Skin-Deep is not a Standard for Beauty
I have always stressed to myself that who you are inside is more important than what you look like. We are assailed daily by doctored photos of women who are in no way realistic. We are made to believe that those tiny, nipped-in waists, those sharp angled faces are supposedly the standard of beauty. If you look anything else like that, you are not considered beautiful. But what about a winning charm? A big laugh and a great sense of humour? Why doesn't anybody consider them standards for beauty? What's a pretty face then, if you don't have a great personality to bring it to life?
I only bring this up because I stumbled upon an article on Yahoo!News today. This girl was going to undergo surgery to make her look like Jessica Alba, her boyfriend's favourite actress.
A Chinese woman is so keen to win back her ex-boyfriend she plans to undergo plastic surgery to transform herself into his favourite actress: Hollywood star Jessica Alba.
The woman, who works for a web firm, described to the newspaper how her Alba-obsessed 28-year-old ex-boyfriend hung photos of the actress on his walls and stored her image on his mobile phone.
The man demanded Xiaoqing (her name) do her make-up as Alba does, even when she slept, and gave her a blonde wig for Christmas, which he asked her to wear all the time.
I think it's disgusting. Why the hell would you do that to yourself, just to get a man to stay? He obviously doesn't love her for who she is, he just wants somebody he can dress up like Jessica Alba.
You'd think this rant would get better, but it doesn't.
She told the newspaper they broke up last month when she threw her wig and fake eyelashes to the ground after passers-by laughed at her.
But afterwards, she said she reconsidered.
"I love him very much.... That's why I always followed his opinions. I don't want to lose him," the newspaper quoted her as saying.
To that I say, I certainly hope she discovers soon enough that he is NEVER going to be happy with what she does because he will always want more out of her than she can give. He's going to leave her, just wait and see.
~doublesharp
Read full article here.
I only bring this up because I stumbled upon an article on Yahoo!News today. This girl was going to undergo surgery to make her look like Jessica Alba, her boyfriend's favourite actress.
A Chinese woman is so keen to win back her ex-boyfriend she plans to undergo plastic surgery to transform herself into his favourite actress: Hollywood star Jessica Alba.
The woman, who works for a web firm, described to the newspaper how her Alba-obsessed 28-year-old ex-boyfriend hung photos of the actress on his walls and stored her image on his mobile phone.
The man demanded Xiaoqing (her name) do her make-up as Alba does, even when she slept, and gave her a blonde wig for Christmas, which he asked her to wear all the time.
I think it's disgusting. Why the hell would you do that to yourself, just to get a man to stay? He obviously doesn't love her for who she is, he just wants somebody he can dress up like Jessica Alba.
You'd think this rant would get better, but it doesn't.
She told the newspaper they broke up last month when she threw her wig and fake eyelashes to the ground after passers-by laughed at her.
But afterwards, she said she reconsidered.
"I love him very much.... That's why I always followed his opinions. I don't want to lose him," the newspaper quoted her as saying.
To that I say, I certainly hope she discovers soon enough that he is NEVER going to be happy with what she does because he will always want more out of her than she can give. He's going to leave her, just wait and see.
~doublesharp
Read full article here.