Sometimes women take to too far with the makeup resorting to plastic surgery... like Heidi Montag.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Too Much Makeup
At one time wearing makeup was about rituals and accentuating your features, however, today especially in the celebrity world, makeup has become a fact of life and a means to transform your image. In our society today particularly for the celebrities people make a BIG DEAL when they see celebrities without make up. I think makeup’s initial intention was for people to enhance and highlight their beauty. But now more and more people are using makeup as a means to change their appearance and use makeup as a mask.
When you look at pictures of celebrities with and without makeup you would be surprised to see that most of them actually look just like the rest of people in society. Celebrities just have more resources to create their image.
Makeup has caused our society to create an image of what is beautiful when in the real scheme of things that image is entirely unrealistic. Take for example the show Toddlers in Tiaras, the mom’s heavily apply makeup to young girls faces and bleach their teeth because they believe that is what is seen as beautiful in our society.
One of the main reasons our society views these superficial looks as beautiful is because of objects. Take for example Barbie’s. Barbie’s convey this image of a woman that we see as perfect and attractive, however, their bodies and looks are completely unrealistic. This is what a real woman would look like with barbie's dimensions.
Ali Lohan is following in her sister's footsteps with the image obsession. As a young teenager and a wild sister to look up to it's no wonder Ali has all of a sudden begun to revamp her look. Yet she does this in a superficial way by wearing excess makeup and getting lip injections and more. Hopefully she doesn't get too extreme with transforming her appearance.
One of the main reasons our society views these superficial looks as beautiful is because of objects. Take for example Barbie’s. Barbie’s convey this image of a woman that we see as perfect and attractive, however, their bodies and looks are completely unrealistic. This is what a real woman would look like with barbie's dimensions.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
What’s the big deal about disingenuous mistakes?
In our society today, disingenuous mistakes are a popular trend. In this picture Lindsay flaunts another disingenuous mistake this time wearing tights with runs throughout them. I think it looks unsophisticated. When I first think of tights, I think of women in offices or women dressed in suits wearing either black or nude tights under their dress or skirt. However tight trend seems to have spread throughout the fashion world, and it is no longer just seen in the office or at church. Nowadays girls sport tights of different colors, patterns, and textures, but how did the ripped tights enter the mix?
Lindsay’s love for wearing tights with runs makes me think of those old mom sayings, particularly the one about never leaving the house wearing a pair of tights with a hole or run in them. Here Lindsay surely goes against this saying.Lindsay’s not the only one sporting these infamous ripped tights but much of the fashion world seems to be, and lots of people are talking about it as well.
Typically whenever a pair of tights gets a run in them we used to throw them away because it just looks incongruous. But now women are paying money for tights with extensive ladders and rips in them. Lindsay Lohan is a young celebrity icon who seems to be fond of conveying clothing with disingenuous mistakes. But why she does this is somewhat difficult to see. Ripped tights are an ambiguous style. Lindsay’s ripped tights could represent her rebellion to the rest of society. Or maybe wants to communicate a "bad girl" image. Or her tights too could represent rich dressing poor.
It is true that clothing can convey one's status, however status in clothing can be entirely ambiguous. In the picture we obviously know that Lindsay Lohan is not wearing ripped tights because she can't afford to buy new ones. Lindsay is of high status yet she wears grungy looking ripped tights. But why? The idea of the rich dressing poor and the poor dressing rich is a common craze in our society. There is within this trend the idea that by dressing with understatement as Lindsay does, it has the ability to more accurately exude your superior social status.
Lindsay’s love for wearing tights with runs makes me think of those old mom sayings, particularly the one about never leaving the house wearing a pair of tights with a hole or run in them. Here Lindsay surely goes against this saying.Lindsay’s not the only one sporting these infamous ripped tights but much of the fashion world seems to be, and lots of people are talking about it as well.
Typically whenever a pair of tights gets a run in them we used to throw them away because it just looks incongruous. But now women are paying money for tights with extensive ladders and rips in them. Lindsay Lohan is a young celebrity icon who seems to be fond of conveying clothing with disingenuous mistakes. But why she does this is somewhat difficult to see. Ripped tights are an ambiguous style. Lindsay’s ripped tights could represent her rebellion to the rest of society. Or maybe wants to communicate a "bad girl" image. Or her tights too could represent rich dressing poor.
It is true that clothing can convey one's status, however status in clothing can be entirely ambiguous. In the picture we obviously know that Lindsay Lohan is not wearing ripped tights because she can't afford to buy new ones. Lindsay is of high status yet she wears grungy looking ripped tights. But why? The idea of the rich dressing poor and the poor dressing rich is a common craze in our society. There is within this trend the idea that by dressing with understatement as Lindsay does, it has the ability to more accurately exude your superior social status.
Ripped Jeans Fab or Drab
Ripped jeans…quite a popular phenomenon, but what really makes them so popular? Ripped jeans can be described as a disingenuous mistake. On the surface they look like an old pair of worn out jeans but really they have deeper meaning than that. Ripped jeans could represent a phenomenon of the rich dressing poor. You would be surprised that ripped jeans are actually a boatload more expensive then regular un-ripped ones. I believe that this is true because ripped jeans can represent status. Most of the time if someone is wearing ripped jeans they had purchased them that way. Why people spend over $150 on ripped jeans is beyond me.
I once watched a show on Bravo about fashion designers and in one episode the designers visited a denim factory for designer jeans. There they learned how to make distressed and ripped jeans. I realized that the manufacturing of those destroyed designer jeans style is more complicated than I anticipated. I suppose that is why ripped designer jeans are so expensive. On the other hand though they could just be one of those designer styles that cost more for the trend.
Rarely do people actually wear jeans that they had accidentally ripped while bending down in them. Just like Lindsay Lohan wears these outrageously ripped jeans here, people correlate ripped jeans as a celebrity style because celebrities flaunt expensive fashions. Yet ripped jeans don’t appear as expensive styles to me. Although ripped jeans are not really flattering on any body, people still buy them. They seem to be a trend that fluctuates in and out of our society. And despite their popularity, I still wouldn’t waste my money on them.
Many people have even posted “How Too’s” for ripped jeans all over the internet. It shows how popular this trend has really gotten.
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