I grew up in a very small village full of very narrow-minded people where everyone knew everyone and you would breath in gossip along with the oxygen.
My parents were raised under the communistic regime to be exactly like every other single person in the society - never stand out, never have an opinion, never dare to say what you mean, never think for yourself, never protest, always live up to the values, never be different.
The system fell when I was 3 years old but people remained the same. They were equally judgmental, biased, prejudiced, xenophobic and treating everyone who was different as a plague.
With having all of this in mind, my parents tried to raise me to be "normal". Not to stand out, to respect the values, to avoid being the one gossiped about, to blend in.
When I was 7 years old my parents became members of an extreme Christian group which made the rules and values even more strict. And I'm not even speaking about how they were multiplied.
I was following their lead through my childhood and puberty, which wasn't easy because it felt so unnatural to me. I always had the desire to be different and to be noticed. I always hated to be the "grey mouse" and I looked with disgust at the girls whose example I was supposed to follow. I never understood why I always had to be modest and silent. Why I had to let others speak. Why I always had to agree with the older and therefore wiser, talk only with girls and women and only about household, cooking and listening to their bragging about anything possible. I was bored to death every single time we had visitors or when we went somewhere for a visit. But I never disobeyed and it didn't even occur to me that disobeying was an option.
My puberty was the worst period of my life. I had severe acne on my face which was impossible to hide and impossible for other people not to notice. It was also impossible for my peers in school not to bully me for it. My parents were having pretty serious financial troubles then as well, so the priorities were rent and food - not clothes and shoes. Not even mentioning skin care or make-up. I learned not to care about how I looked. It wasn't in my power to change anything about it so I didn't worry about it too much. I just avoided mirrors and being caught on camera.
What was pissing me off quite much though was the fact that, because of my looks, I had no social life. I was avoiding boys and their cruel jokes as much as they were avoiding me and my ugliness and I was avoiding girls because I didn't want to be the beast next to all the beauties. Teenagers just treat the world by its looks, not by character or personality. That's just the way it is and it won't change.
I never believed that looks aren't everything. It was my experience that if you had looks you were popular, accepted and people were eager to listen to your opinion, which of course wasn't happening for me. I grew up to be an outcast. I still didn't hate people and I wanted to be a part of society. I just accepted the way they are and I didn't let it bother me.
Years passed, my acne disappeared and I finally had money for make-up and clothes (I remember how I blew my entire first full-month salary on it and how amazing it felt). I still lived with my parents and I was a member of the extreme christian group as well- I didn't really care for it myself but I was just doing what my parents expected me to do. I hated the majority of the rules and I felt like a lion in a cage- I was never being myself because I was not allowed to. I remember my dad's never ending lectures about how bad it is to desire to be different and how am I supposed to follow the rules. I also remember how my dad hated the phrase "to be yourself". I never knew who I was and I could never find my own style. I was jumping from one style to another but I never felt good about any of them. I was just lost.
I wasn't happy but I also wasn't too unhappy. I just accepted the fact that I had to live the way my parents and my religion told me to and there was no way out for me. And I learned that the only way how to not go insane is by just not giving a crap about anything or anybody.
A bright light from the sky appeared when my Dutch boyfriend who was living in the Netherlands, asked me to marry him and move in with him. I accepted his proposal immediately. I really liked him and it was an amazing opportunity to escape my country, which I hated for the obvious above mentioned reasons, and to escape from my parent's dictatorship. Of course, I was still bound by religion - just like my future husband and his family. But I was eager to finally become myself and follow my rules as much as I could.
I won't mention any details of my marriage but I ended up being disappointed.
People in Dutch villages are as equally narrow-minded and gossipy as the people back home. Maybe less extreme but it's the same story all over again. The religion had the same rules and the same values as like back home and the people wouldn't accept me for who I was. I dared to be myself just a tiny bit but it made me already way too different from them. I lived like this over 5 years, I felt worse day by day until the point that I couldn't take it anymore. There was nothing else left for me but to quit. So I did. My marriage, my religion, my acquaintances, my so called friends, everyone I knew. I left everything behind and I started all over again from the scratch.
