WHY MODELS
Pink is back in all its glory and in keeping with this fashion revival we pick some beauty products that pack a punch and are pretty too. DON’T SMILE
Bvlgari Splendida Rose Rose 100ml EDP, R2 115 Elizabeth Arden Beautiful Color Bold Liquid Lipstick in Seductive Magenta, R295 Morgan Taylor Professional Nail Lacquer in Be Our Guest, R150 MAC Work It Out Crystal Glaze Gloss in Sixxx Pack, R270 Dolce & Gabbana Miss Silicy Lipstick in 200 Rosa, R625 OU can’t please all the people all of the time. Just ask Dove. For years women flocked to buy Dove because it was a brand that embraced their curves and their inner beauty with a message of hope. Finally, a major beauty brand was breaking the hold the “media” had ostensibly created on people’s perceptions of beauty.
Now, however, it is suffering a backlash of sorts. Limited-edition bottles of Dove product designed to reflect all these wonderfully diverse body shapes appear to have taken the “body positive” message a step too far for comfort. Women do not want to be told their shape might resemble a bottle! They have been telling Dove all about it on social media.
I have been thinking about this because, like Dove, we too received a letter of complaint. Why are the models on our fashion pages perennially glum, the reader wanted to know? Why no smiles? Our reader helpfully created a collage of all these unhappy women to make her point. She had a point — the models weren’t exactly bubbling over with joie de vivre.
What could the reason for this uniform grumpiness be? Well, apart from being told not to smile by the fashion editors, stylists and photographers, it could be any number of reasons. Perhaps the models are upset because they have unwittingly become the poster girls for anorexia. And, apparently the “media” is starving them anyway, so it is hard to smile when you are thinking