I think that everybody, and I mean every body, man or woman should have to go back to their orginal natural age appropriate hair color for the election year.
I think we ought to be supressed from wearing make-up, woman AND men. And all transfiguring undergarments. No Spanks or girdles or whatever men wear to not have love handles under their suits.
I think we ought to have to go natural and vote with a clear eye at who we are.
A lot of how we look is reliant on cash money, bought that is. Like Botox. No candidate gets to use it for 6 months prior to election year so that if you are a scowley jowly, there it is in the buff.
Nobody will look as good, but we would all look more alike. And having a few bucks would not give you executive hair, an edge that is unfair. No blow outs, no hot combs, no dye, no weaves. Just a bunch of craggy looking old geezers going at the business of politics.
I know this is a weird idea, but think on it. Wouldn't the face of politics look radically different if we had no styling products or garment structures or stylists to change what and who we are. How would your candidate hold up? How would you hold up? Would you be influenced in the same way by actors and certain politicos if you saw them out of the public drag they wear to impress?
No teeth whitening for the 6 months prior to season beginning either. Just natural teeth. And ALL implants, no matter where would have to be deflated or removed, that includes plugs, Biden!
What would this country look like if it had to go au naturale in order to get elected? I think a lot of those distinguished looking old men would suffer if they were outed as daily users of makeup and bronzers. And the ladies in the game would level the playing field amongst themselves and possibly look a lot better (Kathryn Harris!).
Maybe it was the Paris/Brit ad that sent me off on this tear. I think Obama wears lip gloss. And I know that Gramps wears something to level out his skintones.
Would it change anything if we actually knew what we were looking at?
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In any case, even though I am not in politics, I'm ready to get on the pallid barricades of this revolution. My beauty regime consists of shave, shower, and deodorant. I don't have much hair to style, hence my longstanding partnership with the #2 clippers. I don't really feel the need to be more au naturale than that, so I say bring on the brave new (if slightly saggier and blotchier) world!
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Now that it's faded, with these many years, to blond, on its way to platinum ... I get asked the same damn question. What the f*?
At 52, I'm unreasonably thrilled to have mine, regardless of the color.
My top teeth are crowned and you can't have 'em.
As to the candidates ... I give them a pass on any and every little thing they might want to do. Take it into account, if you want. But when you come right down to it, voting for someone is just a little bit like getting married to them. They woo you, you listen, you choose on faith. And maybe a lot of folks would sort of disrespect someone who didn't look their best on the big day.
It's your own personal Rick roll!
And the sad truth is, the better looking you are the easier things go for you. Now, I'm not saying things go easy for me, but that's unfortunately the way it is. I wish it wasn't. It isn't fair that it is. But there it is.
And I would never ask those with teeth implants to give them up. Too painful to even get the damn things in the first place. I can only imagine what it would feel like to have them ripped out. I don't have any myself, but as Jeff said, you can't have my crowns!
However, due to a wise choice of maternal grandfather on my part, I've got more hair than I know what to do with.
Bring it on hairy old people!
When I was young (and remember, I'm a child of the 60s) I remember telling my friend Maria, "I will be totally natural. I will never dye my hair," etc. etc., ad nauseum.
Now, well, not so much. Things look different at the other end of the continuum that they did when you were in your 20s, 30s or 40s. As long as I don't look clownish, (and I have made friends swear they will tell me when it's time to ditch the dye), I'm with Stellaa on this one. My hair stays dyed.
I think it's also possible that we might see more differences between people than we'd thought were there. Women's lips, for example, aren't all a pretty shade of red; men go bald and gray at different rates. I sometimes have to pay a good deal of attention to older movies because the standards of make-up and hair styles are not what I'm used to, and I have a hard time telling characters apart.
But you may be right. (It's hard to tell, of course, since people don't follow the rule you suggest. Yet.)
When I sweat with no deoderant, I smell of ripe mango. if you are ever around, Iwould be glad to demonstrate. But that too would be kinda weird.
Wouldn't it be great if we could all finally just find out what we smell like without all of the "product" we all use? Not really to live like that or anything, but just to see. Who the hell knows? You may smell like an exotic fruit, too!
Y'know, as long as the bathing is regular, I imagine that we could stand each other. I've always thought that about 80% of the crap that gets poured over the human body just makes the miasma worse anyway and 90% of the rest is ineffectual.
The best smelling creature on the planet is Dolly Parton. I went backstage to meet he when I was about 5. She had gone to the tour bus and I came up to the steps and she sat down on them and pulled me up into her lap. She smelled of Max Factor make-up and roses and Aqua-Net and some musky perfume that I will always remember but never know. I felt like I had met an angel and if heaven exists, I think it will smell just like that.
