A Makeover World!
Are you ugly, tired, sick, poor, over worked, unappreciated, do kids make fun of you at school? Do people make fun of you at work? Are you missing teeth or hair or an eye? Is there something unique about your features that people point at and laugh? Well don't cry! Don't worry, or sit at home depressed because you are an individual. Makeovers are here!
Home Delivery, Life & Style, Maury, Jerry Springer, A Makeover Story, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and even shows based on fixing your mental health will dress you for success and make you look just like everybody else. Isn't that what you want? You want the right hair, the right clothes, the right makeup for right now. Everyone does. And everyone can get it from magazines to TV everyone is offering you a makeover.
But do makeovers really fix depression? Do they make your life better? Do they fix relationship problems, make kids at school like you or stop people from pointing and laughing at you? And more importantly, do you want so much emphasis placed on your outer appearance that something like changing your makeup will solve everything?
What happens the next day when you put your work uniform back on and wash the nice glossy paint off your face? Are you that better person the makeover made you look like? I would guess it's the hairstylist effect. You go to the hair dresser's and you get the best cut and style you've ever seen and no matter how much moose or gel or blow drying you do, you can never get that look back again. So now you still have the problems but now you also have this image in your mind of what you could look like if you were someone else. If only I were someone who didn't have kids getting in the way of my fashionable looks and need to buy $80 pants... I would be so happy!
Maybe some people were just misguided. They liked stripes with polka dots. They looked a little weird but they were their own person. Now, they're slick and beautiful in a socially acceptable way. The makeover bleached the originality out of them. Do they ever buy them new clothes with their stripes? Their boldness? Home Delivery seems to think every girl should be dressed in pink and every boy needs to be dressed in blue. A Makeover Story seems to think high heels are the only shoes a woman is allowed to wear. Who gave them the right to decide?
It's shallow. It's letting people perpetuate the belief that everything a person has is in how they dress and what they own. A child with one eye shouldn't have to get a fake eye so the other children will leave her alone. There's nothing wrong with her. There is however something wrong with those other children. They don't understand how hurtful they're being. Why not explain to them that they are being hurtful and give them a chance to know that little girl as a person? Or the women with no hair or skin diseases... they don't need to be changed! We need to change the way we look at them!
If someone is clean and dressed by their own personal standards, they should be encouraged to be themselves. They should not be pressed by friends and families to bow to fashion and be as pretty as everyone else... Everyone likes art, not everyone likes Picasso. It's the same with fashion and what we watch on TV and what activities we do or like, they're all different. So let's exalt the original! Wear neon like you did in the 80's! If you like it, it's you and it's fine.
Be you!
And don't get me started on how they treat people who aren't model thin...
Focus on the inside! And I know we all like to watch makeovers, so that's not going to stop, but maybe we could watch mental makeovers instead. Free your mind from conventional fashion and be as unconventionally beautiful as your personality and intelligence can make you.
http://www.ozmia.com
Home Delivery, Life & Style, Maury, Jerry Springer, A Makeover Story, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and even shows based on fixing your mental health will dress you for success and make you look just like everybody else. Isn't that what you want? You want the right hair, the right clothes, the right makeup for right now. Everyone does. And everyone can get it from magazines to TV everyone is offering you a makeover.
But do makeovers really fix depression? Do they make your life better? Do they fix relationship problems, make kids at school like you or stop people from pointing and laughing at you? And more importantly, do you want so much emphasis placed on your outer appearance that something like changing your makeup will solve everything?
What happens the next day when you put your work uniform back on and wash the nice glossy paint off your face? Are you that better person the makeover made you look like? I would guess it's the hairstylist effect. You go to the hair dresser's and you get the best cut and style you've ever seen and no matter how much moose or gel or blow drying you do, you can never get that look back again. So now you still have the problems but now you also have this image in your mind of what you could look like if you were someone else. If only I were someone who didn't have kids getting in the way of my fashionable looks and need to buy $80 pants... I would be so happy!
Maybe some people were just misguided. They liked stripes with polka dots. They looked a little weird but they were their own person. Now, they're slick and beautiful in a socially acceptable way. The makeover bleached the originality out of them. Do they ever buy them new clothes with their stripes? Their boldness? Home Delivery seems to think every girl should be dressed in pink and every boy needs to be dressed in blue. A Makeover Story seems to think high heels are the only shoes a woman is allowed to wear. Who gave them the right to decide?
It's shallow. It's letting people perpetuate the belief that everything a person has is in how they dress and what they own. A child with one eye shouldn't have to get a fake eye so the other children will leave her alone. There's nothing wrong with her. There is however something wrong with those other children. They don't understand how hurtful they're being. Why not explain to them that they are being hurtful and give them a chance to know that little girl as a person? Or the women with no hair or skin diseases... they don't need to be changed! We need to change the way we look at them!
If someone is clean and dressed by their own personal standards, they should be encouraged to be themselves. They should not be pressed by friends and families to bow to fashion and be as pretty as everyone else... Everyone likes art, not everyone likes Picasso. It's the same with fashion and what we watch on TV and what activities we do or like, they're all different. So let's exalt the original! Wear neon like you did in the 80's! If you like it, it's you and it's fine.
Be you!
And don't get me started on how they treat people who aren't model thin...
Focus on the inside! And I know we all like to watch makeovers, so that's not going to stop, but maybe we could watch mental makeovers instead. Free your mind from conventional fashion and be as unconventionally beautiful as your personality and intelligence can make you.
http://www.ozmia.com
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