Me and many of my female friends who are approaching thirty, hovering over it, or are in the midst of their third decade have unintentionally but collectively started a silent campaign against young famous women who, seemingly out of the blue, have turned back the clock on their face. These actrices, socialites or otherwise, get in front of the camera with an unusually plump pout, a wide eyed glance in their overly made-up eyes and no laugh wrinkle in sight. Our primary bitch slap is saying that in their attempt to freshen things up those poor insecure darlings are left with a no-trace-face that has taken years of off their appearance but through it’s severity actually makes them look twice as old.
It is easy to criticize this “desperate” aim to look younger that should fool the crowd (but not us!) and to celebrate “naturality”. But when it comes to that, how natural are we all anyway?
I’m not advocating the popular argument that in the immediate disapproval of cosmetic surgery by my friends and myself there hides a certain hypocrisy that says: “Who in the end decides the difference between lipstick and liposuction?” Who’s against the latter, should also disapprove of the former, claims this approach. Because this is what’s wrong with that and simultaneously what I fear is true: Beauty is not a principle. It is a practice.Me and many of my female friends who are approaching thirty, hovering over it, or are in the midst of their third decade have unintentionally but collectively started a silent campaign against young famous women who, seemingly out of the blue, have turned back the clock on their face. These actrices, socialites or otherwise, get in front of the camera with an unusually plump pout, a wide eyed glance in their overly made-up eyes and no laugh wrinkle in sight. Our primary bitch slap is saying that in their attempt to freshen things up those poor insecure darlings are left with a no-trace-face that has taken years of off their appearance but through it’s severity actually makes them look twice as old.
It is easy to criticize this “desperate” aim to look younger that should fool the crowd (but not us!) and to celebrate “naturality”. But when it comes to that, how natural are we all anyway?
I’m not advocating the popular argument that in the immediate disapproval of cosmetic surgery by my friends and myself there hides a certain hypocrisy that says: “Who in the end decides the difference between lipstick and liposuction?” Who’s against the latter, should also disapprove of the former, claims this approach. Because this is what’s wrong with that and simultaneously what I fear is true: Beauty is not a principle. It is a practice.