Hello Dolls- It's 3 for Thursday... It's starting to feel like fall and time to bust out the fall clothes, well here are a few of my favorite fall trends.
Can we just take a minute to talk about how amazing the Missoni for Target collection is? It's moderately price and fabulous! ($30 for pillows, $13 for towels, dishes from $3-$20), Seriously I'm drooling. It hits stores TODAY! I can't wait to check it out! Here are some of my favorites!
Can beauty be defined by age, gender, color, body shape or size?
More IMPORTANTLYwho gets to decide?
The media tends to play a MASSIVE role in defining what a woman should be like.
The fact is sex sells, especially a sexy woman.
They take a naturally beautiful girl and photoshop her to be their version of "perfect"
(see Britney photo)
I mean they erased her cellulite-- gosh forbid a woman with 2 kids would have cellulite!
This leads young girls into believing that what they see on a magazine is natural, and thats what they need to look like.
Which puts more pressure on girls.
Some of which turn to plastic surgery...
"Researchers report that women’s magazines have ten and one-half times more ads and articles promoting weight loss than men’s magazines do, and over three-quarters of the covers of women’s magazines include at least one message about how to change a woman’s bodily appearance—by diet, exercise or cosmetic surgery."
FACT: It is estimated that the diet industry alone is worth anywhere between 40 to 100 billion
BILLIONS DOLLARS a YEAR is going to tell us we aren't good enough?!!? WOW!
"The average size for a woman in this country is a 12, so technically, "plus-sized" starts at 14. In the modeling industry, however, models larger than a size 4 usually find more work doing plus-sized." Larger than a size 4 are youkiddingme?! And let's discuss this whole "plus-sized" term; Could anything sound MORE degrading?! The fact IS you CAN be healthy and beautiful without being a size 4. It's ideas like this that causes eating disorders, such as bulimia or anorexia.In fact One out of every 100 adolescent girls has the disorder.Approximately 95% of those affected by anorexia are female, most often teenage girls, but males can develop the disorder as well. Maybe our country as a WHOLE needs to start thinking this way: "plus-sized" is just average-sized, healthy women. Just like straight size models, who represent average women, are much, much smaller; plus-sized models are not actually plus-sized women, we're just bigger than the average model.
This PLUS SIZE bra AD was banned from TV recently for being "too sexy"
REALLY?!?!
BUT THIS ISNT "TOO SEXY"....
ridiculous. absolutely ridiculous.
Listen up girls- you ARE beautiful no matter what size, race, age you are! If your curvy- embrace it! If your skinny- EMBACE IT! Love yourself for WHO YOU ARE. Thats more important. XO- D
I have a question...
When did being classy go out of style and being slutty become the norm?
It absolutely drives me crazy that girls think they have to be slutty to be sexy...
well listen up ladies- being Sexy is all about confidence in yourself. No matter what shape or size you are. Its about loving and believing in yourself when the rest of the world doesn't.
Which makes me wonder...
Where did the Class of Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor go?
At the VMA's Reese Witherspoon has some great advice: “I just want to say to all the girls out there that I know it’s cool to be bad, I get it, it’s cool to be bad. But it is possible to make it in Hollywood without doing a reality show. When I came up in this business, if you made a sex tape, you were embarrassed and you hid it under the bed. And if you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face people! Hide your face! So for all the girls out there, it’s possible to be a good girl, and I’m going to try and make it cool.”
~Thank you Reese, for finally saying what needed to be said!
It's astonishing the length that some celebrities go to become famous, or they things they do with their fame.
While there are quite a few bad apples, its nice to see the some young Hollywood scarlets with grace and integrity.
Bethany Joy Galeotti
Rachel McAdams
Reese Witherspoon
Sophia Bush
Anne Hathaway
Mandy Moore
Ladies you don't have be a size 0 to be beautiful, nor do you have show off your lady parts to be sexy.
There's nothing wrong with leaving something to the imagination.
just be yourself, your beautiful just the way you are!
Let's Bring Classy Back
XO~ D
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