Warning: reflections in this mirror may be distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Our reflections, what we take in & process from our external world, are wildly distorted. Period. End stop. After all, in the Victorian era, plucking a woman’s upper hairline, in order to give one a large forehead, was considered beautiful. Our impressions are distorted by our culture, our sense of place, our geography, our time […]
Tags: beauty, culture, perception
Beauty comes …. beauty goes
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
My last post was about Important stuff. Serious stuff. And… because I like whimsy and because 1 of Rock.Paper.Scissors’ founding principles was and continues to be humour and improv, there’s always another side. Tongue firmly planted in cheek, where are you on the beauty continuum?
Tags: beauty, dove, dove beauty campaign, evolution, learning, modeling, reginald pike, yael staav
What’s beautiful is in the eye of the editor
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Beauty is captivating. Beauty is compelling. False beauty draws us slyly to its side. All the while whispering empty promises. “Buy this ______ (fill in the blank with your choice: car, lipstick, dress, watch….) and you’ll be like me.“ True beauty reflects beauty back. Welcomes us up onto the same pedestal. The dictionary definition of […]
Tags: beauty, dove, dove beauty campaign, evolution, reginald pike, yael staav