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Why are you so fat? Your body. Your choice.
There is much ado about Stella Boonshoft’s underwear selfie that she recently posted and I have something I have to get off my chest about this whole boondoggle. Stella runs a blog that is part of a Fat Acceptance movement, which is essentially asking the wider culture to accept fat bodies as beautiful and valuable. Which is fair enough. My first reaction on seeing her picture was Eww gross! I do not find fat to be beautiful at all. I don’t personally like how it looks all squishy and soft and the thought of touching that soft warm squishiness makes me yuck! so hard. That’s just me, I know. But…
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What does a year’s worth of makeup look like on a face? Melting Voldemort.
How does a year’s worth of makeup look on a face? Filmmakers Lernert & Sander documented it, and believe you me, it’s not pretty. Dubbed ‘Natural Beauty’, the pair and their team piled on 365 applications of make up on Belgian model, Hannalore Knuts, in a nine hour sitting that culminated in the use of 228.40ml of foundation, eyeshadow, blush and lipgloss. The creation of the film also saw a male intern sit through a test session of 100 layers to make sure ‘this amount of makeup wouldn’t kill a person’, (LOL) and poor Hannalore eating and drinking through a straw. This just calls to mind those horror stories of…
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A guide to pretty crying for the modern woman You probably cry on a fairly regular basis, and it probably isn't pretty.
As a woman, you probably cry on a fairly regular basis. Indeed, I imagine you just squeezed out a couple of salty ones between “probably” and “cry”. I’m right, aren’t I? Am I right? I’m right. It’s fine, it’s not your fault – evolution has made you that way. Well, as a man, I am here to guide you in the ways of exhibiting your innate lachrymosity while not interfering with your ability to perform your other, more important duty: to look pretty. It is all very well having a brain and a job and money to buy skinny lattes and lip balm, but as you climb your chosen career…