Fellow lovers of unnatural beauty,
Imagine the following scenario: you are the breadwinner of your household and your (house)wife is a Bimbo/Barbie. When making a monthly budget, how much money do you put aside (on average) to maintain (or improve) your wife's appearance and to keep her happy?
Furthermore, you should assume the following conditions to apply:
- Only recurring costs will be included in the budget; surgeries and such are excluded.
- Only costs that (in)directly pertain to her
personal appearance or wellbeing will be included in the budget. Costs that pertain to both of you in any kind of way (restaurants, dates, travel -- even if you only do those things for her) are excluded.
- Your wife is in her 20s and she has not given birth: botox and other procedures are not necessary.
- The costs should be expressed as a monthly average of the total yearly costs. If her teeth are bleached four times per year for 90$ per time, then the annual total is 360$ (4 * 90) and thus the monthly average is 30$ (360 / 12).
- Your wife is high-maintenance, always wants to look her best (in the plastic/fake sense) from head to toe, and likes to be pampered. She won't do her nails at home and will not accept cutting corners when it comes down to the standards of products and treatments: they must be of decent quality, at the very least. At the same time, however, she doesn't have to go to a salon every single time for the smallest of things (such as polishing her toenails) and prefers good value for money over unnecessarily expensive products. For a better picture, imagine a plastic/enhanced Instagram starlet, some examples:
https://www.instagram.com/daniela_nicolett/https://www.instagram.com/sarah_crowne_/https://www.instagram.com/jenpj86/https://www.instagram.com/valerochka_ponomareva_/- You live in a first world country, but not in some "stupidly expensive" place like New York, LA, Seattle, or Dubai, where the prices of many items and services are inflated.
Here's my attempt:
Clothing, shoes, accessories: 200 Euro per month
Make-up: 175 Euro per month (assuming rather heavy usage on a daily basis)
Various (self-care) products (from shampoo and toothpaste to skin creams and bath bombs): 125 euro per month
Various fillers: 100 Euro per month (1 200 per year in total, which is more than enough for 3-4ml of lipfillers and one or two injections in either the jaw, cheekbones, or chin)
Hair maintenance: 75 Euro per month
Acrylic nails at a salon: 75 Euro per month
Long facial treatment at a salon: 50 Euro per month
Tanning at a salon (or through products, alternatively): 30 Euro per month
Eyebrows at a salon: 30 Euro per month
Teeth bleaching: 30 Euro per month
Gym subscription: 30 Euro per month
False eyelashes, lenses: 25 Euro per month
[I would mention body hair removal as well (laser, waxing), but I think that using your own laser device at home is much more cost-efficient.]
That comes down to a total of 945 Euro per month. If we round this up to 1 000, the remaining 55 Euro can be spent on a category of her choice (a pair of high heels, a day at the spa, a pedicure, and so on). So my answer is 1 000 Euro per month. If you're American: feel free to exchange that to USD in your mind on a 1:1 basis. Even though 1 Euro is worth slightly more than 1 Dollar, prices for many products and services are quite a bit lower in the United States (barring some cities and regions).
Do you guys think that such a budget is accurate and sufficient? Feel free to share your own budgets, whether they're in similar vein to mine or tailored around your own tastes and preferences.
I'm particularly interested in input from female forum members, as they probably have a better general idea of the costs involved. In terms of self-care, can you imagine making do and being happy with such a budget?
I apologize if this thread is slightly off-topic, as silicone breasts are not the topic of discussion. However, as the text underneath the site's logo says, this forum is not only about breast implants. It's about enhanced beauty in general, and I felt that the "lifestyle" sub-forum would be suitable for a discussion concerning the monthly costs of maintaning an "enhanced" appearance. In any case -- thank you for reading this wall of text.