This time I didn't let anybody tell me how to live or which rules and values to follow. I decided to never become a part of any religion and to never get married again. The world was wide open, just waiting for me to explore it. I discovered metal music (which wasn't allowed by my religion) and it's sub-genres and ended up loving it. I started visiting metal concerts and festivals and I was shocked by the people. Christian religion is picturing metalheads as violent drug users, ready to destroy everything. I saw how horribly wrong they are. I felt great between metalheads. I loved the fact that when the music starts playing they can behave as crazy or "idiotic" (how would my folks and people back home describe them) as they want to, and nobody cares. Nobody is looking at anybody with contempt, nobody is pointing fingers and nobody is judging. I felt the freedom of being myself between these people. I remember how awkward I felt on my first metal concert. I was just standing next to the wall observing other people not daring to move. I was crazy in love with the clothing and make-up of the alternative/metal scene and it took me almost a year to dare to wear it myself. I started slowly step by step transforming my looks into something I really liked. And something that defines me. Now I can honestly say that I look like who I really am. I like all alternative styles and sub-cultures but I don't consider myself part of any of them particularly. I like to be nu-goth or psycho-billy one day and industrial or grunge another day. I like the variety. And I'm happy this way.
I still live in the same village and I see people staring at me when I wear the clothes and make-up they find unusual. I don't care about it. It amuses me. I like to shock people. I like to be unconventional and I want to show that I am not one of them. With my looks I am representing freedom and enlightenment and my refusal to follow religious or any rules which I disagree with. I am no longer unnoticed, I am not a grey mouse and I only do what I like. I respect other people and their choices, I respect the country I live in and the rules of the country. I don't do anything illegal and I am not encouraging anyone to do so. But as long as I am free by the rules of this country to listen to whatever music I like and to look whatever way I want I will most certainly do so.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
7 most common brow mistakes
I see so many times women with wrong shaped, or badly filled-in eye brows. It is a shame because such a mistake can ruin the entire look. No matter how perfect your eye and face make up is, if you have brows done not correct way, it will just not look good.
In this article I will be talking (writing) about 7 ways of wrongly done brows - ergo brow "fails". I will try also to explain why are those specific brow styles simply WRONG.
To show you what I mean. I did my brows the "correct" way (in my opinion), then I took the photo and I changed the shapes, thickness and color using online photo editor. I hope you enjoy this article, and that you won't be offended if those mistakes are concearning you. In the end of this article I will mention mistakes I made in my brow routine. Here we go.
Fail nr. 1: NO BROWS
No brows means that all face, lip and eye make up is done but brows are not filled-in, not brushed or anything else what you might do to enhance them. You can see if you look to this picture that something is missing - without defined brows look doesn't look complete.
Most of the women don't have perfect brows - neither do I. The hair is not thick enough, there are some sparse areas, the hair doesn't grow much at the ends of the brows, so they look short. Therefore I have to fill them in, to give them shape and bit of a color, because they are too light and my hair is black. About the correct color of your brows I will talk later.
Only a few of the women who have very nice and full brows can afford to not doing anything with them. Yet I recommend to at least brush them through with clear brow gel or mascara, it gives them nice shape and it makes the hair going one direction.
Fail nr. 2: BROWS TOO FAR FROM EACH OTHER
This is one of the WORST things you can do - not fill-in your brows close enough which will give you terrible clown look. Please, don't do that.
I know, Joan Collins also had brows like that in Dynasty, but yeah, there are no 80's anymore, so such a thing is definitely not acceptable in 2014. Still, I've even seen make up artists with brows so far from each other, and I don't know what to really think about them then - poor judgement of what fits to them or simply not knowing much about beauty? It's just plain wrong.
There are theory's on where your brows should begin. Of course, you don't want to put them too close to each other because it will give you a angry look, and that's something you don't want.
I've seen one quite good "pencil technique" where you simply put a pencil in front of your nostril so it's straight and you just follow it's line and there should be your brow starting.
It might fit to most of the women, except those with close set eyes. Then their brows should start above their inner corners of their eyes.
Another technique would be to frown as much as you can, and where the brows start to wrinkle in the middle, there should be your brows starting. And that's also your natural brow line. It might be not 100% accurate but it might help you to figure out were should your brows start.
