[HPforGrownups] Re: Hair and Beauty in the Wizarding World

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 37232

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "uncmark" <uncmark at y...> wrote:
> 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?
>

Remember Eloise Midgen (or whatever her lastname was) of Hufflepuff who
tried to curse her pimples off and ended up cursing her nose off? And Prof.
Sprout was talking about using the plants she had the class working on to
make an acne-removing potion (balm, whatever)? I basically think it points
out that in the Wizarding world they simply have magical equivalents of
muggle beauty products. So they have bubotuber puss instead of Oxy or Noxema
and teeth-shrinking mirrors instead of braces. Thus you can have clear skin
and straight teeth and a charm to make your hair flash different colors but
if there are spells that make a witch/wizard actually look different they
are probably very high-level magic available for ministry workers who need
to go undercover and such.

Alina of Distant Place
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