I know a guy, bless his heart, who is unendingly surprised to learn that women do things to themselves to try to be more conventionally attractive. Most recently he learned that bleach blondes are almost always, well, bleached. He thought it was a common natural hair color for adult women. LOL.
In any case, I thought the photographs below — by Zed Nelson, and sent along by zeynaparsel — were neat. They disembody the tools women use to enhance their beauty, revealing them as undeniably artificial.
Eyelash extensions:
Breast implants:
Hair extension:
Buy the book.
For more from Zed Nelson, see our post on cosmetic surgery and being normal.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
