Forgetting for the moment what the world ideally should be (ideally we should all be tzaddikim who only look at a person’s inner beauty), nonetheless the reality is that there are standards of beauty, some of which change with time, and some which remain a standard, and anything that helps any to feel more comfortable (within reason) in having met those standards, is not a bad thing. If a girl has really bad acne or colorless eyelashes, don’t try to sell her on the notion that she is fine the way she is. She might be fine, but she can look much better, and realistically, though we should not judge a book by its cover, most people do. And if the cover looks unattractive, it is harder to get people to read the potential wisdom of what is inside.
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