The Tyranny Of The Beauty Industry
From the day they're born, women are subjected to a malicious, tyrannical, ideological regime of conformity that essentially enslaves them to the beauty product and cosmetics industry for the rest of their lives.
Soon after many girls are born, their ears are pierced so that they can look cute for their mothers as they gurgle and puke in front of an audience that coos on cue.
As they grow up, little girls (minus a few tomboys) are introduced to thousands of prompts and inputs from fashion magazines, cartoons, movies, TV series, games, dolls, internet influencers, and the indoctrinated grown ups that encourage them and incessantly remind them of how ugly they are in their natural form.
This messaging eventually leads to behavior such as putting on makeup while driving which has become as commonplace as driving while texting and other obnoxious road habits. It's a sign of the times that many women feel that they need to put their "face on" before leaving the house or doing a livestream because without this artificial "face" they feel naked.
By the time girls hit puberty, enter the high school and college environments, they are bombarded with all kinds of sexual signalling that exacerbates the face painting and hair arranging rituals even more. To add to the face painting and extensive hair dressing procedures, these environments have now morphed into a competition to see which girl can piss their parents off the most with tattoos and piercings that used to be the exclusive domain of sailors, bikers, and crack whores.
The Business
Cosmetics, makeup, perfumes, skin treatments, sunscreen, hairdressing, hair dyes, nail polish, fake tan lotions, mudpacks and other superficial beauty procedures form part of the daily routine for billions of women across the planet. Even when they die, makeup is liberally applied to the corpse in a last ditch attempt to "keep up appearances."
This "industry," which includes all the manipulation and advertising required for it to exist in the first place, has grown to such and extent that it eclipses other popular consumer products such as a coffee and chocolate by a significant margin.
Here's coffee...
The global coffee market size was estimated at USD 269.27 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 369.46 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 5.3% from 2025 to 2030.
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/coffee-market
And chocolate...
The global chocolate market size held a size of USD 125 billion in 2024 and is projected to expand to over 3.3% CAGR from 2025 to 2034.
https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/chocolate-market
And now the beauty industry...
The beauty industry generates over $650 billion in revenue worldwide.
The men's personal care market is projected to hit $276.9 billion by 2030.
Skincare is projected to generate up to $177 billion by 2025.
Beauty companies spent an estimated $7.7 billion on advertising in 2022.
Cosmetic retailers report $17.09 billion in online sales.
That's some serious money being put aside for face paint.
And there are signs that after so many years of poisoning their customers (victims) the "industry" is attempting to (being forced to) adapt to new regulations that restrict a large number of chemical ingredients that were being used (and still are in the US) with wild abandon without a care in the world for the consequences.
The EU has banned over 150 times more ingredients than the US for use in beauty products (FDA, European Cosmetic Commission)
US-based brands looking to expand into the European market should be aware of the massive gulf between the two regions’ ingredient restrictions. The EU currently prohibits 1,680 ingredients from use in cosmetic products.
And then there's hair. Let's not forget how much time women (and an increasing number of men that still have hair) spend arranging the mysterious creature that sits on top of their heads in all manner of shapes, lengths and colors as if their lives depended on it.
The haircare market is expected to reach $151.07 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research)
Wildly colored hair has entered the mainstream. Hairstylists need products to serve their clients, and consumers need products to manage their colored hair at home.
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/beauty-industry-stats
Ha! Of course. Must be all the purple, blue and green hairdos that are popping up all across the far left, liberal ecosystem as they conquer the world with hair dye, tattoos and piercings!
But, I'll get to that in a minute. We need to understand and discus where all of this is going and how it's likely to end at some point in the not too distant future.
Hicks know best
I'm the product of a community where women used to work in the fields and on the beaches getting roasted under the sun while the men would set sail to fish or travel the world on merchant ships. The facial wrinkles in their later years conveyed a life well lived. Their bright eyes shone beyond leathery skin, each smile revealing a happiness grounded in natural living, a sense of belonging to the world, not as a canvas to be dolled up with beauty products, but as a human being crafted in the image of nature itself.
They weren't concerned about looking pretty and doll-like for most of the year. They would freshen up, put on a dress and maybe a head scarf to go to church on Sunday. The lipstick (if they had any) would come out on "fiesta" night to attract a potential suitor, a lifelong mate that was equally unconcerned about skin care or eye shadow or mascara or foundation. When it came down to it, the men wanted a naturally attractive woman to settle down with and be the mother of their offspring.
Well, for obvious reasons, the old ways were not to last and women, instead of simply keeping good hygiene, dressing nicely, and tying their hair back and pursuing a healthy holistic lifestyle and mindset, became veritable blank slates for the predatory beauty industry to move in with full force and milk their wallets and their mental and physical health for everything they had.
The Joker Syndrome
This entire industry feeds on one thing—vanity. And vanity is one of the deadly sins. Batman's nemesis, the Joker, sports a ghoulish grin, garish clown makeup, green hair, and the eccentrically outlandish fashion sense that lets the audience know that this guy is a few sandwiches short of a full picnic.
The inhabitants of the central city enclosures in The Hunger Games series of films are also portrayed as overly concerned with fashion and etiquette, similarly smeared in copious amounts of cosmetic ointments and hair lotions. They also throw up their party food so they can continue eating. The pursuit of endless hedonistic pleasure-seeking becomes the goal when lower needs have been taken care of. The excessive attention to grooming, preening and comparison with others of the same clique are signs of a mentally ill society and these signs have been present among the higher echelon socialites since people smeared colored clay on their faces for the first time.
