Beauty at the cost of dignity?

Everyone wants to look their best there's no denying that, it's all part of the wonderful theater of daily life, but at what cost? Many times it is women that are desperate to look their best at all costs but men are just as vain, and sometimes a lot more. But let us first address this obsession we have as a society, again it springs from the media, magazines, bill boards, television and film, they all say that we must dress a certain way and look a certain way- and by doing this we will have elevated our social standing and be respected. The need to be respected and to belong is one reason the other reason is for women to look better than other women in order to impress men.
It seems no matter how far we come as a society, men will always have something to do with our actions. This is one of the issues as to why there will be no solidarity between women: competition and the need to out do each other will always rear it's ugly head.
Another issue and this ties in with my earlier comment about raising your social standing, it plays into the mindset that if you look this good, you must have a lot of money, after all celebrities look amazing and they have piles of cash!

Forget about make up or your daily moisturising rituals, some people go as far as to go under the knife and have fat removed, implants or even have poison injected into their head, all in the vain attempt of looking younger. A case arose in the US fairly recently and was reported on Fox news, where a women that waned a bigger butt put herself in risk. Unknowing to her the surgeon was a fake and put high grade silicone in her that had devastating affects.

It still baffles me as to how some people can be so vain but it's not just about vanity it's also laziness. People no longer have the required patience, like the case I just made reference to, there are simple exercise that you can do to shape your bum naturally but this will take time and effort which a sad amount of people are unwilling to give, instead they want the instant results. People who do this kind of cosmetic surgery incur the pain and trauma of the surgery and the rehabilitation afterwards, now for a butt enlargement this involves not being to sit down for 4 weeks or you may risk displacing the implants, just imagine the humiliation of not being able to sit down for 4 weeks! People also fail to take into account that their bodies are constantly changing and the will put on weight, now what do the think will happen to the implant? It will stay hard while the flesh around it starts to sag and drupe.

But if celebrities do it then it must be good for you, people should realise that they're not celebrities and aspiring to be like them is not always good for your health.