Fail nr. 3: CLOWN BROWS
It says for itself - there type of brows will make you look like a clown. These brows are TOO THIN - it is just one line, same thick at the beginning as at the end and which is same bad or even worse - BAD ROUND SHAPE. I personally really hate round brows. It looks like you would put a glass on you eye and just traced its shape. That's not how brows should look like.
Too thin brows will make you look older - that's for sure. It was a big hit in some decades, I still remember the 90's when everybody just over plucked their eyebrows till they were super thin, even barely visible. Even worse, some women just plucked them totally gone and drew them on with a pencil - just like in 1930's and 40's. It really doesn't look natural nor nice. If you have only few hair on your brows or you don't have any hair on your brows at all, you might try some brow pomade (for example dip brow from Anastasia Beverly Hills or Make up Forever Aqua Brow, and from cheaper brands Sleek makes pretty good brow wax), with which you can draw brows on and blend it nicely (which you can't do with just brow pencil). Try to draw brows thicker in the inner corners, slimming down towards the arch and from arch till outer end slimming even more. The perfect brows should have a shape of wings of flying albatross or eagle. That brings me to issue nr. 2 which is shape. I have seen girls with brows plucked to round shape - it might be probably because rumour says that you should pluck your brows only from the bottom, never from the top. I personally find this a nonsense. You can pluck your brows from any direction you want to give them nice shape. If your brows are growing naturally high and you want to give them nice "flying wings" shape, you can easily pluck from top as well. Anything which avoids the shape like it's on this photo.
Fail nr. 4: WEIRD SHAPE
This is another example of not good shape. It is not natural, it gives a face not nice expression and the shape itself is just weird. It's definitely NOT flying wings shape.
Another thing which makes it wrong is that slimming of the brow is not smooth - brow is slimming towards the arch quite fluent but from the arch till the end is way too thin.
This shape is also more of a "straight" brow category, which I have nothing against - straight brows are awesome if they fit you but you can see on this picture that this shape really does not fit me.
Easiest for you to find out which brow shape fits you the most is make a photo of it and make a photo of another one - or draw your brows on with photo editor and then you can decide which brow shape will fit you and which won't. I recommend to simply stick with what you naturally have. If you have naturally straight brows, go for that shape but if your brows are naturally arched and defined, stay with that shape.
Fail nr. 5: WAY TOO DARK
Here you can see right away what is wrong - the brows are too dark. Although they match my hair color but they don't match my skin color.
The key for finding out how dark the brows should be is to compare hair color and skin color and find a compromise.
If you have black hair and dark skin, black brows are okay. But if you have black hair and pale skin, you have to go for brown or dark brown - something which won't look too harsh on your skin.
In general - if you are brunette, your brows should be 2 or 3 shades lighter than your hair. If you have light hair, then they should be 1 or 2 shades darker than your hair. But again - any coloring you do on yourself has to be in harmony with your skin.
Fail nr. 6: TOO SHORT
Here we have brows which are too short. Too short means that they are ending before outer eye corner. With finding out where the brows should end we can use the pencil technique again. Put pencil so it goes from your nostril, along outer corner of your eye and there you will see where should your brows end. Pretty easy.
But again, don't draw your brows too long. It was very fashionable in 30's and 40's (or even earlier, I might be wrong), the era where women drew their brows on with a pencil and they drew them so long that it gave them super "bored" look - that's what they were actually going for.
Now, we the most certainly don't want to look bored. We want to look pretty, happy and healthy.
Fail nr. 7: TOO LIGHT
We have already talked about proper color of the brows. You could see how does it look like if we use too dark color for the brows. Here, you can see what happens if the brows are way too light. If I would have light brown or blond hair, it would be okay. It is also not such a big deal if you would look only to my face. But, if I would have my hair loose than you would see that it doesn't look good with my black hair. It would even look quite funny I think.
So, keep in mind that there really should be harmony between your brow color, your skin color and your hair color.
THE "PERFECT BROWS"
This is the perfect shape of brows for my complexion. The color is right, not too dark, not too light, thickness and length is ideal. Although, I had a much struggle with my brows in my pass.
