Well if it weren't for men oogling over women with unflawed faces, large breasts, straight as an arrow teeth, long perfect hair or certain colors of hair...women wouldn't feel inclined to change themselves so much. The majority of men fell over in their own drool when Pam Anderson hit the screens which sent women to seek plastic surgeons and stylists. And that was a woman with bleached hair, lots of make up and implants!
I think it shouldn't really matter if society accepts it or not, if you are happy and it makes you more comfortable in your own skin, do it. It's not "society" that has to live with it, it's you.
I would challenge this conclusion as false and the widespread adoption of fake add ons as hopelessly misguided.
Many people have convinced themselves that “I’m doing this for myself not for other people.” Not true. People conform to pressure to look “good”--whatever that means--in order to win the approval of others. They also do it because (and this is the real reason) they are insecure. No amount of cosmetic alterations (or muscles) can resolve insecurities--they can only, temporarily, mask them.
We’ve all seen the people on TV whom are addicted to cosmetic surgery or have bigorexia. These people are just extreme examples of the damaged psychologies that so many of us are wrestling with.
There is nothing wrong with taking care of yourself, good grooming, and fitness, but when the preoccupation to look artificially good (conform to someone else's definition of beauty) is so extreme that it is enveloping teenagers and the prepubescent, so extreme that perfectly healthy people are willing to risk their health for the sake of vanity, so extreme that even poor people feel so driven to “fix” nonexistent flaws they are willing to go deeper into debt then we have left good sense behind and collectively walked off a cliff.
Society DOES have to live with it. All of us today are living with the mistakes of our parents and grandparents. We shouldn’t be so quick to repeat them and pass them on to the next generation.
Denial is a powerful and real phenomenon and we all wrestle with it... I’m sure David Sharp would say “yes” but could any reasonably objective person say this man is happy before or after he did whatever he did to make himself look this way? If this physical change is going on outside, just imagine what is going on inside.