Sunday, February 10, 2008

"New Beauty" is "new trash" for my recycling bin

I just read the shittiest magazine ever called "New Beauty." It's all about achieving beauty perfection through uses of expensive products and surgery. They even have an advisory board made up of plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and cosmetic dentists to review their articles for accuracy. Of course there isn't one psychologist in the bunch to stop and say, "hey, it might be a better idea to just learn to love your imperfections rather than drive yourself crazy trying to acheive an 'ideal' that, in the end, won't make you a happier person anyways." Nope, instead they talk about how to defy age by using expensive creams (like a $400 bottle of moisturizer that contains olive oil, don't they know I can just buy olive oil at the grocery store for a whole lot less?). If the creams don't work there's a nice big article on the latest botox breakthroughs. And if you're not convinced to try some of these things then they also list what celebrities use which products, so we can all try to look like the airbrushed fake beauties we see on TV. I particularly enjoyed the article that discussed celebrity noses. They used pictures of their profiles to say whether or not they had a nice nose or if they could use surgery to perfect their hideousness, because nobody wants to look at a face that isn't as symmetrical as a computer programmed face. How horrible to have any character! Bring on the cyborgs! Please, I can't stand all this ugliness in the world - wrinkles, fat, age spots, acne, a bump on the nose, static not-so-shiny hair!? Make it go away! It's so offensive to the eyes, how do we even stand to look at each other?! If only we could all live in Hollywood where people spend thousands of dollars to all look pretty and alike, where everyone is so obviously happy because they are beautiful, then maybe the world would be a better place - peace would reign in the Middle East, there would be no famine or poverty, and everyone could hold hands and sing in the spirit of physical perfection. Thank you "New Beauty" for opening people's eyes to all their flaws and supporting their paranoia - with your continueing efforts I'm sure more and more people will succumb and go to ridiculous efforts to be beautifully ageless.

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