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Mfs say they're using maths
There's defs a spectrum but maintaining beauty isn't just how your body looks. It's care washing and shaving, keeping abreast of fashion trends, skincare (sun, lips, pimples etc), knowing how to dress to set off your features, exercising, diet management etc.
There are very few people in the world that can just roll out of bed and look handsome in a street appropriate sense. True some people have it easier than others and some have more interest than others but it's always work. It's just you only see the finished product.
For sure, I'm plain boarding on ugly. I've never been tremendously interested in performing beauty and at my age as a women no matter how much effort I put in I'll never be visible again. It is what it is, we all just play our hands.
I'm sure everyone carries their own secret desires and anguishes, they're not evenly doled out but all you can do is try make the world kinder for those that come after, raging about it will just get you tired and bitter.
what i hate about these conversations is when i say im unattractive then people try to explain attractiveness to me like im not a human being and ends up being a not so subtle dig about how i must not have tried hard enough. like in 40 years of being alive ive never accidentally put on the right shirt or washed my face. its really so fucking insulting even if it is not meant to be
look, ive tried. its okay. im not destined to be physically attractive or ever get unsolicited compliments. it is what it is. its not anyone's fault. being ugly really is a lived experience that people who havent lived it just really dont understand and the more i try to explain it to folks on the occasion it gets brought up the more i realize there is just this uncrossable barrier of understanding they simply will never get
That wasn't my intention at all I'm sorry. I only meant to say that being beautiful all the time is a lot of effort, even for the people that find it realistic.
No about of skincare is going to make someone with burn scars look like a model or whatever.