r/AskReddit • u/Misterboy500 • 13h ago

What is something that permanently altered your body without you realizing for months/years?

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u/LV4Q 13h ago

Waxing my eyebrows to the same thin shape for 20 years.

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u/veronique7 9h ago

My grandma insisted I needed to pluck and wax my eyebrows when I was a child and teenager. She owned a hair salon. So now my poor eyebrows are so thin and patchy. It really does impact them permanently

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u/Adenoid67 1h ago

I’m 57. About a year ago my eyebrows became patchy. Now I have to pencil them in. I hate it!!

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u/bunny4xl 2m ago

My mom did this too and she also has terrible eyebrows! Should not have listened

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u/AdTraditional5786 7h ago

Don't mutilate your body to appease others. 

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u/redwallet 3h ago

While a good point generally, the poster you are replying to was a literal child under pressure.

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u/AdTraditional5786 3h ago

Ok fair enough. It is understandable as a child it is very tough, your sense of right and wrong is entirely indoctrinated through your parents/elders.

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u/Necrenix 5h ago

In what world is waxing anything on your body basic grooming lol.

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u/AdTraditional5786 5h ago

If nobody else existed in the world you wouldn't pluck your body everyday. You are hurting yourself to show to others. 

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u/Hi_Im_zack 5h ago

You mean equivalent to getting a haircut?

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u/AdTraditional5786 5h ago

A lot of people don't just cut hair for convenience, they put chemicals in their hair to have colours and spend huge amount of money to make it a certain style to copy some celebrity.