Say No To Fakery

This post is directed towards the fakes of the world.
I'm talking about anything from fake nails to fake personalities.
I'm talking about the people who feel "naked" without an inch of make-up on their face.
I find it quite sad really, to think that some people are so delusional about what other people think, and so addicted to those thoughts, that they actually deform themselves.
The history of humans using make-up spans at least 6000 years. The Egyptians used copper and lead ore to create cosmetics, and people were changing their appearences before that, with ash and berry juices. Over the centuries, women used burnt matches to darken their eyes, berries to stain their lips and young boy's urine to fade their freckles. They even swallowed ox blood in some misguided attempt to improve their complextions.
Women, and a minority of men, throughout history have risked their health with homemade cosmetics. In some cultures, they used lead, arsnic, mercury, and even leeches to give themselves the 'pale' apearence that was deemed so beautiful long ago.
Nowadays, instead of poisoning themselves with lead and mercury, they use products full of chemicals they can't pronuce, that are tested on animals that they don't care to think about.
But society's 'thirst' for beauty doesn't stop at meer cosmetics, no. It goes on to crave surgical procediures that perminantly change the patient's appearance, and very often go wrong. Anyone who's been reading or watching the news will remeber the problems of the 'PIP silicone-based breast implants'. This was when the french-based company PIP (Poly Implant Prothese)used "low quility material (industrial silicone)" in thier inmplants. These "low-quility material" implants ruptured, causing accute pain and infalmmation. This is only one example of what goes wrong with cosmetic surgery.
Cosmetic surgery can be anything from the breast implants mentioned above, to penile enlargements and cosmetic gynaecology. I find it really sad that people are so unhappy with their bodies that they are willing to go through acute pain, scarring, and less than garenteed good results to change them.
The Cosmetics and Cosmetic Surgery industries make billions of what ever currency is envolved every year. Imagine what this money could be used for instead.
That money could cure cancer. Poverty. Famine. Even war. But no. Instead, it makes products that are used then thrown away. It perminantly scars people's bodies. It causes depression, poverty ,and pain. It even kills people.
So please, dear readers. Say no to fakery.
~ Rosie Thorne