Fotoshop by Adobé

So funny yet so true

Link goes to a video on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/34813864

Quote :

This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty.

Aaaa-doe-bay

well ....
i have never been one to wear a lot of make-up, if i had
a choice ... but when i was out working with the public, i did ...
and i fussed with my hair (color / perm / etc) and i wore
uncomfortable shoes (cuz they made calves look good) and
foundation garments that pinched and stupid hosiery w/ garters,
then pantyhose ... i have used wax on various parts of body (ouch)
and it did seem for a time that what my mother said might
be "true": you have to suffer to be beautiful (???) and i viewed
"perfection" in the media with a sigh, knowing i could never
come close ...
***
that being said ...
***
i would never have tried so hard if men didn't respond the way
they did ... the whole notion of it's your inside beauty that counts
sounds/sounded good but i knew it was a lie ... so if western
women are brainwashed, it is in part due to men
***
what a relief to be older now and NOT GIVE A SHIT

what a relief to be older now and NOT GIVE A SHIT



so true.

As women, I think we all go through this stage, but I still haven't figured out why?? It must be a genetic thingy, to do so to attract the opposite sex.

Have you noticed that men's attire never piches or binds, or that they go through as much effort as a woman?

As I've grown older, I feel exactly the same, I don't give a toss either. People take me for what I am, or don't take me at all. Now my inner self has been preened and primed, I know now what I radiate is the real me and not something others want me to be.

Add me to the basket in not giving a toss hippy and skywatcher

removed a bunch of too personal info..reason for edit..not speelin this time..lol

well i never did any of it..except when forced...

the benefits of age are many but being released from what others think you ought to look like
nope ain't gonna happen

the hair issues have returned with
why are you letting yourself look old with that silver hair....
hahahahahahahahahah

we won't go into the rest of it...don't want any of you to dye laughing



i am so glad i have never given a flyin leap about others opinions and stuff
and really
not all women buy into it and men have "other" interests hahahahahahahahahahah

ain't life a ride

I went through my own beauty phase, had to be beautiful, everyday, it was like a full time job when I was a dancer in Las Vegas, back in the [ehem] late '80's, the vision of beauty was hard pressure, beauty = value. The beauty was in the eye of the beholder and the only way was tricks, make-up tricks, hair tricks, ILLUSION of beauty of which part was attitude.

Back then, the competition was not only stiff, it was brutal and sometimes viscous. Every night I had to face my baby child and ask myself, is this the direction we want to go in? This is the same child that thought I was beautiful all the time.

I got out in time, many don't. Thank you, son.