“Well, viewed in the round, beauty culture starts to look nothing short of abusive. It asks women to harm themselves for its pleasure, then changes its mind – it wants them to harm themselves differently. It requests women appear a certain way, then mocks them for trying so hard to please. It demands impossible things. Perhaps we should consider the possibility that female insecurity is not in fact an unfortunate side-effect of beauty culture but an end goal.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/14/buccal-fat-removal-is-a-new-take-on-an-old-theme-a-means-to-keep-women-in-their-place