a lot of content that focuses on advancing "natural

a lot of content that focuses on advancing "natural beauty" over artificial beauty - looking better without make-up, or dunking on bad plastic surgery - treats the alternative as more natural and ergo more beautiful but they never use a real cave troll as a comparison set

I have artificially straightened teeth, artificially lasered eyes, thanks to tirzepatide, I'm artificially not a heccin chonker , and there's definitely a lot of pretty artificial creams and fragrances: just looking like a regular dude at all is a carefully crafted and curated illusion, it feels mean-spirited to bemoan other people's illusions