Apart from clowns, pock-marked whores and elite members of the upper class (pick any period, they're all equally disgusting), the only other people that would pile on the toxic (really was back in the day) face paints, extravagant wigs and flamboyant garb were traveling actors and models.
It's possible that the fashion industry with its coked up, chain-smoking, emaciated stick insects doubling as clothes horses carry most of the blame for how women want to look, what they believe they have to emulate to feel elegant and beautiful.
The real question is why they want to feel this way in the first place. Who put these ideas in their heads? Did men not find women attractive before the endless fashion and cosmetics tyranny took over our lives?
The Hollywood celebrity circuit may be an even more powerful emulation motivator and is still going strong whereas fashion models, on the whole, have declined as a reference for women as more and more negative press becomes attached to the profession.
Does makeup improve sales?
There exist professions where women are more likely to display augmented prettiness or attempts at artificial beauty as part of a rather blatant real estate sales pitch or simply as entertainment for the male customers as they cruise at 30,000 ft on Virgin Atlantic commercial flights.
There are professions where the dolling up may not be as much of a requirement but women still tend to fall in line and slap on (or cake on) the "beautification" treatment anyway, just in case, because, by now, it's part of the visual lexicon and any working woman that is facing the public is considered in a state of undress if she is not fully made up and hairdoo'd.
Customers may even react to such blasphemy by uttering words of concern. "Maybe she isn't feeling well today. I mean, look at her eyebags and her shitty complexion. Something must be up if she can't even be bothered to put her makeup on and get the full hair treatment before a day at work at the local college.
Men. In general. Do not suffer from this affliction. They get up, take a quick shower, shave if they absolutely must, quaff the hair, roll on the deodorant, slap on a suit and shoot off down the road without a care in the world about deep skin acid cleanses and which shade of lipstick (from a massive potential list) goes best with today's outfit.
But this is changing too ever since Beckham made it popular to be a metrosexual peacock strutting around in evermore silly outfits — a walking fashion statement pulled from the pages of the worst industry magazines and copied from the vomit-inducing daytime TV shows that shouldn't even exist in a sane society.
I have to be brutally honest here. I am incredibly grateful that I've never had to go through the painstaking routine of daily facial artistry and hair and paint removal that many women go through their entire adult lives. This is the very definition of personally and societally imposed tyranny. If all women simply stopped going to the hairdressers and purchasing thousands of dollars worth of cosmetics every year, the world might actually be a better place for it. Of course, some of the men would complain at first, but gradually a new reality would emerge and acceptance of the natural appearance of things would persist.
The so-called beauty industry would shrivel up and be replaced by natural healthcare products and supplements that promote visible improvements in hair, skin, eyes and other physical qualities as well as mental and spiritual attributes that increase a persons general well-being and happiness by reducing stress and alleviating trauma.
A Tale of Tattoos, Piercings and Plastic Surgery
And this is where it all ends in tears.
The race to artificially improve our looks, to be something that we are not, often ends up destroying the natural beauty that a healthy, happy female would have possessed had she not been bamboozled by the peddlers of these toxic chemical products.
Of 64 women, researchers found that 53% reported using soap, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, skin lightener, eyeliner, eyelash glue and other beauty products that contained formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives — toxins found to cause cancer in humans.
The new study shows that formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing products are present not only in hair relaxers but in a wide variety of beauty products, including some that women apply to their bodies far more frequently than chemical hair straighteners.
The average woman uses 12 different beauty products every day — cleansers, conditioners, hair dyes, fragrances, skin care products, scented lotions, nail polish, and makeup, to name a few. Take a quick glance at the labels, and you'll see a cocktail of chemical components.
You might assume that all these ingredients have been tested to ensure that they're safe for long-term use. That's not the case.
At least on the federal level, no one is checking to make sure that the chemicals you're putting on your body are harmless. "Products are tested to make sure they don't cause short-term problems, such as skin irritation. But they're not tested for long-term safety," says Dr. Kathryn M. Rexrode, associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Women's Health at Harvard Medical School. The FDA steps in only if people actually complain about a product because they suspect it harmed them. Prior to that, the onus is on the company alone.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/toxic-beauty
But all of this doesn't even scrape the barrel of sickness in society that makes women turn to Botox, liposuction and the old nip and tuck routine almost as if they're ordering a new handbag on Amazon.
We've all seen the before and after disasters that end up on the scrapheap of humanity after women (and some men) allow themselves to go under the scalpel, sometimes until their faces literally fall apart with no anchors left on which to hang the "masterpiece."
Tattoos, piercings, and even more extreme body modification techniques, applied by those seeking individuality and rebellion against boring conformity, are on the rise. These "creations" more and more end up looking like literal representations of demons. You have to wonder if there really are freakishly ugly interdimensional entities looking to break through into our reality just to mess with us or are people really this bored that they have come to enjoy self-harm and defacement.
Will a new generation rise up to challenge the current trends once they witness first hand the devastatingly deranged and sad appearance of their grand parents who once thought that getting a "sleeve" or an edgy neck tattoo or more piercings than the guy who fell in a pond of piranhas was a great idea?
I certainly hope so.
This trend has gone too far and it's a particularly harmful one judging by the studies and reports on product toxicity.
Until next time... for the love of everything natural, at least try to align with natures infinite wisdom just a little. It won't hurt. In fact, you'll feel much better. A huge weight will lift from your shoulders as you abandon the societally imposed toxic behaviors that should never have formed part of life in the first place.
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