Every time we turn on the television we see anti wrinkle creams, diets, fashion shows with models with impossible bodies, hair treatments, and that, little by little, is installed in our brain. They do not show us the reality: that wrinkles at a certain age are inevitable, that when we grow we get stretch marks and cellulite, that we have one breast bigger than another, that women can be as bare as men ...
And then we try to resemble those ideals that have sold us massively, and instead of seeing strangers those bodies passed by hundreds of advisors and operations, we see ours as rare.
How dangerous it is to spend more hours in front of the TV, than on the street, you don't know how much they can deceive us
The truth that millions of companies would die since today society is very marked by the appearance and physical appearance of the person, we live in a materialistic society and where the person who sees herself as ugly is a person excluded from society.
Advertising companies for beauty products have succeeded in imprinting the message from TV's like you mentioned, that we need to look a certain way. This has extended so far that when you walk down the street, you judge people based on these features, and if they're not like on TV, then they are not considered beautiful by the majority. We then make decisions on ourselves, based on what we see - whether that's buying that wrinkle cream, or trying that new diet. The only way to stop this, is to remove a cultures standard of beauty, which is only posible by removing all adverts like you said. But whether we would stop comparing ourselves to the people we see is uncertain.
One positive about beauty companies, in my opinion, is the variation of inspiration. There are good forms of beauty advertising (typically the smaller brands or those which promote individuality), such as global companies which introduce us to new ideas of beauty.
Plus if all people in a certain place had no beauty inspiration from foreign or alternative companies, would we all try and look to each other for tips/guidance, therefore end up looking the same anyway?
Yes and those superficial ideals change with the Zeitgeist. But the companies of which you speak would not fail: they would adapt to whatever the new Zeitgeist demanded. As Heraclitus foresaw, we never step into the same river twice.
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