When I was younger, I plucked my brows way too thin.I was filling them in with dark brown pencil. It wasn't bad but it definitely made me look older. Then I started to fill in my brows thicker but I was using very rich dark brown eyeshadow so it was looking very obvious and very harsh and the first thing what people would notice on my face were my brows.
Then I discovered Catrice brow powder in perfect taupe brown colour, so it wasn't too warm or too fake looking, so it made my brow routine much easier and results much more natural. I also started to use small angle brush for application - which is much better than my previous flat brush which didn't make very thin lines.
Then I have purchased my first dip brow pomade from Anastasia Beverly Hills and it was something very new for me. With creamy gel you have to do your brows totally different than with powder, and you can not make any mistakes. After some time I learned how to do that properly, so now I don't have a problem with it anymore. Although, I still think I should switch the color from Chocolate to something darker like Dark brown or even Ebony.
Till some time ago I was making my brows way too close to each other (as you can see on my older posts). It made me look older and angry. I admit. Now I can see it much better because I know what I did wrong and now I can see the difference much better. I hope you can also learn a little bit more about mistakes you should not be making and I hope it makes you look better and also feel better. I know that beauty is just a matter of taste but I think that each of us should just try to look the best we can....
In this article I will be talking (writing) about 7 ways of wrongly done brows - ergo brow "fails". I will try also to explain why are those specific brow styles simply WRONG.
To show you what I mean. I did my brows the "correct" way (in my opinion), then I took the photo and I changed the shapes, thickness and color using online photo editor. I hope you enjoy this article, and that you won't be offended if those mistakes are concearning you. In the end of this article I will mention mistakes I made in my brow routine. Here we go.
No brows means that all face, lip and eye make up is done but brows are not filled-in, not brushed or anything else what you might do to enhance them. You can see if you look to this picture that something is missing - without defined brows look doesn't look complete.
Most of the women don't have perfect brows - neither do I. The hair is not thick enough, there are some sparse areas, the hair doesn't grow much at the ends of the brows, so they look short. Therefore I have to fill them in, to give them shape and bit of a color, because they are too light and my hair is black. About the correct color of your brows I will talk later.
Only a few of the women who have very nice and full brows can afford to not doing anything with them. Yet I recommend to at least brush them through with clear brow gel or mascara, it gives them nice shape and it makes the hair going one direction.
This is one of the WORST things you can do - not fill-in your brows close enough which will give you terrible clown look. Please, don't do that.
I know, Joan Collins also had brows like that in Dynasty, but yeah, there are no 80's anymore, so such a thing is definitely not acceptable in 2014. Still, I've even seen make up artists with brows so far from each other, and I don't know what to really think about them then - poor judgement of what fits to them or simply not knowing much about beauty? It's just plain wrong.
There are theory's on where your brows should begin. Of course, you don't want to put them too close to each other because it will give you a angry look, and that's something you don't want.
I've seen one quite good "pencil technique" where you simply put a pencil in front of your nostril so it's straight and you just follow it's line and there should be your brow starting.
It might fit to most of the women, except those with close set eyes. Then their brows should start above their inner corners of their eyes.
Another technique would be to frown as much as you can, and where the brows start to wrinkle in the middle, there should be your brows starting. And that's also your natural brow line. It might be not 100% accurate but it might help you to figure out were should your brows start.
It says for itself - there type of brows will make you look like a clown. These brows are TOO THIN - it is just one line, same thick at the beginning as at the end and which is same bad or even worse - BAD ROUND SHAPE. I personally really hate round brows. It looks like you would put a glass on you eye and just traced its shape. That's not how brows should look like.
