78% of 18 year old women are unhappy with their bodies and this is probably a large part of the reason why… YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Starved of a Realistic Female Body Image? Flesh & Curves this way…
Hi there. Don’t be shy, yes that’s a boobie and a curvy waist you just saw, we’re going to be looking at a lot of those in a moment. For a few minutes today, I thought I’d give you a little time-out from what we’re used to being brainwashed with exposed to all over the…
This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter recently attracting renewed criticism of Barbie’s unrealistic body. The thing is, I was kind of obsessed with Barbie myself. I played for hours with those six-inch pieces of plastic, creating unnecessary drama with Ken and cruising around my bathroom in…
Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach, thigh and torso-slimming garment was worn by just about every woman until the 1960s and was cleverly advertised using all types of tactics including before & afters photographs and peer pressure. The trickeries of the before & after format…
At first, seeing these celebrated paintings which have been photoshopped by Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano, would probably leave many women feeling a little disheartened. Isn’t there enough worshiping of the skinny female frame today? Must we manipulate the only form of art left in the world that still honours the beauty of a curvaceous…
I‘m kind of excited about these videos I found today. By now, you probably know where I stand on beauty culture and body image and so I’ll let some other people do the talking this time round. This first video link is called “Beauty Culture”, a documentary that has been selected to appear at the…
You could say I have history of dismissing style bloggers that spend half their time doing photo shoots of themselves. But with this one, I’ll bend the rules a little. Is it because she’s not the typical size of a fashion blogger? Admittedly, it’s what first caught my eye, but that’s just skimming the…
Confessions of a Girl on a Teeny Weeny Bikini Mission I have to get something off my chest. But I’m afraid your opinion of me may be slightly altered by what I am about to tell you. After much careful consideration, agonizing thought and deliberation, I have decided to go on a little d ……
How many images do you think you’ve looked at so far today and without realizing the connection, felt less inclined to eat that lovely sandwich your stomach has been groaning for all morning? For every perfectly smooth-skinned celebrity you’ve seen in the latest beauty campaigns, are you edging closer towards buying an anti-wrinkle cream that…
“Poses” is the project of spanish artist, Yolanda Dominguez, whose work I’ve been keeping in my vault of goodies for quite a while. In an unapologetic criticism of the absurdity of the fashion industry, Yiolanda uses a group of real women in real life settings to imitate several photographs found in fashion magazine editorials. In…
