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sstormwatch

What is beauty?

Aug 18, 2008 00:17

And now, a dose of the reality of what some women have to live with... and yet, they survive, and grow stronger for overcoming what was done to them.

It is hard to read about, but please, read it.

Burned beauticians show beauty from within

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Comments 8

decembertyger August 18 2008, 07:26:17 UTC

wow did you look at those photos too! A culture where men torcher women with melted skin for too small a dowry is frightening!

sstormwatch August 19 2008, 06:39:26 UTC

Yes, I did. They are burned into my memory now.

isabelladangelo August 18 2008, 11:27:38 UTC

Thank you for sharing the article.

sstormwatch August 19 2008, 06:39:37 UTC

Thank you for reading it.

dravon August 18 2008, 19:53:33 UTC

You're right, that was hard to read, but an excellent article. Makes we want to do something to help. Thank you.

sstormwatch August 19 2008, 06:40:16 UTC

You are welcome. And yeah, I want to help somehow, other than stomping over there and hurting their men, which probably won't help.

docryder August 18 2008, 20:03:13 UTC

And ironically, when I viewed the article, their was a flash ad at the bottom pushing some beauty creme that's "better than Botox" with a woman whose face has been artificially aged with Photoshop "miraculously" loosing 50 years of aging. Advertising with random links always leads to tasteless things like this...

The beauticians are pretty amazing. We never consider how much of our self-image is tied up in our faces until something like this happens (or you read about it happening to someone else). And this is also part of the reason I hated the "burn victim" Nos in the Cam. It was something I found a pretty insensitive commentary on those who had been injured in such a way.

sstormwatch August 19 2008, 06:43:59 UTC

Your comment is rather insightful.

And yeah, there was this ad on tv last night as I was reading this, and they were promoting their anti-aging stuff (or whatever beauty snake oil it was) by saying something like "and it was given to the stars at a famous movie festival"... oh, wow, I so have to have it since it was "GIVEN AWAY" as a promo to some stars. Not like they actually use it, or there are scientific results on how it improves anything, just that it was given away. {head/hand}.