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What Not To Wear is a Virgoan wet dream I think because it combines two elements often so beloved of Virgos (and people with Virgo Ascendants, ahem): self-improvement and practicality/usefulness. Even their site is practical as it offers style advice relating to body shapes etc.
Although I occasionally cringe at thier slightly confrontational style (and the fact that they chuck away loads of people's possessions, Cancer really quakes at that) I love Trinny and Susannah and thier work. What I love most about it is that they are essentially so pragmatic, so useful. They don't send people on these mad regimes to transform thier body shapes instead they work with the bodies that people have and help them look better in a highly realistic way. They work with a person to find something that is right for them and my GOD it's amazing. The women they work with are not small or conventionally pretty, which is why I adore the program. It's very much about humans and flaws and oh dear lord they are magicians. The changes in people are unbelievable. E.g. a woman who wore nothing but football shirts and terrible jeans and had orange hair and looked to me like a particularly unattractive dyke (and I know lots of cute dykes, so I know it's not compulsory). Frankly I was stunned that she was heterosexual and wanted to go out and meet men because the vibe she gave out was pretty asexual, and extremely impressed at her transformation into this where I think she's very pretty.
And I love clothes and I love shoes and I love transforming people, I love bringing out the potential of people. In the best of all possible worlds I'd be a hairdresser and a shoe/clothes designer who was a psychotherapist and an astrologer and Tarot reader and a writer and I'd do all that at least semi-professionally. So many interests, so little time, so much beauty that can be expressed in the world and so much in me that burns and begs to be created.
Sometimes I half-wish I could bust my head open just so all the visions trapped there could spill out across the world and be made manifest.
I do analyse and pick apart and I do notice people's clothes a lot, and I very often cringe because very often people don't seem to have a good eye for clothes, and for what suits them.
I'm not a fashionista, and nor do I dress up every day but I think I do have a pretty good eye for what suits me and what doesn't and I also find it fairly easy to see what suits other people.
Of course it is all superficial, and I'd be the first to admit I have a vain and shallow streak (euphemistically dubbed *a feeling for beauty*) and it does give me such a profound pleasure to be able to help someone feel good about themselves, feel sexy and attractive (without looking cheap). Literally it makes me glow with pleasure.
The emphasis here of course is on people who need and want that help, I avoid the trap of badgering the general population unless it happens to be my mother. Occasionally I toy with the idea that I never outgrew my Barbie Doll phase, and that's why I enjoy playing dress-up with people although I've managed to move past the urges to chop their hair or draw on thier faces with crayons.
Although I occasionally cringe at thier slightly confrontational style (and the fact that they chuck away loads of people's possessions, Cancer really quakes at that) I love Trinny and Susannah and thier work. What I love most about it is that they are essentially so pragmatic, so useful. They don't send people on these mad regimes to transform thier body shapes instead they work with the bodies that people have and help them look better in a highly realistic way. They work with a person to find something that is right for them and my GOD it's amazing. The women they work with are not small or conventionally pretty, which is why I adore the program. It's very much about humans and flaws and oh dear lord they are magicians. The changes in people are unbelievable. E.g. a woman who wore nothing but football shirts and terrible jeans and had orange hair and looked to me like a particularly unattractive dyke (and I know lots of cute dykes, so I know it's not compulsory). Frankly I was stunned that she was heterosexual and wanted to go out and meet men because the vibe she gave out was pretty asexual, and extremely impressed at her transformation into this where I think she's very pretty.
And I love clothes and I love shoes and I love transforming people, I love bringing out the potential of people. In the best of all possible worlds I'd be a hairdresser and a shoe/clothes designer who was a psychotherapist and an astrologer and Tarot reader and a writer and I'd do all that at least semi-professionally. So many interests, so little time, so much beauty that can be expressed in the world and so much in me that burns and begs to be created.
Sometimes I half-wish I could bust my head open just so all the visions trapped there could spill out across the world and be made manifest.
I do analyse and pick apart and I do notice people's clothes a lot, and I very often cringe because very often people don't seem to have a good eye for clothes, and for what suits them.
I'm not a fashionista, and nor do I dress up every day but I think I do have a pretty good eye for what suits me and what doesn't and I also find it fairly easy to see what suits other people.
Of course it is all superficial, and I'd be the first to admit I have a vain and shallow streak (euphemistically dubbed *a feeling for beauty*) and it does give me such a profound pleasure to be able to help someone feel good about themselves, feel sexy and attractive (without looking cheap). Literally it makes me glow with pleasure.
The emphasis here of course is on people who need and want that help, I avoid the trap of badgering the general population unless it happens to be my mother. Occasionally I toy with the idea that I never outgrew my Barbie Doll phase, and that's why I enjoy playing dress-up with people although I've managed to move past the urges to chop their hair or draw on thier faces with crayons.