Monday 30 May 2011

Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance.




This program is currently being shown on channel 4. The well known Super Nanny Jo Frost sets out to help parents and there children get over their weaknesses. What i would like to focus on is the first episode of the program were Jo Frost helps an eleven year old girl get her confidence back about her appearance. The Girl, Bronwyn has huge issues with her whole appearance and critically compares herself to the celebrities and models she sees in magazines. Along with this Browyn wont leave the house without spending two hours doing her hair and make-up. This shocks me because I have a sister that is eleven years old and thankfully she has not hit the stage of being weary if her hair is out of place. At the age of eleven there still at primary school. I personally didn't start wearing makeup until i was 14, to me this shows how society has changed, and how girls are becoming more critical of themselves so early in there life.

Bronwyn spends huge amounts of money on cleansers, exfoliater's and moisturizers that women use, i don't even spend money on products like this as i find facial wipes take makeup off and clean my skin just as good.

Watching this program gave me a real insight into the way come young girls think about themself, even today i feel theres almost a huge competition to try and look better then somebody else. Knowing this i feel quite angry that this is how women feel, they cant just be themselves.

Towards the end of the episode Jo frost take Bronwyn to a photoshoot were both Bronwyn and Jo Frost have there photos taken. With Jo's photos they edit them so she looks younger, slimmer and healthier. Showing how they edit photos to Bronwyn makes her think that the women shes been looking at in magazines aren't reality, they have there less imperfect parts just like anyone else, but they've been edit so we feel like we can look up to them.


Tuesday 17 May 2011

The Eight Year Old That Was Being Given Botox.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387671/Kerry-Campbell-gave-daughter-Britney-8-botox-loses-social-services.html

The only thing i can say about this is that its SICK.

A British mother who admitted on American TV that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections has had the child taken away by social workers.
Britney Campbell was removed from the care of her mother Kerry after the TV appearance boasting about the beauty treatment sparked outrage across the U.S.
Hundreds of complaints were received when she was featured on the Good Morning America show injecting her daughter with the anti-wrinkle treatment.

Shocking: Kerry marks Britney's face before injecting her with Botox
'I want her to have the best start in life'
Campbell, a part-time beautician, claimed she got the idea for Botox from other mothers whose children compete in beauty pageants.

"Dermatologists and child psychology experts said that injecting Botox into a child is clearly unhealthy and ill advised"



Beauty Pageants

  • A competition bases on mainly physical beauty of its contestants, although such contest of ten incorporate personalty, talent and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria. 
  • Phrase refers to only women.
  • Winners of beauty contests are often called "Beauty Queens". 
  • Critics of beauty contests reinforce the idea that (usually young) women should be valued primarily for their physical appearance and that it puts tremendous pressure on women to "be beautiful" by spending time and money on fashion, cosmetics, hairstyling and cosmetic surgery.
Child Beauty Pageants:
  •  A beauty pageant contest feauring contestants under the ages of 18 in most cases. Divisions include talent, interview, sportswear (children can be aged as young as 5), casual wear, western wear, theme wear.... 
  • They wear makeup as well as elaborated hair styles. 
  • The most cited reason parents give for putting their children into beauty pageants is to boost their childrens self as teem.
  • In 2005 a small group of 11 women who had competed in beauty pageants were compared to 11 women who had not entered any pageants were generally happier with their appearance whereas those who did were dissatisfied with their appearance.

 

Sorry but would a child that young really be worry about how dirty her nails are or that shes lost her lippy or that hee curlers are broke? NO.

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    Oliver Cromwell: "Warts And All"



    "Warts And All" : The whole thing; not concealing the less attractive parts.

    The phrase is said to derive from Oliver Cromrwell's instructions to the painter Sir Peter Lely when commissioning a portrait. Lely's style of painting was normally intended to flatter the sitter- to show then in their best possible light. A;though Cromwell asked Lely to paint every part of him - roughness, pimples and warts.
    Oliver Cromwell- warts and all


    This shows how for centuries we've been so ignorant to reality, the fact that Cromwell had to ask Lely to paint his blemishes shows how people were in some way embarrassed about the way they looked or there was always competition.

    When Photoshop goes bad: some of the best gaffes

    When Photoshop goes bad: some of the best gaffes.

     Iran was caught out after it apparently doctored images of a multiple missile launch to hide the fact that one of them failed to go off.


     

    Alesha Dixon : Look But Don't Touch

    TV programme from 2008.

    “I look forward to investigating and challenging our perception of female beauty in 21st century Britain. The image of the female form is becoming increasingly divorced from reality, and I want to make people aware of the pressure society is subjecting us girls to.” 

    Quote from Alesha Dixon

    The TV programme is about trying to understand the impact that all the "perfect" images have on our society. 
    In the programme she tries to find a magazine that would but her on their front cover without any editing or "touch-ups".