Things like wearing contacts and dying the hair are an attempt to conceal genetics

[Mister Obvious]

. . . they’re trying to broadcast that they have no defects in their senses and are therefore quality breeding material.

This the reason for what we many times hear referred to as “letting oneself go”...

After successful reproduction, people (especially women) often cease their attempts to cover up the ‘faulty’ genetics. They stop coloring their hair, maybe they start wearing glasses, maybe they get all fat and nasty.

Well it’s because they accomplished their mission of reproduction, and with the welfare state that has been feeding single moms and their kids for decades, the women have no reason to upkeep their trickery rituals in order to secure resources for their offspring.

This is why, often, men will continue their entire lives with their particular trickery rituals... because men can always reproduce regardless of age etc. This is one of the reasons it’s perceived that men “age better” than women.

The solution to all of this is to never start on the path of trickery in the first place. Don’t conceal your genetic defects. You’ll be innocent of misleading anyone. You may never reproduce, but at least you didn’t live a lie.