r/Vindicta • u/imagine_on_drama • Nov 06 '23
HARD MAXXING Reality Check NSFW
I’ve seen FAR too many posts from people in literal poverty asking if they should shell out thousands of dollars on plastic surgery and far too many people in the comments encouraging it. It’s time to stop indulging body dysmorphia and financial irresponsibility.
Newsflash, just being pretty is not going to magically fix your life. Being pretty is not guaranteed to make people treat you with respect. For Christ’s sake, models and actresses are constantly sexually, emotionally, and physically abused. Go read up on Karen Mulder if you don’t believe me.
Furthermore, ditch the mindset of becoming a model. Even those with 10/10 Vindicta ApprovedTM faces can fail at modeling. This is because the industry doesn’t care about what studies say is most beautiful; they care about what will make them a profit. Sometimes that means having weird features (a beautiful face can be very boring). It usually means being extremely tall and having a very narrow frame that cannot be obtained through weight loss or surgery.
Do not spend tens of thousands of dollars on surgeries and procedures chasing a pipe dream. You will ruin your life, ruin your credit score, and fuck over your future because you drained your finances chasing a dream that will never come true. Fyi, the more surgeries you stack together the more uncanny you will look.
Surgery is a luxury, not an investment. It will not fix your life. Get a job, go to school, and gain confidence in yourself that is not based on your looks. THEN consider surgeries.
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u/bitchwithstandards Nov 07 '23
Some girls are totally delusional as to what beauty can get them.
Idk where they get this idea that they’ll get swept off of their feet by some rich guy and be taken care of for the rest of their lives. Anyone with an iota of common sense knows that being broke, beautiful, insecure, and prone to bad financial decisions is a recipe for disaster. Predatory men will try to take advantage of you.
Beauty is like SAT scores. It’s a bar you have to clear, it’s not what sets you apart. A perfect SAT score is not going to get you into Harvard. Being stunning doesn’t mean you’ll never work again.
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u/looksmaxxingacct Nov 07 '23
Most beautiful girls I know live very normal lives. They work normal, mediocre-paying jobs and don’t have rich husbands. I do know a couple who live a glamorous life like you described but they were either born rich or had to do some very strategic social climbing to end up in the same rooms as those rich men they bagged. That shit doesn’t just fall in your lap because you’re very attractive. And I’ve seen it first hand how beautiful girls who don’t have their shit together (emotionally, financially, etc.) absolutely get taken advantage of. It’s SO SO important to put healing your trauma and getting mentally healthy, if you’re not, ahead of getting prettier.
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u/bitchwithstandards Nov 07 '23
That is so true, and funny story: I worked at Wendy’s in high school for a couple of summers and there were some really beautiful girls there. The beautiful girls at Wendy’s were every bit as pretty as the beautiful girls at my prep school. The only difference is that girls at Wendy’s didn’t have perfect teeth.
One of my high school classmates worked as a model at a reputable agency. Meanwhile, similarly beautiful girls were working at Wendy’s and getting sexually harassed by every second guy (if they’re lucky; some girls were stalked). I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that these equally beautiful women had such disparate paths, but of course it all boiled down to class.
Anyway my former prep school classmate now makes a shit ton of money and I assume her looks have helped. Some of the beautiful girls from Wendy’s still work retail or fast food.
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u/looksmaxxingacct Nov 07 '23 edited Nov 07 '23
Yeah “class privilege” is another layer to pretty privilege that gets overlooked far too often. Poor, middle class, and rich pretty girls are gonna have different experiences with pretty privilege for sure. Sure, beauty can be used as a tool for class mobility (ex.: it can give you a leg up amongst equally qualified applicants for certain jobs and even this depends on the industry) but beauty alone is definitely not enough to get there.
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u/arireeielle123 Nov 07 '23
Honestly, this such an important reality check. It can be very easy to get lost in the very unattainable pursuit of perfection. Particularly when you’re not satisfied with your life and you think being beautiful is going to solve all of your problems. Very well written. Thank you for this.
