The Evolution of Beauty.

Posted by Les on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 11:57 AM. Read 4348 times. Tags:
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The folks at The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty have put together a movie that’s a real eye opener on why our perceptions of what beauty is (in regards to women at least) are so screwed up.

It reminds me of when I was in my early 20’s and working as a copy jerk at a local Kinko’s. We had aspiring models come in all the time to get color copies made of their pictures and I was always amazed to discover they were models because when they’re not wearing makeup and professionally done hairstyles they tend to look kinda average. They weren’t unattractive people, but they weren’t OMFGLOOKITHERSHESGORGEOUS types either, but their pictures certainly were and back then it was mostly makeup and airbrushing that made it happen. Toss in today’s advanced makeup techniques and digital photo manipulation and it’s a whole other world.

Watch the following movie and marvel as a rather plain looking woman with facial blemishes is transformed into a stunning representation of feminine beauty that doesn’t exist in reality…

And we wonder why so many women have self-image problems.

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Consigliere United States Posted on 10/20/2006 at 07:03 PM

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I have always tried to find the beauty within.

Beauty within is great if it’s not buried under fat. 

I view this topic like “building self-esteem” in schools by passing those who should’ve flunked.

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To die one’s self is a thing that must be easy, & light of consequence; but to lose a part of one’s self--well, we know how deep that pang goes, we who have suffered that disaster, received that wound which cannot heal.
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LuckyJohn19 Australia Posted on 10/21/2006 at 05:19 AM

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Beauty within is great if it’s not buried under fat. 

Beauty is only skin deep; ugly is to the bone.  smile

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I’ve discovered that it all boils down to brain wiring: your brain is wired to worship magic or it isn’t, either it’s wired to utilize logic or it isn’t, either it’s analytical of myths or it isn’t.

Raavea Great Britain (UK) Posted on 10/21/2006 at 02:17 PM

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I’ve included a URL with this post. Just one example of what I percieve as beauty.

I grew up in a family below the ‘poverty line’ where the house was packed with people - we were bikers and freaks and hippies, and I practically grew up in a commune. I’ve always known that beauty is not what the general population seem to think.

And as a young girl, I never gave a damn about my appearance. I like knowledge, and I like real women.

Anyone here see the dove adverts a long time ago with real women in white undies? (I haven’t had a TV for years, so it must have been a long time ago..) Wasn’t the black one with the big hips and boobs gorgeous? The old lady with the smile lines around her eyes?

Beauty used to be about that within, but commerciality seems to be programming the next generation out of the instinctive senses. Constantly bombarded by advertising, subliminals, and fakeness - how do you expect your kids to grow up?

Both myself and my friend (I am a lesbian, and he is gay) are in long-term relationships, but if we ever decide to breed, we’ve agreed (having grown up together) to bring our kids up at home, with home schooling, and teaching them right.

The question is.. Will even that be enough?

AntiCrank United States Posted on 10/21/2006 at 02:47 PM

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My dick is hiding right now because it thinks there is going to be a fight.  Paris Hilton makes me want to punch something.  And I am not a violent person.

Well she makes me want to gag.

I want someone with the body of Lindsay Lohan (ooh, nice great boobs and lucious figure) and the wit of Margareth Thatcher and the ambition of Demi Moore

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