Too thin brows will make you look older - that's for sure. It was a big hit in some decades, I still remember the 90's when everybody just over plucked their eyebrows till they were super thin, even barely visible. Even worse, some women just plucked them totally gone and drew them on with a pencil - just like in 1930's and 40's. It really doesn't look natural nor nice. If you have only few hair on your brows or you don't have any hair on your brows at all, you might try some brow pomade (for example dip brow from Anastasia Beverly Hills or Make up Forever Aqua Brow, and from cheaper brands Sleek makes pretty good brow wax), with which you can draw brows on and blend it nicely (which you can't do with just brow pencil). Try to draw brows thicker in the inner corners, slimming down towards the arch and from arch till outer end slimming even more. The perfect brows should have a shape of wings of flying albatross or eagle. That brings me to issue nr. 2 which is shape. I have seen girls with brows plucked to round shape - it might be probably because rumour says that you should pluck your brows only from the bottom, never from the top. I personally find this a nonsense. You can pluck your brows from any direction you want to give them nice shape. If your brows are growing naturally high and you want to give them nice "flying wings" shape, you can easily pluck from top as well. Anything which avoids the shape like it's on this photo.
This is another example of not good shape. It is not natural, it gives a face not nice expression and the shape itself is just weird. It's definitely NOT flying wings shape.
Another thing which makes it wrong is that slimming of the brow is not smooth - brow is slimming towards the arch quite fluent but from the arch till the end is way too thin.
This shape is also more of a "straight" brow category, which I have nothing against - straight brows are awesome if they fit you but you can see on this picture that this shape really does not fit me.
Easiest for you to find out which brow shape fits you the most is make a photo of it and make a photo of another one - or draw your brows on with photo editor and then you can decide which brow shape will fit you and which won't. I recommend to simply stick with what you naturally have. If you have naturally straight brows, go for that shape but if your brows are naturally arched and defined, stay with that shape.
Here you can see right away what is wrong - the brows are too dark. Although they match my hair color but they don't match my skin color.
The key for finding out how dark the brows should be is to compare hair color and skin color and find a compromise.
If you have black hair and dark skin, black brows are okay. But if you have black hair and pale skin, you have to go for brown or dark brown - something which won't look too harsh on your skin.
In general - if you are brunette, your brows should be 2 or 3 shades lighter than your hair. If you have light hair, then they should be 1 or 2 shades darker than your hair. But again - any coloring you do on yourself has to be in harmony with your skin.
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| the pencil technique |
But again, don't draw your brows too long. It was very fashionable in 30's and 40's (or even earlier, I might be wrong), the era where women drew their brows on with a pencil and they drew them so long that it gave them super "bored" look - that's what they were actually going for.
Now, we the most certainly don't want to look bored. We want to look pretty, happy and healthy.
We have already talked about proper color of the brows. You could see how does it look like if we use too dark color for the brows. Here, you can see what happens if the brows are way too light. If I would have light brown or blond hair, it would be okay. It is also not such a big deal if you would look only to my face. But, if I would have my hair loose than you would see that it doesn't look good with my black hair. It would even look quite funny I think.
So, keep in mind that there really should be harmony between your brow color, your skin color and your hair color.
THE "PERFECT BROWS"
This is the perfect shape of brows for my complexion. The color is right, not too dark, not too light, thickness and length is ideal. Although, I had a much struggle with my brows in my pass.
When I was younger, I plucked my brows way too thin.I was filling them in with dark brown pencil. It wasn't bad but it definitely made me look older. Then I started to fill in my brows thicker but I was using very rich dark brown eyeshadow so it was looking very obvious and very harsh and the first thing what people would notice on my face were my brows.Then I discovered Catrice brow powder in perfect taupe brown colour, so it wasn't too warm or too fake looking, so it made my brow routine much easier and results much more natural. I also started to use small angle brush for application - which is much better than my previous flat brush which didn't make very thin lines.
Then I have purchased my first dip brow pomade from Anastasia Beverly Hills and it was something very new for me. With creamy gel you have to do your brows totally different than with powder, and you can not make any mistakes. After some time I learned how to do that properly, so now I don't have a problem with it anymore. Although, I still think I should switch the color from Chocolate to something darker like Dark brown or even Ebony.
Till some time ago I was making my brows way too close to each other (as you can see on my older posts). It made me look older and angry. I admit. Now I can see it much better because I know what I did wrong and now I can see the difference much better. I hope you can also learn a little bit more about mistakes you should not be making and I hope it makes you look better and also feel better. I know that beauty is just a matter of taste but I think that each of us should just try to look the best we can....
