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While this may seem like a gift, I would assume that it is more of an insult to those who are not like the MC.
The Face Tailor is secretive, expensive, and deadly to meet all thanks to the constables and the influence of secretive royalty. This wondrous treatment will only be available to a scant few who would want it, and the rest would be either ignorant or eternally unable of obtaining such necessary, such personally-completing an offering.