As Shallow As I Wanna Be

A recurring theme in my blog and life is my love/hate relationship with beauty, or the cultural definition anyway. On the one hand, I rant about the pressure to live up to impossible ideals (see earlier entry). On the other, nothing boosts your ego like seeing pictures of celebs in white trash mode a la Britney Spears. The other night I watched Black.White and was amazed they don't touch up the people's skin more. You could say acne breakouts are realistic or just kinda gross. Either way, you don't see much of that on TV. There was never a single zit in West Beverly High. They may have had every STD known to man, but pimples were not a problem.

Every so often, you have to indulge your catty side. We love to put celebrities on pedestals, but we also like to knock them off again. It's a guilty pleasure.

PS: J. K. Rowling has an awesome blog entry on this topic. Rock on!
PPS: If you need your own visual pick-me-up go to www.fluideffect.com. Check out the before and after gallery (hold down on the word Before). Also check out http://glennferon.com. It's like magic!