Western Eyes

December 5, 2011
To learn more about this plastic surgery phenomenon, go to the link below to watch a very informative documentary on it

http://www.nfb.ca/film/western-eyes  
 

Who Needs a Fountain of Youth?

December 3, 2011

AARP’S November 2011 Issue featured men and women in their 50s who have embraced their outward appearance and inner-self, and here’s why: 


Stella Moreno, 50

Anthony, New Mexico
Speech pathologist

"Two weeks after I had my son, I turned 41. Two years later, we adopted our daughter from China, and I stopped coloring my hair. The first time I saw the gray, I thought, 'Oh, this is really different.' But my husband encouraged me every step of the way. I would get stopped with my little ones, ...


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Altered Sense of Beauty

December 3, 2011

Digitally altered photos and body image: Look at the retouching

November 29, 2011|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times / for the Booster Shots blog

Digitally-altered photographs in magazines and beyond -- a pimple fuzzed out here, a crooked nose reshaped there -- can be nice to look at.  But as photo retouching has become more widespread, scientists worry that such idealized images have negative effects too, making people less satisfied with their own, less-than-perfect looks.  

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Curves

December 3, 2011

We're all real women ... what do men or size have to do with it?

By: Clementine Ford 
 

Yesterday, Mia Freedman's website Mama Mia featured an interview with noted harridan and all round brassy broad Catherine Deveny. Deveny had read one-too-many articles fretting about body image, and she wanted to "stage a coup on dissatisfaction" as the website put it.

Beneath the headline "I'm 80kg, size 16 and I love my body", Deveny spoke candidly about her frustration with a world that continues to t...


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