10 articles that will help love your body
In the last decade new, yet unusual ideas about beauty are being formed. The most interesting thing is that these ideas change with the help of the women themselves, whose voice is getting louder. Now, inner comfort is more important than the concept of attractiveness, and how you feel yourself is more important than the expectations of society. We have selected ten articles on how to take our appearance or consciously approach the issue of its change, as well as how diversity has become more important than fashion and why any body is beautiful.
How to find yourself in the history of beauty
The main word of recent times can be considered not “selfie”, but “diversity” - now they speak about diversity not only at a sermon, but also from magazines. Nevertheless, the history of world culture shows that the diversity of beauty was always, however, it was true, in the eyes of the beholder, and the mouthpiece was in the power of those to whom it was more profitable. As our heroine Iris Apfel said, "in a society where there is one standard of beauty, there is something wrong with culture." To accept this, stop listening to those who argue the opposite, and love yourself, it is enough to peer into each person - a unique representative of diversity from the beginning of time.
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Topic opened: How we won the right to our breasts
The role of women in society almost at all times put her in a position where her breasts did not belong to herself: a child, a man, a family, an aesthetic norm, dictates fashion, the porn industry, the medical community - all of them separately and taken together declared their right to breastfeeding And today we have a chance to reclaim our breasts. Not to deny her to a man or her child, to ignore the existing dress codes or instructions of doctors. And in order to make any decision consciously and in harmony with our will. Including when it comes to choosing clothes.
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Body Fascism: Why We Judge People by Appearance
The fact that you have been cheating on your boyfriend for years, you are stealing papa’s antidepressants and buying stolen goods, people around you may not guess. But habits or physiology, which are reflected in appearance, give reason for any sleepy passer to give you an assessment. Your colleague may be lazy to visit his lonely grandmother. Even if it turns out, you will most likely come to the idea that it is his business. Why is the discussion of "laziness", which prevents to go to the gym, suddenly became a common place and such a popular object of criticism?
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Why, in pursuit of beauty, intolerance is born
Tolerance is not born, but it grows up. In order to drown out and rehabilitate the inner voice, which, besides our will, sometimes notices "wow, what cellulite" or "wow legs", you need to put in efforts - however, tolerance and understanding come much faster than you would expect.
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Why the new face of Renee Zellweger is no reason to condemn
The Hollywood industry, without any doubt, puts tremendous pressure on actors and especially actresses: even those that “grow old beautifully” (a favorite figure of twenty-year-olds, from which those who even know a little about the subject want to beat their heads against the table) resort to cosmetology tricks, because aging - let's be honest - is not a very beautiful thing. Yes, our beloved Susan Sarandon, Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Lang are not limited to homemade masks from yogurt - they just have excellent doctors and an impeccable sense of proportion.
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Girls and boys after plastics and appearance changes
Photographer Michelle Sank took a series of pictures "In My Skin" - it is dedicated to young people who have problems with the perception of their appearance. First of all, it is those who turn to plastic surgeries in order to change the outlines of their face and body and bring them into line with their personal ideas about beauty. At first, Sank was repelled by the idea of removing those who did or plans to do plastic, but then she was interested in the topics of transgenderness and eating disorders, which are also related to the perception of her body and beauty.
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What is the relationship between beauty and health
At the beginning of the last century, evolutionary scientists Westermark and Ellis began to think about how ideas of attractiveness are connected with health. They considered that we consider some external signs of health to be beautiful, because we are subconsciously looking for the most "quality" partner - including the one with whom healthy children will turn out. Recent studies claim that, in evaluating appearance, we take into account only fertility, and not general health - a girl with a healthy gastrointestinal tract does not seem to us more attractive than a girl with gastritis.
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Amalia Ulman on plastic surgery for the sake of art
Breast augmentation operations, half-naked selfies on instagram and statuses with lyrics from Iggy Azalea's songs - maybe not every one of us did something like that, but such actions are hardly considered something unusual, and especially nobody takes photos in social media. networks as a work of art. No one except Amalia Ulman is a graduate of Central Saint Martins and an artist who makes barely noticeable plastic surgery and turns her life into an endless performance in order to study the modern attitude towards appearance, status and sex.
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Make me beautiful: How to retouch photos
If traditional models, as a rule, do not need special corrections, either a figure or a skin (such is their work), then photographs of celebrities are the main stumbling block. Constant rejuvenation and reduction of asses when processing their pictures usually reinforce the effects of plastic surgery and serious cosmetology, feeding the Hollywood cult of eternal youth. The illusiveness of what is happening in the photo industry is obvious to its employees, but not to the majority of consumers of glossy (and not only) magazines. We asked the Bespoke Pixel bureau retouchers to designate what one should know and keep in mind to everyone who opens a fashion magazine or website.
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Unreal beautiful: Famous men before and after photoshop
It is believed that women suffer most from stereotypes about beauty: advertising, fashion shoots and even models in online stores intrusively hint to us that a beautiful woman is the holder of the 90-60-90 standard, excessively long legs, mane of hair and flawless skin, often "refined" by retouchers to an unbelievable look. However, if we look closer, we find that men also get from Photoshop - it's just believed that they are less worried about their appearance. We collected a few vivid examples of how retouchers decided to "decorate" already beautiful and famous men to their own taste, and found their "real" photos taken at the same time.
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