The More Money You Spend.....

.......doesn't make you a better you.

Yesterday, as I was sitting in a doctor's office waiting room, I happened to flip through the pages of one of the well known fashion rags.  I can't remember the name, and anyway I don't want to give them props. I was disgusted.

I'm sorry, but those models on those pages selling "high fashion", show absolutely no personality. And, frankly, they looked like alien, skeletal beings. The only word I could come up with, while I kept flipping was..."Ewww...".   Blunt haircuts. Some kind of grayish face makeup. Odd body angles in the photos. ... Good Lord, folks. When did this become the ideal??!

And don't even get me started on the prices of these "To Die For".. fashions. $675 for some slingback shoes? $1025 for a beaded clutch? What gives? I love clothes like the next woman, but this seems rather exorbitant, dontcha think? Page after page of the "it" look. Page after page of high priced bobbles. And then we wonder why women have a hard time defining beauty.

Well, what can we do?

We can:

1) Not fall for the world's ideal of beauty. Those models, pictures and settings can be beautiful, but they are not beauty. Beauty starts inside. Beauty delights the senses.. there is more than just what we see. You can't see kindness, honesty, and love.. but those make a person truly beautiful.

2) Not fall into the trap. In the mags, advertisements pay for the articles...the articles lead you back to the advertisements. It's a money game. They take your money.....And we give it to them like little children following the Pied Piper.  Infants like shiny things because their sense of sight has not fully developed. .... Choose not to be an infant.  Think for yourself.

3) Not pay full price. Ok..ok.. so you really still want those Jimmy Choo's.. buy them, perhaps, from a consignment shop. Paying full price just makes you poor.

4) Not continue the cycle. Educate your sons and daughters what beauty is. If you allow the mags and TV to do the teaching, they will continually follow after that. Teach them to have their style.  It's OK to be an individual. Teach them to stand out with who they are, not with just what they look like. Love them. Teach them to love themselves.

....and I think I'll start picking up the mags about home design at the doctor's office..