Everything from hips to skin pigmentation – even complete decades — go missing in these, rather infamous, photoshoped images shared by Newsweek.
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Ugly produces pretty in some of the image in this Newsweek feature. A photo gallery of some of the more intriguing looking beauty gadgets and procedures out there.
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This collection of pictures from Newsweek’s beauty feature serves to remind us of the important notion that what is considered beautiful can vary from one place or culture to the next. And sometimes the pursuit of a particular appearance ideal can invovle pain, discomfort, and risk.
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How much money do women spend on maintaining their looks at different stages of their lives? The Beauty Breakdown is an interactive feature which crunches the numbers and offers up some dollar possibilities.
For details about how Newsweek estimated these dollar amounts, view the pdf for a complete price breakdown and read the Editor’s Note.
Personally, I didn’t find the numbers so accurate and it’s not like I just emerged from under the anti-beauty rock. Is it not a rather uncommon thing to start getting lip fillers at age 25?. And does a girl really, from the ages of 8 to 12, spend over $7,000 on beauty? Really? Surely, you would agree that some of these things are rather anomalous.
Let’s assume you do. The more interesting question is this: why would these numbers (how much women spend on beauty) be exagerated? To make a better story? Maybe or maybe not. Newsweek cites these numbers from outside sources. Perhaps, then, to make women think they ought to be spending that much on their looks? Cosmetic companies and surgical offices would certainly have a vested interest in this. Just a thought.
And one more thing.
Maybe the spending on Restylane as a wrinkle filler wouldn’t be so high in the 30-49 age group if spending on indoor tanning hadn’t been so high in the 13-29 age group. Just sayin’.
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More from Newsweek. Keeping with the visual theme, this interactive feature pictures faces of some of the world’s beauties morphing into one another, along a chronological timeline. To check it out, click the image below. When you arrive at Newsweek’s site, click the woman’s face on the right hand side of the screen.
I found the most interesting part to be the “in-between” faces, which are a blend of two faces morphed into one. Here’s a picture from the feature of Naomi Campbell blended with Julia Roberts:
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Perhaps the most extensive cluster of beauty-related information in the media in a while comes from Newsweek magazine. They’ve just published a great feature — The Beauty Advantage — which is chock-full of intriguing articles, interactive features, and slide shows about beauty. The special is exactly what this blog is about: thinking critically about what beauty really is, how it affects us, what research can explain about it.
Because it is such an extensive feature, I will present each aspect of what Newsweek has published about beauty in separate posts so you can be sure you’ve seen and read it all.
I am a very visual person in how I learn, and in what I am intrigued by, and chances are, if you are reading this blog you might be, too. So, I’ll start with linking to their collection of 14 beauty advertisements from the past right up until today.
A Century of Outrageous Beauty Ads
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The likes of Aphrodite and Venus aren’t just coaxing me out of blogosphere non-existence, they are pushing me out into a rough sea of media articles and academic studies about beauty. I can barely keep my head above water in all that has emerged on beauty lately.
As easy on the eyes as you may think Paul Newman is in the photo below, which has lingered as my last post for far too long, it’s time to put pen to paper (and fingers to keys) and get on with it.
Stop. Sit. Blog.
Enjoy.
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“To work hard, as I’ve worked, to accomplish anything, and then have some yo-yo come up and say, ‘Take off those dark glasses and let’s have a look at those blue eyes’ is really discouraging.” - Paul Newman
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Did you know that the difference between yearly wages of tall and short men works out to about $1000 per inch?
There is an interesting documentary called “S&M: Short and Male” about the trials and tribulations of men who are height-challenged. If you’re a local reader the documentary is on tonight on CTV. You can read all about it here.
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