A couple of days ago there was an article in the papers about airbrushing cover photographs of magazines to make the models look thinner/taller with flawless skin and hair. This created a furore among parents of young girls going on crash diets and advanced cosmetic procedures in an effort to look like the models. The pictures weren't "natural" enough.
Women wearing make-up aren't "naturally" beautiful and hence aren't beautiful at all.
Men or women with plastic surgeries/implants weren't "naturally" like that and so shouldn't be given any respect.
I told somebody I knew a really pretty woman entrepreneur who owns a chain of beauty salons all over the city and she was immediately judged to be "only pretty because she probably spends hours and hours in her salons getting beauty treatments."
The people who say all this are the people who get their hands and legs waxed and their eyebrows shaped. They get haircuts at "expert" salons, painstakingly sift through dozens of clothes at malls and don't settle for anything but the best. They use lotions, beauty toiletries and tons of hair products and pay a lot of money on looking good to keep themselves looking bright and shiny. I refuse to believe any of this being any more natural than say, getting a plastic surgery. How can one be so obviously hypocritical and yet have the conviction to feel superior when they get to know some celebrity's boobs weren't naturally that big?
Still, they change channels when somebody ugly pops up on their TV screens even if it is regarding something completely unrelated to looks. They all want "pleasant looking" newsreaders. They want to see anorexic women and bulging muscular male models selling them things. They wrinkle their noses in disgust when they find a Madonna shopping without makeup.
It seems they want people to be born twenty, with the skin of a baby, the measurements of Barbie (and something equally impossible in the male section, Ken?), with perfect hair, a face looking "naturally" very beautiful and stay looking twenty forever. I suspect there are already people who come close to being this perfect, but are still not acknowledged because they're all probably "only like that because they spend hours and hours at beauty salons, getting beautiful".*
Yes, they say that whilst they get their eyebrows plucked and arms waxed.
Isn't it the point? They only clean up the cover photographs because YOU like them like that. You want them to look like that. You don't want podgy (or healthy) women showing off some pimples wearing "only moisturizer" on the cover of your magazine. Your moronic children will very obviously try to be like the people you call "hot". Bad parenting turns children into self destructing anorexics, not magazine covers.
How is a plastic surgery any different from braces or nail polish or hair gel? Why should somebody who takes external help to look good be treated with condescension when you have done the same, albeit in a cheaper or simpler way? Except for the money involved, make-up is the same to me as good clothes.
Some very skewed perception of what's natural there.
*Like you can become beautiful by just going to a salon. Or by wearing make up. In case you didn't get it.
9 years ago
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