Comments on: The Evolution of Beauty

By: mellimel

mellimel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:06:48 +0000

Dippity Do! I’d forgotten about it. I ironed my bangs(burning my forehead), used Dippity Do and products designed to straighten African American hair in an effort to have hair that would swing and move. I’d like to say I have risen above it but I am not going to lie. I have recently been looking in the mirror, holding my skin back to see how I might lift it (the jowls and the downward smile they make on my face) – up!

By: christie

christie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:19:39 +0000

I recently attended a 40th reunion. I was not nervous until I got there. Some people looked so different it was hard to concentrate while speaking with them. Others looked like more comfortable versions of their earlier selves. Someone commented to me “My word, you are aging really well.” Thank you! That’s exactly what I want to do, age, but look well and feel well. No eternal youth trips for me, it’s too aging.

By: Barb G.

Barb G. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:43:53 +0000

“In the day” a beautiful bronze tan created by baking in the sun slathered with baby oil laced with iodine and long, straight hair were the signs of beauty. So, I baked and straightened my wild kinky hair. Today, age spots, skin damage and short, kinky hair. Would I do it again…yep!

By: tim

tim — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:11:41 +0000

dear pru: you are prettier than she is, and it hardly takes any makeup at all. signed, your 55 year old man who has nothing left to comb over.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:54:06 +0000

WOW!! My head is spinning! Even the beautiful models don’t even measure up to the “ideal beauty”. Thanks for doing us a service and showing us this short visual. It helps to keep us grounded, to see the false manipulation of images that feed off of our insecurities & promote a false belief in just one kind of beauty, on idealized face one particular image is the only desirable one. We are all so beautiful- so unique and we need to keep that message out there as Madison Ave is working harder promoting the unattainable idealized beauty to the detriment of us all- men & women all suffer with the false & phony look of beauty.
GO PRU~ “If it could have happened any other way, it would have”. Thanks for the quote. The story of my life. It should be on my tombstone – if I wasn’t donating my body to science.

By: dearpru

dearpru — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:38:27 +0000

Erica, you are so right. It’s not just young women who need this message…it’s young men, old men and middle-aged men. We all laugh about the 54-year-old guy with a comb-over who writes on match.com that he is looking for his soul-mate, 18 – 35, slender and attractive…and air-brushed. We all have to get real. America’s obsession with mixing marketing with mating just isn’t working. It’s produced serial generations of bulimics, narcissists, diet-pill poppers, cosmetic-surgery junkies, shopaholics and plain old shallow bitches. What is it going to take to get us off this false image cycle? (Please don’t say religion!)

By: Carine

Carine — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:55:42 +0000

I’ve been stressed lately and boy does it show on my 53-year-old face. I was in a department store today, and damn, do they have a lot of mirrors! Every time I caught a glimpse of myself I thought, Oh boy… This video is obviously here to give me hope that all I have to do is get myself a LOT of money and I, too, will be able to stop aging with a snap of my fingers! Take that, stress!