“Faking It” Current Style Pod on-air in March
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then I would have to say the beholder is oftentimes, JACKED UP!
For this Current TV piece, I explore what women do for the love of beauty. I headed out to Fred Segal Beauty in Santa Monica to be uncover the mysteries that lie behind the glass doors.
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What I found out? That we pay a high price tag, pain and a lot of time in the name of beauty. The services I got done included hair extensions, eyelash extensions, airbrush tanning, a facial, and laser hair removal equaling over $3000 worth!!! That is beans to what some women spend for “upkeep”.
So was it worth it? Well, I couldn’t help but feel a little more confident walking out, with that Salon Selectives/Pantene commercial in mind. But after a day or two, I wanted to rip my hair extensions out cause they were so itchy (real hair from a girl from india, or a cadaver-gross!) a weird orangy color washed off my skin in the shower, and I couldn’t clean my eyelids well cause of the lash extensions! It was fun to be primped but the maintenance is way too high for a surfer girl who only wears make up when necessary.
The irony in it all is that people FAKE IT to look MORE NATURAL. So why do we do it? Because we subscribe to what the media feeds us, and what we “should” look like, even though celebrities really just look like you and me if you take all the fake stuff off. In other words,
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder,
or do we behold the tall and thin, golden tan skin, place our value on the outward not within ourselves and who we are but what we do,
and the superficial expealidotious images on those billboards so high, so fly,
that they can almost touch the sky
Of emaciated faces, coked up, doped up
yet we are roped up
to these images of models
of chiseled features
of what we aspire to be?
This is thee reality TV for you and me
Images of perfect faces nipped and tucked but what the F@#! is it all for?
So people will love us more?
Appreciate us more?
Tell us more about what we need to change to be accepted into this society?
That is an excerpt from some of my spoken word. For more on that, you’ll have to wait ‘til next time. And a month later, I have almost pulled out all the extensions in my head.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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