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
How to fix damaged hair over night
Lots of us are from time to time experiencing damaged hair, split ends, dry and weak hair without shine and all those kind of unpleasant and irritating issues which keep us further and further from perfect healthy shiny hair.
The most common and most drastic solution is cutting. For women who want to have their hair long or as long as possible cutting is very undesirable. Therefore they keep on trying out new and different products on the market which promise to fix all those above mentioned problems.
I have tried several of those products but I haven't find anything extraordinary which would be worth of mentioning. I have found one product though, which really DOES make difference. And it is quite cheap and you can purchase it very easily. I am talking about SWEET ALMOND OIL.
One of the best qualities of almond oil is that is 100% natural - which means there are absolutely no chemicals added. ( I am using Sweet Almond Oil from Jacob Hooy), There are no fragrances, no alcohol, no silicone...absolutely nothing which would be in any kind not good for your hair. Therefore you can never go wrong with natural product in comparison with factory produced item.
Another advantage of almond oil is that it deep conditions hair and you will see the difference after only 1 use. Of course, if you will use it frequently, you will definitely get healthy shiny hair.
Although I am not talking about any miracle. If your hair is heavily damaged or "burned" from bleaching almond oil won't be able to make your hair absolutely healthy or extremely shiny.
HOW TO USE IT:
Depending on your hair (and hair damage) use it 1 till 4 times a week (you can even use it every day if you feel like you need to).
Warm it up in hot water (it is not necessary but it helps to penetrate the hair). Some people warm up oils in the microwave oven but I really don't recommend it ( there is a theory according to which micro waves are actually very bad for human body).
Brush your hair very good - there should not be any tangles.
Gently rub the oil on your hair - start about 10 cm from your roots and work your way down. You can put the oil also in your hair roots and massage your scalp if you have dry skin as well. I personally don't do it because my hair tends to get quite oily. I apply the oil only where is my hair damaged.
Be very generous, apply as much as you can. Your hair should be soaked with oil. Then you can braid your hair or tie it in a bun or do what you're most comfortable with and leave it in for 24 hours or longer if you like to. I mostly apply the oil in the evening and I leave it over night.
Then wash your hair with shampoo and apply conditioner as you normally would.
After I tried this almond oil treatment I could see the difference right away. Of course, my hair wasn't damaged too badly, but I had split ends and bottom section of my hair was very dry, not shiny and I could feel that my hair has lost elasticity. After 24 hour oil treatment my hair felt much healthier, shiny and was much easier to brush it. I am using this treatment approximately 2 - 3 times a month just to keep it healthy, shiny and to give it an extra boost of vitamins and moisture.
For more information about benefits of almond oil click here
The most common and most drastic solution is cutting. For women who want to have their hair long or as long as possible cutting is very undesirable. Therefore they keep on trying out new and different products on the market which promise to fix all those above mentioned problems.
One of the best qualities of almond oil is that is 100% natural - which means there are absolutely no chemicals added. ( I am using Sweet Almond Oil from Jacob Hooy), There are no fragrances, no alcohol, no silicone...absolutely nothing which would be in any kind not good for your hair. Therefore you can never go wrong with natural product in comparison with factory produced item.
Another advantage of almond oil is that it deep conditions hair and you will see the difference after only 1 use. Of course, if you will use it frequently, you will definitely get healthy shiny hair.Although I am not talking about any miracle. If your hair is heavily damaged or "burned" from bleaching almond oil won't be able to make your hair absolutely healthy or extremely shiny.
HOW TO USE IT:
Depending on your hair (and hair damage) use it 1 till 4 times a week (you can even use it every day if you feel like you need to).
Warm it up in hot water (it is not necessary but it helps to penetrate the hair). Some people warm up oils in the microwave oven but I really don't recommend it ( there is a theory according to which micro waves are actually very bad for human body).
Brush your hair very good - there should not be any tangles.
Gently rub the oil on your hair - start about 10 cm from your roots and work your way down. You can put the oil also in your hair roots and massage your scalp if you have dry skin as well. I personally don't do it because my hair tends to get quite oily. I apply the oil only where is my hair damaged.
