diabola in musica

because perfection isn't easy

While doing my daily roaming on Tumblr, I came across this picture. My first thought about this picture was that it looked amazing. While scrolling through the notes, the first few comments I read were about this picture was about how “make up does this to people” or “this is basically how every girl looks like”. Seriously? Has the society and the culture blinded you so much that you’d make a bias comment make up differences? I don’t understand how people can be so shallow that they can’t see the beauty from both sides of the face. Supposedly, because she wears make up, she’s ugly. Or because she doesn’t wear make up, she’s ugly. This world views such things in a black and white perspective. I say both sides of the face is gorgeous. Focusing on the left side, her make up radiates her beauty. In other words, it’s complimenting her facial features. Her skin gives off a warm glowing tone, her brows and lips are full, and her eye make up brings out her blue grey eyes. Focusing on the right side, everything is natural. There is no shame in the uneven skin tone. There is no shame in the bags and lines under her eyes. There is no shame in in her unfilled brows and her natural lip color. The beauty about this is that they are not flaws. We are brainwashed by the media and the culture about how to define beauty that we overlook what beauty really is. If you compared the two sides and said one side looked better than the other side, then I feel sorry for you. You truly don’t understand what makes both sides beautiful. NB: Both photo and commentary have been circulating around the Internet without obvious accreditation, which saddens me because I want to know the person who wrote such a brilliant piece and it is a pain to sieve through notes to find an original post. I’m sure that ze isn’t the first to comment on this aspect of beauty norms nor would ze be the last, but when a thought generates over 47,000 responses, its author deserves, at least, an easily found link, especially when people are asking who it is. So who is it? Everyone, meet Allison. Zoom

While doing my daily roaming on Tumblr, I came across this picture. My first thought about this picture was that it looked amazing. While scrolling through the notes, the first few comments I read were about this picture was about how “make up does this to people” or “this is basically how every girl looks like”. Seriously? Has the society and the culture blinded you so much that you’d make a bias comment make up differences? I don’t understand how people can be so shallow that they can’t see the beauty from both sides of the face. Supposedly, because she wears make up, she’s ugly. Or because she doesn’t wear make up, she’s ugly. This world views such things in a black and white perspective. I say both sides of the face is gorgeous. Focusing on the left side, her make up radiates her beauty. In other words, it’s complimenting her facial features. Her skin gives off a warm glowing tone, her brows and lips are full, and her eye make up brings out her blue grey eyes. Focusing on the right side, everything is natural. There is no shame in the uneven skin tone. There is no shame in the bags and lines under her eyes. There is no shame in in her unfilled brows and her natural lip color. The beauty about this is that they are not flaws. We are brainwashed by the media and the culture about how to define beauty that we overlook what beauty really is. If you compared the two sides and said one side looked better than the other side, then I feel sorry for you. You truly don’t understand what makes both sides beautiful.

NB: Both photo and commentary have been circulating around the Internet without obvious accreditation, which saddens me because I want to know the person who wrote such a brilliant piece and it is a pain to sieve through notes to find an original post. I’m sure that ze isn’t the first to comment on this aspect of beauty norms nor would ze be the last, but when a thought generates over 47,000 responses, its author deserves, at least, an easily found link, especially when people are asking who it is.

So who is it? Everyone, meet Allison.

Dress, No. 13, spring/summer 1999, Alexander McQueen What spoke to me most was McQueen’s unrelenting and passionate provocation. He loved the dramatic, the ecstatic experience of beauty. His work may be trim—an echo of his tailoring beginnings—but always, they were darkly erotic. McQueen’s romanticism was also paired with a keen awareness of the cinematic. This piece was not just a dress, but a performance where two industrial robots spray-painted the model. 

Dress, No. 13, spring/summer 1999, Alexander McQueen

What spoke to me most was McQueen’s unrelenting and passionate provocation. He loved the dramatic, the ecstatic experience of beauty. His work may be trim—an echo of his tailoring beginnings—but always, they were darkly erotic.

McQueen’s romanticism was also paired with a keen awareness of the cinematic. This piece was not just a dress, but a performance where two industrial robots spray-painted the model. 

I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It’s like the Story of O. I’m not big on women looking naïve. There has to be a sinister aspect, where it’s melancholy or sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it’s good to use a little of it—and sometimes a lot of it—like a masquerade.

Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put into femme presentation is a waste of time and energy – or, at the very least, time and energy that could have been spent doing something more important. Anti-femme culture thinks “pretty” probably means “dumb” even when struggling against a culture obsessed with an impossibly narrow beauty standard. Anti-femme culture thinks you can’t do math AND do your nails.

We are humans! We contain multitudes! I do not think it is a problem that teenaged girls are interested in experimenting with presentation via fashion; I think it’s ridiculous and misogynist that they are ONLY encouraged to do that – and that boys don’t have the same freedom of expression.