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Who Set this standard?

Over the last three decades we have been instructed, nudged, poked and indoctrinated as to what beauty really is. Someone set a bar or a standard and told us we have to achieve this or we aren’t beautiful. Go Twiggy, who in her 60's still looks like she could use a few good meals! We’ve gone along with the programs; after all who doesn’t want to be beautiful?

We’ve endured from colored contact lens to hair extensions, to tattooed eye brows, lips and eyeliner and now tattoos on every inch of the body. We’ve pierced our ears, tongues, brows, belly buttons and now every inch of our body. Our hair has been fried, dyed, glued, curled and layout to the side. Bombshell blonde to bodacious red to ravens wing and every colour in between has graced both thick and thin strands of hair.

Our skin has been liberally and literally smothered in anti-aging serums, free radical cream, oxygen facials, European  facials, lipo cream, acid peels, sun block, cucumber eye pads, waxing hairs, sugaring hairs, lasers, and threading. From pan to Mac to Leeza Gibbons mineral make up. We’ve happily applied these products to our faces with little regard to what they are made of and how they will effect years down the line.

Our diets have been filled with bran and fiber, now in a colorless powder that doesn’t turn into a congealed slimy mass when added to water or juice. We had eggs, then no eggs, then egg whites and now eggs are cool again. Cholesterol, the good cholesterol and bad cholesterol…people falling out when they removed all cholesterol from there dietary intake. What they neglected to tell us was that our bodies naturally make cholesterol as part of our defense mechanism to protect our arteries when under stress. In addition to this we’ve been delivered a bill of goods that states “cholesterol causes heart disease”…this is a bit of mythological fiction…but then again I might have it wrong. Vitamin E, antioxidants, pomegranate, blue berries and acia berries (the new wonder berry) all hailed as the next coming for anti-aging.

We had fat sucked out, fat cut out, been nipped and tucked, noses reduced, faces and breasts augmented and aligned. We’ve been tortured and run the gambit of Grapefruit, Weight Watchers, Scarsdale, Atkins, South Beach, Jenny Craig, Cookie and wait for it… drum roll please, “the chocolate diets.” Speed, killer Phen-phen, colonics, stomach bands, modified gastric by passes. Aerobics, treadmills, kick boxing, spin classes, elliptical machines, power yoga, ball, pilates and zumba all have been introduced to help us achieve our desired look and achieve the goal set by the beauty bar.  who set the standard?…anywho, it’s all to the power of good.

To replace the hormone or not replace hormones that has been the question! 40 years old is the new 30…in looks. 50 is now the new 40. 60 is the new 50 and at 70 you realize it you’ve been fed a lot all bull by some extraordinary ingenious marketers, who have somehow tapped into our deepest darkest vulnerabilities and insecurities; aging and dying. Ha! Like that’s not going to happen anyway. And of course somethings never change...or not in my life time at any rate, size 8 is still the socially acceptable dress size.

I have a question, in fact I have four questions, is 20 years old now the new 10 and is that what's wrong with kids today? Because from what I can see most 10 year olds act like they’re 10 going on 30! Does any of the stuff that we choose to subject ourselves to really make us younger in the long run? Will you, will I live longer as a result? And who the hell invented Viagra anyway?  And last but not least who set the standard?  I’ll continue my ramblings on Beauty Bar in next week’s blog.