Tag: beauty

  • Crest Smile – UPDATE

    If you support this, you can now vote or comment HERE! Thank you Crest for approving the submission after all! 🙂

    No song today, I have the flu and need to catch up on some sleeping, so have a beauuutiful day all!

  • For better & for worse

    Last week on my way to work, I bumped into the latest exotica campaign for mother's day. It showed a mother and daughter with huge ear, and the slogan was "For the good and the bar, thank you Mom". Oh my! Where have their chic visuals gone?

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    Then few meters later, another, except this time mother and daughter have oversized noses. "Hmm.. Are they seriously profiling certain physical traits as BAD?"

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    Class Setting. Lebanese Society 101. "In the look-obsessed country we live in, we often see scenarios as follows".

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    This campaign reinforces the complexes a lot of young girls have about how they look. Now, they might start blaming their mothers for genetic inheritance, instead of them understanding that a big nose -ear is actually, NOT, bad.

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    .If I want to associate their slogan with a visual, it would not be as funny. Billboard showing mother beating child.

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    Or... HIV positive mother and daughter

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    As you can see, there are far worse things a mother could give to her children than a big nose - ear. Things they, in fact, could never possibly thank her for. In all cases, I have one thing to say: Thank you Exotica for the good and the bad! ;) In the hope the next campaign will catch up!

    You might say I am overreacting. However, the reason I am, is because I believe huge billboards have great influence on the large amount of people who cross them daily. Big corporations should thus think twice before shouting such messages at us. And I do know that “it got people talking about it”, but wouldn’t it be better if it also, on the way, got through a more responsible message?

    Anyway, I just had to say what I think about this campaign, it’s been bothering me everyday when I pass by it. Now, back to music, here’s Sarah Vaughn’s Broken Hearted Melody. Have a wonderful day 🙂

  • On gender unfairness

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    2-major-burden

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    3-women

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    4-eyebrow-plucking

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    5-ouch-ouch

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    6-mask-cucumber

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    7-sacrifice

    And the next day I came to work to find out that he removed it… men! If you think about what the lebanese society’s obsession inflicts on humans who are born women on the “socially-acceptable-beauty” level and compare it to what it inflicts on men, you find yet another proof of gender unfairness… Anyway, let’s not worry about that now. Hope you all have a lovely week-end! 😀

  • Beauty and sufferings

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    3-work

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    4-no-way

    5-my-colleagues

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    6-cant-see

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    7-where-am-i

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    8-question-mark

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    9-nail-cavalry

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    10-nails

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    11-anti-cerne

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    12-blush-tsunami

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    13-who-am-i

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    14-save-the-day

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    And that, my darlings, is the story that happened right before the interview for the reportage with al horra. I want to thank my colleagues through this post for their constant support! You’ve been wonderful! Now regarding al horra, it was supposed to broadcast the interview today but someone decided to make elections in Iran (since when are international politics more important than the blog? 😛 ) So i guess it’s postponed till later. I’ll keep you updated anyway. Now the moral we can retrieve from this story, or the questions we can ask ourselves: who cares about make-up and anti-cerne and whatnot. Honestly, I had never used those tools before my colleagues inflicted them on me 🙂 … It felt kind of weird, I personally don’t believe femininity lies in make-up or in colors. It lies in expressions, behavior, actions. I wish more girls in Lebanon would follow this belief!