?
I also see people with those vast carpet sweeper eyelashes and feel amazement. Does looking like a giraffe make them feel attractive?
Buttock enlargement [or boob enhancement, for that matter]. WHY? And tottering around in high heels- are the wrecked feet worth it? If you ever saw a photo of Sarah Jessica Parker's poor feet, you would bin the Monolos as an act of self-harm. I fought a vigorous battle with my mother [first] and then with society, not to go to sleep in curlers, or wear a corset [and stockings] or hobble around in foot destroying shoes, or [later] to waste hours depilating pubes or attending nail bars.
Men who remove all their body hair come across as self-obsessed and slightly creepy-ditto women who care so much about something so trivialising. It's a free world, so they are welcome to their obsessions, but it's NOT for me!