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I especially like the part where the first girl to get this treatment reaches for her razor to shave her legs and armpits as usual, only to realize her body doesn't need shaving anymore. I think I like it because of the way the woman - whose beauty is usually the product of great effort like hair, make-up, grooming, dieting, exercise and generally trying to stay young - instead becomes beautiful as the natural state, and gets a lot of levereage against "normal" women in the competition for men.
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of this type of transformation -- in addition to permanent body hair removal, I love the idea of permanent makeup, although it doesn't seem to be mentioned in that particular story (and to clarify, I mean magically-applied makeup, not the tattooed-on version that's available in "real life")...
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It's a bit like this story (which I may or may not have posted before), where the protagonist's enhancements become irreversable after a while - for instance if you'd cut her hair, it would just grow back to it's original enhanced length. If you'd force-feed her 100 hamburgers, her waist would just shrink back to its thin state. (Those particular things don't actually happen in the story, but I wanna explain my point without spoiling too much.)
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...and I'm
also a big fan of a woman being cursed to always wear sexy, revealing clothes, to the extent that clothing magically transforms when she puts it on.
Along vaguely similar lines to "An American in Hell," another story on the BEArchive that involves beautification and that type of clothing curse is "
Wish Upon a Starr" -- although you may want to look elsewhere to see if you can find a version with capital letters in it.