Perfect or Fake
Part of my new collection about things I wish to change.
Beauty Standards
The above image is basically what trigged this post. Apparently Dove started this new campaign calling for “real beauty” standards. Regardless of the reason or purpose behind its new campaign, but Dove certainly pushed the right button and the campaign is spreading vastly now.
Why every woman should have Catherine Zeta Jones’ face? Or Jessica Alba’s body?
Why every guy should be as fit as Brad Pitt or Matthew McConaughey?
Who is beautiful and who is not? Who says who is beautiful and who's not?
For some reason, every one wants to date a 3-sized girl. Beauty standards were never biased like today.
I took a look at granny’s face yesterday, she is 65. In my eyes there is no prettier woman on earth. She is a symbol of growing beauty. Well, ok she is not as sexy as Haifa in a vulgar point of view, but at least she’s the nature’s fruit of years and years of aging.
Suddenly all the women look the same to me.
Why a chubby girl or guy should live a life full of misery because the society put a standard of waist size which he or she does not measure up to?
Stupidity. Plain Stupidity.
I want to conclude my post with a part of lyrics I dearly love:
“Unforgettable
That’s what you are.
Unforgettable is every way.
And forever more, that’s how you will stay,”
Unforgettable by Nat King Cole
Labels: Changes
1:52 AM, February 07, 2007
You’re 100% right … cosmetic surgeries are molding ppl into a finite number of shapes .. this is most evident in newborn artists .. simple ppl and those who lack self-confidence want to look like them .. and many are deforming their natural beauty to match up to the standards set by commercial companies .. top
6:19 AM, February 07, 2007
our beauty in our in our minds, RnD.
If we need a career in bull shitting, then we should have a body like brad bit or whoever, and have a small brain, and no brain sometimes.
It is Hollywood. we live by its standards, but actually we do not have to live by its standard, beauty is in the eyes on the beholder. Beauty in our mind, how many times you see a beautiful (sexy) person, but when you talk to him/her you see an empty project of stupidness.
nice topic, I like your ideas, man
Salaam top
9:36 AM, February 08, 2007
@ Spears
Thanks for stopping by. I kinda was hoping that my first commentator would be a girl. I wanna ask you a question and every other girl who might be reading this: Do not you think that young girls (and sometimes mature) are participating in distorting the standards by coping fake standards and trying their best to look like movie and pop stars?
@ Dancing Solo
It's not about inner beauty here, I do agree that it should not matter. But let's face the truth, appearances do matters. I am not arguing whether they should or not. I am hoping for a change in terms of standards.
RnD top
10:33 AM, February 08, 2007
RnD, your topic has essentially opened a can of worms. Beauty standards today are defined primarily by the media and Hollywood in particular. Everyone wants to look at something that is visually appealing even though we all know it's thanks to Botox and airbrushing and photoshop that images look so damned good.
The saying, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" has virtually been rendered obsolete as really "contact lenses are in the eye of the beholder". Do you catch the drift?
The only thing we know factually is that beauty diminishes with time (though this is changing given revolutions in skin care). In any case - all that glitters is not gold. top
10:40 AM, February 08, 2007
Well well well, who have we here? the one and only Lady Layala or Noora (I am not sure which one is writing)...I am faltered that you took time to stop by and comment..after all its you guys..
And I got the drift...
If you visit http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.co.uk/ (Dove's UK website) you can watch a short clip titles "Revolution" it describe what you have just said..
RnD top
11:46 AM, February 09, 2007
beauty is money top
3:03 AM, February 10, 2007
for some reason , some people started putting standards of beauty, programmed our minds with it, and emptied our pockeys for a fake dream,
still we humans are weak to get over these standards :P top
8:13 PM, February 10, 2007
U know what, and i'm talking about external beauty now OK. As long as there are curves to slide on and handles to grab, the female body is beautiful. Large, small, skinny, full...beauty is to be rightly proportioned, yet natural. Now, a sweet smile will make you overlook a curve or two and go handless and never care, as long as it is from the heart.
Any sense? top
5:12 PM, February 11, 2007
@ Gray Fox & Abu Fares
Your contribution is always highly welcomed.
There was always the Beautiful and the Ugly, The word UGLY is not a new word invented by the Chinese.
My point was that nowadays, more people are considering what used to be beautiful, ugly.
I still remember the time when chubby, flabby and curvy actresses were the sensation of all time and symbols of Venus.
RnD top
2:36 AM, February 12, 2007
Sadly ... yes . some of them are participating in distorting the standards by coping fake standards. but let's not forget some men who want their women to look like stars.. and the circle goes on and on top
3:36 PM, February 17, 2007
Beauty hides in the deep... But not many people are willing to 'dig' deep and try to find it...
There's a nice song about it actually
16 Bit Lolitas pres. The Doppler Effect ft. Carol Lee Beauty Hides In The Deep
A part of it:
A little pearl
Locked in a shell
Can not explain
Each breath I’m taking
Can not find the means to an end
To move create one liberated moment
Beauty hides in the deep
Beauty hides in the deep
But it’s so hard to find
Being wrapped up inside top
1:14 PM, March 01, 2007
I think it is just tastes.
Each person have different taste, and today I see girls and guys who really doesn't mind chubbiness or whatever standard it is. What some guys consider bad thing in them selfs, like being bold, I know girls who really dig bold men! What some girls consider bad thing in them selfs like being little chubby, I know lot of guys who really like this! I'm not saying it is about inner beauty thing ... it is just tastes.
There are different scales of being chubby and different scales of being fit, and that varies from person to person.
And in TV, they market for one or more taste. top