beautiful illusions

[brightlotusmoon]

To expand on my previous post:
The real, sad secret of a cover girl
Voila.
I shall never look at a magazine ad, billboard, or poster of a model in the same way again. The video is startling, brutally honest, and disappointing... but it delivers an intense message: Beauty, true beauty, is who we are, not who we are made to be.

Comments

[lucid-phantasm.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for posting this.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[flyingshaman.livejournal.com]

I just had to watch this again and make sure it was the same one I'd seen before... this is so sick. That woman was so beautiful before they touched her, like she was a real human being you could have coffee with and talk with, and then they transform her to this otherly ethereal being who doesn't have feelings and only exists in our imagination.

Gar, advertising. Ugh. (Why must we make women be fantasies and not real people?)

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

...and yet, that ethereal being is "gorgeous and perfect and we should all be like that!"
Sigh.

[faire-damsel.livejournal.com]

That's Frightening. And Un~Utterably Sad!

[fyremoon.livejournal.com]

I want *that* software... Imagine what horrors I could do to my own image! I would make myself look more dragonlike ;)

True beauty is lost as soon as you reach for the blusher or foundation and start applying those layers to the facade called "beauty".

Modern beauty reminds me of Maskerade balls, people dance around with a mask on a pole, but instead of the pole the mask is attached to the skin.

Would the model recognise herself on that billboard? Look at their website and you can hover the mouse over the billboard photo to show the model underneath.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I do use concealer, but only to smooth out redness, blemishes, and undereye shadows. That way my natural beauty can still shine through. But no blush; I don't see the point.