re: Why do attractive women paint themselves up to look exactly like other online "babes?"

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Anyone that focuses that much on being "attractive" likely leads a pretty sad life internally.


Anyone who focuses that much on being "attractive" should figure out that you don't get there by plastering on makeup and posing for overly worked over photos.

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Having known and photographed attractive young ladies, the simplest answer is that some of them don't have the mental thought processes to "figure out that you don't get there" or even where the "there" goal may be, other than to be seen as attractive by others. I've known young models who were clinically narcissistic and under psychiatric care from the age of ten. Trying to enlighten them in the slightest is as ineffective as pointing out actual facts to committed political supporters or religious extremists. On the other hand, I have known some who were remarkably unaffected by their beauty and have gone on to become worthwhile individuals (scientists and doctors).

Makeup has been around for thousands of years, and women can be indoctrinated at early ages. I watched studio HAMU artists work on my preteen daughter before photo shoots and fashion shows. It can enhance natural beauty or in the cases you point out, cause generic mannequin-like loss of individual identity.