Oops, did I say destruction? I meant perfection. But if not used correctly, these beautifying objects can definitely lead to destruction.
For starters, ear piercing: Most girls our age are assumed to have pierced ears, but who decided it would be a good idea to puncture a hole in your ear and call it beautiful? I sympathize with Hallie from The Parent Trap, because who wants to have a needle shoved in their ear? Especially if you're already concerned about a mysterious, newfound twin sister.
Then there’s mascara. Maybe it’s Maybelline; maybe it’s a torturous object that could cause blindness. When you’re in a rush to get ready, but don’t want to skip out on mascara, there’s a good chance you could stab yourself in the eye with your mascara brush. Not only is it painful, but you also have to deal with getting globs of black mascara out of your eye.
On a similar note: eyeliner. If you’re trying to go for that doe-eyed but still sexy look, copious amounts of eyeliner may be required. Using eyeliner can be incredibly tough to master, especially when it comes to the “water line.” Somehow I’m expected to be able to pull on the skin near the bottom of my eye, just so I can color it with a pencil? Why? Poking yourself in the eye with eyeliner is just as dangerous as poking yourself in the eye with mascara, but, at least when it comes to eyeliner, you don’t have to spend forever getting black gook out of your eye.
Two words: skin pincher. Whoops, I mean eyelash curler. If you’re like me, you suffer from small, uncurled lashes, but wait! There’s a cure! Just buy an eyelash curler. This deadly weapon will allow you to make your eyelashes look longer and perfectly curled - that is, if you’re good at it. When I first started using an eyelash curler, I would always get too close to the skin and end up pinching it in the process. Talk about painful. But for some reason, I still went back for more, and I use my eyelash curler to this day.
And if you don’t have white teeth, don’t fret; there’s always white strips! These thin strips of plastic stick on your teeth and magically make them whiter. Okay, so it’s not really magic, but it’s close enough. After just a couple of days, you can notice the improvement, and, the longer you use them, the whiter your teeth get. But it’s not with no cost to you. There’s the obvious cost of the actual white strips, but the lesser-known cost is the pain you have to suffer through if you have sensitive teeth. If you have sensitive teeth, these white strips will only intensify the sensitivity. Say goodbye to ice cold water, at least for a little while after finishing white strips, unless you’re willing to endure the searing pain you’ll feel when the water hits your teeth.
As Amanda Bynes said in She’s the Man, “Heels are a male invention designed to make women's butt look smaller ... and to make it harder for them to run away.” A relationship with high heels can best be described as a love-hate relationship. You love the way they make your calves look, and the way they just make the entire outfit come together, but you absolutely HATE the pain you feel after wearing them for just a little while. Bynes' Viola character was right: heels do “make it harder for them to run away.” Even a fast-paced walk is extremely difficult and awkward in heels. So, if you know you’re running late for something, make sure you don’t wear heels because you’ll be even later because of them.
But despite all of the possible negative consequences, we do all of these things willingly and try almost anything, just in the name of beauty. C'est la vie.