Be very generous, apply as much as you can. Your hair should be soaked with oil. Then you can braid your hair or tie it in a bun or do what you're most comfortable with and leave it in for 24 hours or longer if you like to. I mostly apply the oil in the evening and I leave it over night.
Then wash your hair with shampoo and apply conditioner as you normally would.
After I tried this almond oil treatment I could see the difference right away. Of course, my hair wasn't damaged too badly, but I had split ends and bottom section of my hair was very dry, not shiny and I could feel that my hair has lost elasticity. After 24 hour oil treatment my hair felt much healthier, shiny and was much easier to brush it. I am using this treatment approximately 2 - 3 times a month just to keep it healthy, shiny and to give it an extra boost of vitamins and moisture.
For more information about benefits of almond oil click here
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Photoshop lies
Once I was browsing through YouTube and I found several interesting videos entitled "celebrities photoshopped" and "celebrities without make up". Honestly, I couldn't believe my eyes. I have found women which world presents as an examples of beauty, icons, idols, "the most sexy people of the world" etc. looking just like any other common women easily found in shops or on the streets. No perfect skins, no perfect shaped bodies, no perfect make up...it really made me think.
I know that nobody is perfect and I am not jealous of celebrities because they are dealing with problems I really wouldn't like to have and I don't think that money they make are worth it (no privacy, paparazzi hiding behind every bush, every step they make is watched and judged by public, stalkers, mentally ill fans, made up crap in magazines, finding out about cheating boyfriends from the press, etc).
Also, I have never been a big fan of celebrities because I don't find them that special. Maybe some of them might be great singers or great actors and they may appear absolutely gorgeous on photo's or on TV but most of the time "products" they sell aren't there.
In this article I will be talking specifically about beauty or so called beauty.
I will never understand why are they trying to be perfect. And I will also never understand why magazines force people to be perfect. Why do they have to photoshop every single photo they have and try to convince us that every celebrity woman has an amazing skin, that none of them have acne, scars, wrinkles, dark circles, no under eye bags etc....? Or why do they want us to believe that a 55-years old woman has skin as a 20 year old one?
Of course, it's all about money. If some aged celebrity would actually admit to her age and appear on photos the way she actually looks like, nobody would find her (appearance) any special, therefore nobody would buy her photos and nobody would spend lots of money trying to look like her.
Still, I find it ridiculous because if the celebrities let their photos be photoshopped and published making the world believe that they actually ARE perfect, then it puts big pressure at them to actually DO look perfect the entire time they are at the public (with new photo technology and special equipment of paparazzi they have to look perfect even at home).
Well, that's the choice they make. What I find very unethical is, that there are so many women very frustrated because they do everything they can to look like those celebrities without positive result - not realising that those "perfect" celebrities don't exist and they have been lied to.
Yet, what pisses me off even more - not that I have been pissed so far, but I'm getting there - are commercials. For example - a mascara commercial. The
commercial shows that if you apply that specific mascara on your lashes, they will become very thick and long. They put on nice pictures "before" and "after". Only, at the "after" picture the model has totally big fat FALSE lashes on. And they are pretending that it's absolutely natural and that the mascara is absolutely miraculous. I don't get it. Do they really think that we would actually buy it? Why can not they just pick a girl with beautiful lashes, let her put on that mascara and make pictures of it. It would look more believable and not so absolutely stupid as using false lashes pretending they are real.
Or another example - a face cream. On the commercial there is a beautiful young girl (of 15 probably) with beautiful flawless skin and text next to it says that with using that cream you will achieve perfect skin without any imperfections. They will even give you percentage of women for which it worked. But, they also put on a little star * behind a text and if you search for that star * you will find it somewhere hidden with very small letters that says *TEST IN VITRO what actually means that the test is" taking place in a test tube, culture dish, or elsewhere outside a living organism." So that would mean that those women they were referring to were either non living organism or possibility number two - it's total crap. Besides that, the photo they have used is also photoshopped. They made her skin look super smooth, there are not even pores showing which is absolute proof that this specific photo has been adjusted with a computer program. FYI, I am using the term "photoshopped" because most people know that adobe photoshop is a computer program used for adjusting photos and pictures and you can do pretty much everything you want with it. Of course, nowadays there are soooooooooo many different computer programs specialised in this area used by real professionals.
