Who is to Blame for All the Fake Looks Around Us?

The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)

27 May 2011

opinion

It’s understood and pretty acceptable for women to adorn and prettify themselves. We do everything from putting on makeup, to ‘growing’ fake hair, lashes, nails or altering the skin colour.

Sometimes even use things that didn’t exactly come from us, like fake hips, fake boobs and fake behinds.

A fan wrote me an email registering his disappointment on how the modern woman is becoming too fake.

“It’s like looking at a woman made in china,” he complained.

According to him natural beauty has not only lost its meaning but it has actually become extinct.

“Look around, every woman you meet has a fake thing on, either it’s her hair, eye colour, eye lashes, nails, the hips, the breasts or in other cases everything about her is fake and I do not find them beautiful,” he exclaimed.

Most men like this reader will say they prefer a natural beauty and they like you as you are.

The truth is that they will drool and ogle at every fake boob and booty, hairpiece that comes slashing by. We see it on TV, magazines, on the street, something that makes one feel that the faker you are the more appealing you are to men.

Yesterday, I read a certain blog that declared Nicki Minaj as the queen of great body curves. All the men rated her as the woman with the hottest body despite the fact that even a blind man can ‘see’ she is as fake as the rest.

We are so visual and it’s getting hard for women to find a man who appreciates natural beauty .Women go to great lengths to catch a man’s eye, even beautiful women have given in to the fake Looks and even fake clothes for the so-called fashionistas.

I remember this young girl at my place of work;I have never understood why her eyelashes had to be an inch long. I guess it was a personal preference but then she would draw her eyebrows all the way down to the corner of her eyes.

Her make-up was always extremely over done and highly exaggerated and her fashion sense belonged to another planet.

She was the laughing stock, something that made me sad and I can’t believe that she didn’t hear the laughter. My personal opinion is that her “image” of what’s attractive was distorted.

Media images of what’s attractive have had a profound effect, big behinds, tiny waist and big breasts are the trend of beauty and everyone is striving for that through surgeries.

I do not mind fake lashes and nails to enhance ones appearance, what bothers me is the extremes some have to go to. I wonder what a woman thinks when she is going to a traditional doctor to enhance her hips or grow her breast.

I have no idea how the fake hips and breasts works and I am very curious. I have seen the advertisements all over the town but someone should provide closure on how they work.

A reader tells me of a lady in their estate he admired a lot, she boasted of her natural beauty, with her medium sized breasts, chocolate colour and kinky hair she was a beauty to reckon with.

Now with a lace wig, green eyes, and ridiculous huge hips she looks like a product made in the Far East.

Blame it on society and the media that is what they says but the bottom line is all about self-esteem.

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