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The Beauty Calibrator. How do you rate?

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:01 PM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: The New Yorker
health, beauty, womens-health, makeup, max-factor
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Order your Beauty Calibrator, exclusively by Max Factor. Measure over 300 points on your face to see how you rate.

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That is so pathetic. I have never been prouder to be against the beauty industry. what a waste of money, time, and effort after effort to still never add up because after all, we all have flaws which the industry who pushes "flawlessness" use to warp us. Perfection is creepy and unnatural. It's interesting looking people who catch my eye more than typically beautiful ones.

You think this metal face cage is creepy? Try looking at a woman's face that hasn't healed yet after plastic surgery. Perfectly healthy women going in to get sliced open, letting some greedy doctor break your nose so you can be pretty. It's totally shameful and I don't care about the "personal fulfillment" reason, but it is each person's choice. Still when you have been brainwashed over and over by the same companies it's hard to say a woman has a real choice. They equate beauty with our worth and then make it impossible to attain it so there's an endless quest to find it. Just watch a few of these commercials in a row and you will see the message if you haven't before.

Advertising has always used basic psychology to sell products, even if you don't think you are receiving a message you really are or they wouldn't spend billions to reach a few. Ads work, and beauty ads are some of the craftiest around. Maybe she's born with it? Maybe it's mabeline....to hell with you I AM born with it.

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