At what point do we decide that the world really has gone so mad that the majority say no more?
Apparently teenagers are asking for botox. And there's a dating site especially for "beautiful people" so that they can reduce the likelyhood of producing an asthetically imperfect child. Hitler must be cheering in his furnace. The perfect race.
Meanwhile, those of us who listened to our Grandmother's and have started to see the truth in "it's what's inside that counts", are beginning to sound quaint.
I've already resigned myself to being paraded in public as an example of what aging looks like because everyone around me will have had surgery, laser removals, implants and/or botox.
I have gone from being mistaken for my daughter's elder sister to my mother's younger sister. So what next? My daughter's generations' grandmother and great grandmother to teenagers?
Maybe I was born out of time, but I like to see the ordinance survey of a person's life on their face.
What is considered contemporarily beautiful changes. The Georgians poisoned themselves by caking on the lead-filled makeup to disguise the smallpox scars, so powdered white complections were fashionable. Rubens and Botticelli painted deliciously voluptuous women who were considered healthy, whereas we equate slimness with healthy eating and 'obesity' with bad eating habits so our catwalk models have been the extreme size zero. Skin tanning used to be a sign of peasants working out of doors so the English Rose complection was encouraged. Then deep brown skin represented the wealth needed to travel overseas to hotter countries. Now we are encouraged to frown to avoid the 'skin damaging' sun.
Well I'm waiting patiently for wrinkly faces to come back into fashion as a celebration that we have lived. I shan't hold my breath though because youth represents healthy and fertility in any community but
I'm not alone. Kaya Cheyanne is campaigining to Keep Beauty Real.
Well I'm waiting patiently for wrinkly faces to come back into fashion as a celebration that we have lived. I shan't hold my breath though because youth represents healthy and fertility in any community but
I'm not alone. Kaya Cheyanne is campaigining to Keep Beauty Real.
With any luck there will be a lot of examples of "what aging naturally looks like" and I won't be featured in the scientific text books of the future as a rarity, because one day, the world will wake up and say enough is enough.
What is important is a healthy body. Isn't it?
