While we're all well aware of the health nightmares cancer sticks can cause, the toll it takes on your looks (besides giving you a yellow smile) are a little less talked about.
Enter BuzzFeed and their latest transformation video.
Three smokers were given a reality-check makeover. Watch their pro makeup artist showing the subjects (and us) how smoking could age them in 30 years:
From lip lines to deep wrinkles, sagging and staining, it ain't pretty. At all.
"I'm so old!" one woman says to her own reflection. "If this is what my outside appearance looks like… I can't even imagine what my insides look like." Exactly.
So sayonara cigs. We'd rather keep our lungs and our looks.
Bridget March is the Multiplatform Beauty Birector at Harper’s Bazaar, overseeing all beauty and wellbeing content on the UK website and YouTube channel.
From news and interviews to tutorials and treatment reviews, she answers the beauty questions you’re searching for with expert advice (see the renowned #SkinSchool franchise for evidence), taking deep dives into the latest trends (from polynucleotides to Profhilo), and sharing the products A-listers really use (via the ‘Inside my beauty bag’ video series).
Bridget has written for various brands within the Hearst portfolio and beyond, and was formerly Digital Beauty Editor at Cosmopolitan. She lives with her husband and two sons (plus a baby on the way!) in the Cotswolds.
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