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Vale The Organic Face

Written: 17th Jul 2008 | Last Updated: 17th Jul 2008

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Where oh where did we go so wrong, my lovelies?

Last century, generally only aging movie stars, models, celebrities and blue-blooded society mavens (i.e. the rich, vain, famous) regularly went under the knife in pursuit of the fountain of youth. Now, it’s a rampant Democratically Transmitted Disease filtering down from the world of entertainment to the cashed-up masses: TV talking-heads, soap-opera cast members, pop stars, lawyers, yummy-mummies, CEOs, fashion designers, PR consultants, real estate agents, shopgirls, athletes…anybody and everybody’s jumping on the fantastic-plastic bandwagon searching for who they used to be, who they used to think they were or who they believe they’re entitled to be via surgical and/or chemical 'enhancements'.

But what I don't get about this ugly new beauty standard is this: can’t these people (I want to write 'victims') actually SEE what’s happening to them? Don’t they notice that their organic, unique & magnetic looks have been serially stripped and replaced by generic, slant-eyed, waxy and weird visages punctuated by overly-arched brows, too-tight cheeks and ridiculously puffed mouths? Perhaps a very few have the excuse of being too-often blinded by paparazzi flashes, but most have been duped by the echoing ‘everybody does it’, and tricked by hungry/warped stares into their own reflections.

In today’s internet news, Madonna’s estranged brother is quoted as saying he doesn’t recognise his singer sister since her recent facelift. Indeed, Madam M is looking a lot more like all those other Hollywood Blondes, only more sinewy...and maybe more afraid. Insecurity is not a good look at the best of times, but insecurity in a taut, transparent plastic wrapper? Yuk! And of course, once sliced-diced-injected again and again, Madonna, Nicole, Kylie, Dannii, Demi, Gillian et al can never restore their original arresting qualities. Surgeons don't manufacture the little quirks, the glorious genetic aberrations that make faces and bodies so spectacular; they want everything to be perfect. BIG mistake!

Oh, lovelies...look at what you’ve done! Look how gorgeous you were before! And look at how the silly world follows.

The organic face is dead.

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