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[studiojimi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

[Barry Hufker]

Wow!  A film based on the photos of my ex-wives!

Barry

[danickstr]

What is amazing to me about that is how many lovely faces have such dissimilar architectures about them.

So many different types of female beauty.  

The irony about women is that so many of them are beautiful.  But if you share that you feel that way, they do not seem to like it.


I briefly checked out the game Second Life, and I came to the conclusion that our society needs a different level of cosmetic alteration capability.  Everyone seemed to pick beautiful people.

I know that so many of you will argue with me, and that is your prerogative.

But it would solve so many jealousy issues to be able to look like anyone you wanted.  

Imagine you wife looking like Mona Lisa one night and Lady Godiva the next.

I could go for that.

[thedoc]

After you tell her that, I will send flowers to your service.

1:07 and 1:28 worked.

[Jessica A. Engle]

danickstr wrote on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:49

...to be able to look like anyone you wanted.

Ohh, I guess I should represent and say something here.

I can only speak for myself, and it's probably best you keep that in mind because I find most women are not like me in this respect.

I never wore makeup, not even a little bit.  And I probably *should* have, by most people's standards, because my skin (esp. on my face) was quite, er... afflicted.  Nowadays I take care of it by means of a doctor. (Now I am fine, but I still don't wear makeup).  

I never understood why all the girls who were already, to my eyes, so fair looking, tried so hard to change how they looked.  Always trying to look like someone else... whoever was popular on TV at the time, perhaps.  Many of the girls would even go to the tanning salons, and come back looking (to my eyes) like a leathery, dried tomato.

I was never happy with the way I looked, but couldn't understand why they felt the same way.  Now, I don't have any qualms about myself (physically) and guess what fellas, I am 5'4" and weigh 170lbs.  That's the honest truth, and I am not self conscious about it one bit.  Truly!  (I know what you're all thinking.... "she's trying to trick us!  Don't say anything, because it will never be the "right" thing!)

I suppose that even if I didn't like the way I looked, if I could accept it as unique, then that should be what I define as "beauty".  Unique = beauty.  Get it?  

An example: imagine the person who'se personality you admire the most.  It doesn't have to be a man or a woman, just someone who you like for what they are on the inside.  Now imagine if everyone tried to be the same on the inside as that person.  Doesn't that seem to cancel out what makes people worth knowing in the first place?  Their inner uniqueness?  So why should outer uniqueness be so bad when inner uniqueness is so valuable to us?

We like people on the inside for their uniqueness, so why do we try to like people on the outside for their capacity for conformity?  I don't understand why anyone would want to look just like the "other" girls.  

And like I said, I realize that how I see it is NOT how a lot of women see it.  I have grown to accept and value how I am on the outside, in the hopes that if someone admires me it will be for my uniqueness rather than my conformity.

That was my best attempt at being 'girly'.... how'd I do?

-Jess

[studiojimi]

Jessica A. Engle wrote on Sun, 27 May 2007 17:03

danickstr wrote on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:49  ...to be able to look like anyone you wanted.   That was my best attempt at being 'girly'.... how'd I do? -Jess

you have the right stuff

[maxim]

"...in the hopes that if someone admires me it will be for my uniqueness rather than my conformity."

you're on the right track

anyone can get laid (well, almost...), but if you want to stay with someone for 50 years plus, attributes other than fake tan come into play

personally, anything fake, be it boobs, tan or eyelashes is like a warning sign to me

if someone doesn't want you for who you are, you don't want to be with them...

[Careful Collapse]

maxim wrote on Sun, 27 May 2007 21:44

personally, anything fake, be it boobs, tan or eyelashes is like a warning sign to me

That's how I feel.  Although I think a real tan is usually a sign of some hardcore superficiality.  Horray cancer

[danickstr]

Thanks for your frankness Jessica.

Freedom in how we look is just another way that genetics will enable the human psyche to realize itself in the future.

It is coming and those of you who think it is silly will not have to partake of its offerings.

Why do you think people want to go to heaven when they die? To be perfect.  Breast jobs and nose jobs have given people happiness to "perfect" those parts of their body.

Its in the eye of the beholder.  I happen to prefer Rubenesqueness. Other guys like twiggy models.

I don't believe in heaven so I am more concerned with creating a heaven in this lifetime.

Do I think superficial cosmetic changes are a good idea? Yes, I says, I do.

They allow people who can't work through it to overcome it.

I would prefer that they were wrought from genetic changes rather than medieval cutting and sucking or stuffing methodologies.

[maxdimario]

nice video..

that looks like my ideal girlfriend..the whole video.

... keep in mind that before trains, planes and automobiles different races looked even more different than they do now because of lack of interbreeding AND that humans have changed physically in the last 500 years.

those features which LOOK as if they are blown out of proportion were most likely lifelike reproductions to a point..

people were also shorter and had different body-shape 500 years ago.

[Annie]

danickstr wrote on Sun, 27 May 2007 02:49

..our society needs a different level of cosmetic alteration capability.  Everyone seemed to pick beautiful people.

i agree.  

i'm at a loss when someone (usually a girlfriend) is oogling another.  Honestly, I haven't a shred of attraction to someone until a conversation has taken place.  

Maybe i've been with my husband too long and my perception changed.  If the mental stimulation is missing, there's no chance at the physical.  

Then again, I'm a naturally pretty neo-nerd.  So maybe I have the luxury of a choice.

Not sure I'd be painted tho, I'm not white enough.  Small or large, that is one thing all these paintings seem to have in common.

[rankus]

Purely artistic observation:

Almost all of those paintings depict straight noses and wide set eyes.... Seems to be a common theme in "beauty" throughout the ages?   hmmmmm

[danickstr]

i think you are joking Annie but for the record these paintings were almost entirely commissioned, so they were painted of the people who could afford them in their time, which would have been an almost exclusively white bread constituency.

[maxdimario]

BEAUTY EXISTS.

There are different types, of course.