How important is looking good to you? Would you dip into your savings to keep up your weekly mani/pedis? Would you get a second job to maintain your monthly highlights? How about stripping to finance a boob job?

It sounds crazy, but there are plenty of women out there who would go to extreme measures to maintain their beauty regimens and keep buying their favorite products. Don't believe me? Check out these stories below, they're all true and all shocking. Suddenly cruising for couch-cushion change to buy that lipgloss doesn't sound as nuts …

Which came first, the stripper or the boob job?

Dr. Nina Naidu, a New York-based plastic surgeon, shares a story of one client who wanted larger breasts: to afford the surgery, she used a financing company to pay the doctor upfront. Post-surgery, she began exotic dancing to repay the financing company. I guess that's one way to get a boob job to pay for itself.

Au revoir Paris, bonjour firmer skin

Check out this story of a woman who traded in her two-week European vacation to pay for five laser rejuvenation treatments. Because who cares about seeing the Eiffel Tower when you've got freshly lasered skin?

But does it have streamers and a bell?

This woman gave up driving her car and instead rides her bike everywhere she goes. What does she buy with the money saved on gas? Pedicures, of course.

Click here for four more insane stories of the lengths women will go for beauty.

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