To some people, long is better than short.

TikToker Celine Keely of Chicago, United States, posted a video of her experience in using the drug Olumiant, also known as baricitinib. The medicine is slowly fulfilling her hopes of restoring her long hair, which she lost due to alopecia.

Alopecia sufferers lose clumps of hair when their immune system attacks their own hair follicles. According to the US Food and Drug Administration, Olumiant blocks the activity of a family of enzymes that inflames the immune system's attack on hair follicles and causes it to fall off, New York Post reported.

Keely does book reviews on TikTok and appears wearing a wig of long hair. In one of her videos, she shows the weekly hair growth for two months while taking the new drug, the New York Post reported.
From bald, her head now shows a thin layer of growing hair. The video quickly went viral, getting 770,000 views as Keely's successful treatment gives other alopecia-afflicted people hope for recovery and restored self-confidence.

TikTok vlogger Athena, meanwhile, prefers it short particularly for parts of her feet that she considered ugly.

Athena tried to treat the defect through cosmetic surgery. Last month, she underwent a procedure in Miami, Florida, US.

"My toes were a big insecurity for me, especially when I wore heels," Athena told NYP, referring to her long and crooked toes. "It wasn't cute, so I found the solution and took the chance."

Athena posted the result of the toe-shortening operation on 6 December but the not so "pho-toe-genic" pictures of her feet earned merciless mocks from commenters, NYP said.

With Athena's shortened toes still swollen after its joints were resectioned or its bones fused, one commenter's description of her feet opened the floodgates for more ridicules.

"Now you got Gremlin feet," the commenter posted, referring to the mischievous pets with claw feet.

Other insulting descriptions were "cavemen feet" and "ravenclaw."

"YABBA DABBA DOOO!" a fourth troll mocked, claiming Athena's feet looked like they were from The Flintstones cartoon, NYP reported.