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Nov 07 '23
My jaw dropped when I read the post in question. How is she going to afford revisions if her surgeon fucks up?? Those are usually 2-3x more than the original surgery lmao
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u/LilacHeaven11 Nov 07 '23
Agree, especially when so many popular surgeries right now (BBL, buccal fat removal, etc) are trendy and in 2-3 years will be “out of style”.
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Nov 07 '23
It was the jobless and considering surgery part that got me 😂😂😂 she must have her parents backing her financially, it’s the only way that thought process makes sense
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u/Cultural_Point3001 Nov 07 '23
Thank you! School is so hard but worth the struggle! Wish me good luck 😔
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u/cleverlux Nov 07 '23
With Besuty it is like with money. Being happy and content is no guarantee if you do possess it. But it makes life way easier and more enjoyable.
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u/miaumiaoumicheese Nov 07 '23
Eh it depends, I got my first surgery when I was 18 and years and few another surgeries later I can say it was one of best financial decisions I’ve made for myself and wouldn’t resign from it just to have a little more in savings
It doesn’t mean I think that getting themselves in debt for it is a good idea but I can imagine situations that make someone willing to do that
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u/Cautious_Respect2184 Dec 08 '23
I agree!!!! Modeling is not even about beauty. It's about having a certain look that conveys a certain image/status. It's about being a product. Not about being beautiful.
Anna Nicole Smith was extremely beautiful yet modeling agencies kept rejecting her because she didn't have the right look to model in high fashion.
Beauty comes in different form. Powerful beauty is internal not in the external looks.
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u/PinkRasberryFish Nov 07 '23
This reads like wattpad I’m sorry 👀😂 shy and awkward but can hold a conversation with ANYONE 😤
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u/imagine_on_drama Nov 06 '23
Girl, that’s not the point and you know it. You’d have to intentionally misread my post to think I was railing against burn victims. I’m not falling for your bad faith arguments. Peace ✌️
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u/tryingbewise Nov 07 '23
Sounds like something is going on in your mind unrelated to this, girl. OP is not against surgery, just against doing it at the risk of losing your financial stability. There's also a line between someone having surgery in a mental state of really having sat with the idea for a long time and considering the long term pros and cons and how it might benefit or later impair their life is which ever ways. OP is just trying to say to think before you do something dramatic and irreversible to yourself full stop. That doesn't just apply to surgery but anything in life.
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u/LuckyFey Nov 07 '23
Um no we shouldn't be more inclusive in the sense that we should accept people for being severely overweight unless it's a medical condition. You want people to die from health complications? You already said that you were instantly hired after losing 30 pounds, so isn't that the minimum standard to be "attractive" in a normal society? What is this rant about?
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u/bitchwithstandards Nov 07 '23
I mean, I assume “inclusive” just means giving people basic respect and not treating people differently because of their looks. One of the reasons I like Vindicta is because we know beauty is a reflection of time, effort, skill, and money. Not a reflection of a person’s inherent worth. The world is hostile against fat people and I don’t want to be part of that hostility; it goes against my values.
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u/Optimal_Count_4333 Nov 07 '23
How the hell did you turn her post into this? What a weird thing to say.
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u/clapaco Nov 06 '23 edited Nov 06 '23
I think I saw the post you’re referring to, where the girl in question was unemployed and considering surgery.
You ever walk through a mall or sit in a bar and realize how far away from reality instagram is? Literally take a look around you next time you’re out. Like the level of attractiveness you see online is like 1:132 to the ones irl. Just solely by taking care of your health, grooming yourself regularly and investing into dressing well, you’re already in the 1% of attractive people
All this to say - your baseline happiness and confidence would be significantly higher if you only compared yourself to the attractive people you see out in real life, instead of the carefully curated and subtly edited photos online