- Cosmetics: Long before bioengineering allowed us to look exactly as we wished, people used to approximate beauty by crudely drawing on their faces with colored sticks and brushes. It was considered attractive even though now it horrifies us. More women did this than men because in their benighted societies females were judged more heavily on their looks. There were people who did this professionally, paid to try to cover up the hideousness of these primitive, imperfect people. Everybody pretended to not notice how phony it looked. Or perhaps they were too unintelligent to be aware.
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