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Archive for the ‘beauty’ Category
How Tina Fey Helped me Love My Body
August 31st, 2011 by Jonalyn
Do you know how many women say broad-minded things in public (Every woman is beautiful in her own way), but don’t believe it in their heart of hearts, at least not of themselves? Not of their body. I’ve been looking for a woman who knows how to face the funny facts of her body, laugh, own and [...]
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Talking to Young Girls
August 10th, 2011 by Jonalyn
When you meet a little girl, one wrapped in pink tulle or a quirky, bold hat, what do you say? “What a fun hat!”, ”Look at your dress, you look so sweet in that!” Her blue eyes sparkle and I’m IN. They want to talk to me. All for an easily spoken, easily created compliment [...]
Tags: beauty, body, friendship
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Thighs this Summer and Curly Girls
July 22nd, 2011 by Jonalyn
I cut off an old pair of horse-riding jeans this morning. They’re short, even shorter when I roll them. Yikes! I checked out my short shorts (and post-momma legs) in our mirror. My legs, in the back, look like someone else’s legs. Not quite firm, not quite smooth, not quite tan. I’m sort of concerned. [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, feminin/masculin-ity, prejudice
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Anthropologie’s Exotic Natives
July 17th, 2011 by Jonalyn
I want you to take a look at one page from an Anthropologie(self-defined as a “A sensory shopping experience for connoisseurs of unique beauty”) advertisement that arrived at my house a few months ago. Beautiful still aside, does this photo strike you as strange? A few notes to consider, the foils happening within, to use a [...]
Tags: beauty, body, politics, prejudice
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Beauty will save the world
June 30th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Today I’m wearing a shirt from Image that says “Beauty will save the world.” Gregory Wolfe, who recently penned a book with this title, lifted this enigmatic phrase from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Nobel Lecture” who in turn borrowed it from Dostoevsky. I’m wicked tired, so I’m not really illustrating that with my haggard face, unless, of [...]
Tags: beauty
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For the Love of a Woman – Cleopatra, Sex and Power
April 6th, 2011 by Jonalyn
I recently learned that the real Cleopatra wasn’t Elizabeth Taylor beautiful (neither was she Egyptian, she, along with her Ptolemy family, hailed from Greek). Her nose was long and a bit hooked, her chin pronounced, but her charisma captivating, her voice deep and as rich as Egypt’s lush fields. Admiration and love for spread from [...]
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Golden Hands and Exotic Poles
March 2nd, 2011 by Jonalyn
Being a little more than a quarter Hispanic, given the multi-ethnic look of so many models, it’s be easy to assume that it’s the Mexican blood that has the potential to make me exotic. But, if exotic means strikingly unusual, then the most unusual bit of me isn’t Mexican, it’s Polish. My short grandmother is [...]
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