If your nails are dirty (male or female) or you have black bits in your teeth, no one is going to take you seriously.

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That means no tattooing a boxer's nose to make it more black, no braces for a pointer to straighten its teeth, no removing a basset hound's inner eyelid to improve its appearance.

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