I aspire to smell like that for my son. I want him to have a great inage of his mom and her smell. For me it is Emeraude perfume. My mother always used that one with the owder to match. I still love that smell. My son will probably remember "Beautiful" by Estee Lauder, it was what I wore on my wedding day and it still smells perfect for my husband. I want my son to think that women really are different from men so that he will treat them differently than his buds. That is a critical part of romance for me. When I wear dresses and a little perfume, he says, "You're just like a Princess, Mama!" He is only 4 and he has a way with women, a real charmer.
I use no deodorant, and have not since I was about 12. I also use no cologne, and only soap & shampoo made from herbal ingredients. When I perspire, I smell like high-grade sinsemilla, mostly, though I have had a yoga instructor tell me he knew I was not a vegetarian from the way I smelled.
Mangoes, though, that's pretty cool.
She not only smells like heaven, but she is one of the most prolific songwriters in the world? She is very smart. Not many individuals have a whole theme park designed around their persona. I don't even think Elvis has a theme park, as Graceland has no rides.
Dolly Parton is a hero of mine.
EP - clarify, please "I don't shave". I don't either, but it's because I don't grow any hair except on my head, which does make for a fruity smelling perspiration (my bf says kiwi).
I'm going to see Cher in Vegas, she is a pretender to Dolly though she does not know it.
I just am not hairy. If I ever shave, it is my armpits about once every four months or so when I am in exercise mode. Even mangos can get too ripe if you run long enough or make pots out in an 85 degree studio long enough. I find that if I seem to want to use deoderant, one pit shave and I am good for another few months without deoderant. I am not wild about the chemicals, but I keep some around. If I am going out with Husband Jeff's boss, I use it by rote, but I don't smell bad without it.
My body hair is very sparse and blonde. Why shave it off? My legs always look like I shave, but if you get up close, it is light blonde hair.
Sometimes in the summer sun, my hair will lighten two or three shades and by mid winter I look like I have "roots". A root touch up in Miss Clairol #8 and I am back to the same color and good til spring. When it all lightens up again. I cut a 4 inch hank of my normal haircolor and matched it to the box. So that is my real color, just not the super blonde streaks and not the slightly darker winter color.
So one box of color a year and 1 stick of deoderant about every two years and an eyebrow pencil and I'm good to go.
I am seriously low maintenance.
Very traumatic...but marker washes off, heh heh.
Dark hair and red lips is very exotic. It must be cool to be exotic, something that I can never claim, not in a million years. I didn't realize it came with a hairy price!
what a great and evocative sentence!
I did short black hair and it only looked good when I wore red, red lipstick. Otherwise my face just disappeared. Exotic I am not, and I couldn't keep up with the high maintenance pretense. Too bad as I really admire the dark-headed ladies, they seem to have more substance and depth to their beauty. Red is the most natural looking color for me though my true color is medium-light brown. My grandmother and mother are red so there you go.
Although I am not hairy and have a strong sex drive. So maybe not.
Her coloring is exquisite. If only I knew what box it came in...
Have you seen Cousins? She is so heartbreakingly beautiful in it..
At 45, I have three grey haris on my head which I attribue to my Cherokee heritage. Now I can't tell what color my hair is since the teenagress made me multicolor. I like it now. if I don't later, it grows. Hey, it's hair, WTF?
"I watched the women come and go and talk of Michelangelo...do i dare to eat a peach"
is it the hairy comments or the lusting comments that you all might like to see get cleaned up?
It is like an episode of Law ans Order. It isn't really about the trial, it is about the convoluted turns that happen between the crime and Lenny knocking on your door with his badge.
Now it's daytime and I'm back, only fair I add my parts, so to speak. I'm basically a mesomorph like Sandra, lean and muscular (she's way, way more cut though). But I have round proportions, ectomorphic collarbones, tiny wrists and ankles, slim hands and feet (down, Lonnie) and a serious rack.
Always had very little body hair, just lots on my head, which turned white when I was 25. I stayed with my original dark brunette for years, am now having fun as a streaky, "paneled" blonde (Hollywood word, refers to natural wood-grained look).
No daily makeup. Never. For formal occasions, the minimum I can manage. Good genes, good skin, natural cheek roses, natural dark eyes. Comfortable with my "life lines." Really. I am. Mostly. Anyway, I try to be.
Stellaa - you described my bf PERFECTLY
And Sandra, I have great legs, they were voted "most knobbly knees" amongst the 70+ engineers on my project back in '90.
I'd say to my husband that I need to touch up my roots and he'd say "what roots?" Stopped coloring my hair and no one noticed! Damn, think of all the money I could have spent elsewhere. So now I'm gray/blond -- platinum my dear friends say. I don't really know if genes contributed because I never saw my mother's or grandmother's nature hair colors. :)
John, knobby knees are sexy on a man. But I think you knew that.
Stellaa, Sandra, for me it's a man's hands. Long, lean, clean, some hair but not gorilla-ish. Good think my husband fits that bill. I never thought of wrists, hard to believe but will have to check.