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==Daria and the Makeover Issue in Canon==
The idea that Daria is'needs physicallywork' unattractiveto andmeet "needsconventional work"beauty standards is commonlybrought up by seencharacters in canonseveral episodes. It appears most explicitly in "[[Too Cute]]" ([[Dr. Shar]]'s offeroffering to make her look like Quinn and a guy considering her an "emergency" offor cosmeticplastic surgerysurgey), "[[I Don't]]" (the bridesmaid's dress fitting), "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]" (Daria's conversation with [[Quinn]]), and "[[I Loathe a Parade]]" (attempted makeover by [[the Fashion Club]]). Daria's own ideas of what constitutes a makeover are simple in comparison (pink lipstick in "[[Road WorrierQuinn]]" andtakes athe belly-button piercingview: in "[[PierceThrough Mea Lens Darkly]]"). Her bathroom cabinet at home contains no cosmetics, onlyshe heroffers toothbrush,to per [[The Daria Database]],"help" and herasks closet is sometimes shown in MTV artwork as having only extra boots, green jackets, black skirts, etc. Daria"when did giveyou herselffirst abegin briefto Quinn-ishsuspect makeoverthat atyour theoutfit endsucked?" ofIn "[[Quinnall the Brain]]cases," butthese onlycharacters asare a meansantagonists to anbe end;disliked theand makeoverlaughed wasat. swiftly dumped afterward.
 
In "Lens Darkly", [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] pushes for Daria to have contacts instead of glasses out of the belief this will improve her social life ("instead of seeing your glasses and jumping to some moronic conclusion based on ridiculous stereotypes and their own ignorance"). When Daria does wear contacts, everal other characters respond positively but see it as a sign of Daria conforming rather than her looks.
Daria's canon attitude about her attractiveness is ambivalent. In [[Is It Fall Yet?]] she makes it clear to her mother that she wants to avoid others, but in "[[Quinn the Brain]]" Daria merely discards her glasses and dons one of Quinn's pink tees in order to successfully freak Quinn out. In other words, she knows she could look better if she tried, but she won't try. Still, she goes after [[Tom Sloane]] without changing any aspect of her persona, for better or worse.
 
Daria's own ideas of what constitutes a makeover are simple in comparison (pink lipstick in "[[Road Worrier]]" and a belly-button piercing in "[[Pierce Me]]"). Her bathroom cabinet at home contains no cosmetics, only her toothbrush, per [[The Daria Database]], and her closet is sometimes shown in MTV artwork as having only extra boots, green jackets, black skirts, etc. Daria did give herself a brief Quinn-ish makeover at the end of "[[Quinn the Brain]]", showing that she could dress this way if she tried, but it's only as a means to an end; the makeover was swiftly dumped afterward. Her greatest act of wardrobe change was to simply wear contacts in "Lens Darkly".
 
Daria's canon attitude about her looks has only come up once or twice. She puts on minor lipstick in "Road Worrier" to get Trent to notice her, implying she felt she had to, but she didn't want Jane to realise. In "Lens Darkly", we get a full episode on the subject. Here, Daria does briefly think (after a comment from Trent) that she might look better with contact lenses than glasses, but spends most of the episode worried that by wearing contacts, she's showing "sheer vanity" and a concern about how other people see her: both things she doesn't want to believe she's interested in, and indeed ''rejects'' the idea of how other people see her by the end of it. Basically, she could dress differently and have makeovers, but "to hell with them and what they think of you and your glasses."
 
==Makeovers and Other Characters==
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