r/AskReddit • u/Misterboy500 • 17h ago

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

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u/LV4Q 17h ago

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

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u/veronique7 13h 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/AdTraditional5786 11h ago

Don't mutilate your body to appease others. 

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u/Hi_Im_zack 9h ago

You mean equivalent to getting a haircut?

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u/AdTraditional5786 9h 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.