
Regarding my below post, the one with Robin Rice’s video on Beauty - a friend found this image for me on Jezebel.com (love the name). If you click you’ll see 2 images of Faith Hill on a major magazine cover. The first, is the one you’re used to seeing on the stands - ya know the perfectly buffed and shaved “I am filled with plastic, Desperate Housewives and Lean Cuisine” one. The second, is the real photo, before the airbrushing.
Personally, I think the real image is much more bautiful - hell, the woman looks like she earned those smile lines and crow’s feet and freckles and healthy flesh - by living. How dare she. And even though the technique used on these magazine covers is called airbrushing, me thinks they should call it something else, like soulsquishing, or lifesucking, or “Jesus with a spackle of Maybelline foundation, I so have no idea what true beauty is, again, for like one more month of existence, now where’s the Zoloft”. Or something.
You know when I was in fifth grade I wrote a story about a girl who was given one wish from some frisky faerie-type elemental, and her wish was that people would turn inside out. No, not so their organs and veins and adipose tissues were hangin’ out all “eeew” like, but so their inner spirit would be appropriately reflected by their external carriage. Ah, the whims of the young.
So what do you do to let your true beauty shine? What could you be doing to shine it better?