So, after disappointing myself with finding out that famous women aren't that pretty and every magazine photo they are at is probably photoshopped, I decided that I will photoshop one of my photos. I have always wanted to have beautiful flawless skin without any acne scars, pigment spots, freckles nor mimic lines and voila - now I have it! Just few minutes on my computer and if you wouldn't know me you would think that I have perfect skin.....Oh, and I have also make my skin tone less red and I made my eyes greener than they actually are:-)
So, what I wanted to say with this article, my dear readers/followers/friends is PLEASE THINK! When you are reading a magazine or watching TV and you see some celebrity and you sigh "wow, she is so beautiful, I wished I look like her..."and then you look in the mirror and what you see is so different that it makes you feel sad/depressed and then you go to the shop and you see her face on some product and you think about buying it so you would look like her - THINK! She probably doesn't look like that in real and without make up you probably look better than her and the product she sells might be a total lie too. If you really want to know if some product is worth buying I recommend to check it on YouTube, there are girls and women reviewing pretty much everything and there is a bigger chance that they are telling the truth than celebrity in the commercial or commercial itself with their photoshop lies....
I know that nobody is perfect and I am not jealous of celebrities because they are dealing with problems I really wouldn't like to have and I don't think that money they make are worth it (no privacy, paparazzi hiding behind every bush, every step they make is watched and judged by public, stalkers, mentally ill fans, made up crap in magazines, finding out about cheating boyfriends from the press, etc).
Also, I have never been a big fan of celebrities because I don't find them that special. Maybe some of them might be great singers or great actors and they may appear absolutely gorgeous on photo's or on TV but most of the time "products" they sell aren't there.
In this article I will be talking specifically about beauty or so called beauty.
I will never understand why are they trying to be perfect. And I will also never understand why magazines force people to be perfect. Why do they have to photoshop every single photo they have and try to convince us that every celebrity woman has an amazing skin, that none of them have acne, scars, wrinkles, dark circles, no under eye bags etc....? Or why do they want us to believe that a 55-years old woman has skin as a 20 year old one?
Still, I find it ridiculous because if the celebrities let their photos be photoshopped and published making the world believe that they actually ARE perfect, then it puts big pressure at them to actually DO look perfect the entire time they are at the public (with new photo technology and special equipment of paparazzi they have to look perfect even at home).
Well, that's the choice they make. What I find very unethical is, that there are so many women very frustrated because they do everything they can to look like those celebrities without positive result - not realising that those "perfect" celebrities don't exist and they have been lied to.
commercial shows that if you apply that specific mascara on your lashes, they will become very thick and long. They put on nice pictures "before" and "after". Only, at the "after" picture the model has totally big fat FALSE lashes on. And they are pretending that it's absolutely natural and that the mascara is absolutely miraculous. I don't get it. Do they really think that we would actually buy it? Why can not they just pick a girl with beautiful lashes, let her put on that mascara and make pictures of it. It would look more believable and not so absolutely stupid as using false lashes pretending they are real.
So, after disappointing myself with finding out that famous women aren't that pretty and every magazine photo they are at is probably photoshopped, I decided that I will photoshop one of my photos. I have always wanted to have beautiful flawless skin without any acne scars, pigment spots, freckles nor mimic lines and voila - now I have it! Just few minutes on my computer and if you wouldn't know me you would think that I have perfect skin.....Oh, and I have also make my skin tone less red and I made my eyes greener than they actually are:-)
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So, what I wanted to say with this article, my dear readers/followers/friends is PLEASE THINK! When you are reading a magazine or watching TV and you see some celebrity and you sigh "wow, she is so beautiful, I wished I look like her..."and then you look in the mirror and what you see is so different that it makes you feel sad/depressed and then you go to the shop and you see her face on some product and you think about buying it so you would look like her - THINK! She probably doesn't look like that in real and without make up you probably look better than her and the product she sells might be a total lie too. If you really want to know if some product is worth buying I recommend to check it on YouTube, there are girls and women reviewing pretty much everything and there is a bigger chance that they are telling the truth than celebrity in the commercial or commercial itself with their photoshop lies....
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