Hair and Beauty in the Wizarding World

[uncmark]

No: HPFGUIDX 37187

I was reading posts on Snape's oily hair and rembered something I 
posted last month. If you hade magical powers, wouldn't you be as 
beautiful as possible? Or in a world of Magic would the views of 
beauty differ?

Snape is content to leave his oily hair long and greasy. If there was 
a potion that could fix hair, wouldn't the Hogwart's Potion Master 
have it?

Before the Yule Ball, Hermione spends three hours getting ready, not 
Long by our Muggle standards, straightening her bushy hair. (I'm 
picturing the before and after actress in the Princess Diaries.)

Hermione impresses everyone, and admits to using 'liberal amounts of 
Sleekeasy's Hair Potion... "but its too much bother to use every 
day."' 

So there is hair potion, Is it just that Hermione considers it too 
much trouble or that she values books more than looks? Remember Krum 
asked her out before she used the potion. (I think he enjoyed meeting 
a girl he could talk to who didn't faun over him just because he was 
a sports star.)Remember Hermione's quote "They only like him because 
he's famous!"

I reread sections of the books dealing with the wizard media. There 
is no mention of a wizard equivalent of TV or Movies. The wizards at 
the world cup didn't even know the difference between men and women's 
clothes. There was a best smile contest in Witch's Weekly, but no 
equivalant to Cosmo with unrealistic views of beauty.

There is talk of wizarding cures for acne and Eloise Midgen 
accidentally cursed her nose off. and Gilderoy Lockheart slept in 
curlers and talked about making a line of hair acre products.

It would be a good topic for discussion. Would you use a spell 
instead of buying makeup? Would there be sufficient motivation 
(profit) to get  skilled wizards making instant beauty spells?

Uncmark