Okay, there are going to be many that says, how can you be so cruel. This thread is not about MJ's personal life or about the 'why' he did it, this is about when he looked the best as an entertainer in your mind. I suggest you visit this site which lists some notes on the above dates:
https://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html
Note: We have no affiliation with the above link.
I have a friend who was in a real bad smash up he was in the hospital for almost 4-½ months most of his face was gone the hospital staff had to reconstruct a lot of his face from photos with the amount of plastic that he has in his face is unreal he also has restrictions as to weather conditions that his plastic face will stand [extreme cold NO] [extreme hot such as in T&T NO] so MJ did all this because he is in my eyes a very vein person or he is a brick short of a load as in not al there as to abuse his body that way i would think that he be told about the hot&cold weather and how much his face area will stand before it melts or cracks now that type of liveing is what tons of money and NO brains can get you he should have never started that crap he was a real good looking young man now he could pass for CASPER the ghost
Well I did mention in the first post that we should not try to analyze why he did it since we do not know him, but in regards to your point of view Max please remeber that he came from a very abusive home. Most of his friends say he is very childlike in his attitude towards life. Maybe he was not given chance to 'discover' who he really was?
As for the votes, it seems that most people like his earlier thriller/bad look.