Misery has always been a badge of honor for women. Might I refer you to the 40s-50s-60s radio/TV show "Queen for a Day"? That show literally rewarded misery by having contestants tell their weepy stories, then gifted the most pitiful with a new clothes washer or something. Women have always been expected to be self-sacrificing and misery is the proof that they've done their job properly. Combe needs to do some more research.
"How to look seriously younger" is a rather stupid statement, eh? One would think that youth is about being carefree, not seriously anything. Oh lady mags.
@badmutha: And you know, I'd rather roll up looking successful and happy, and WAY more confident than I was at school. I don't give a fuck if I don't look younger than people who are the same age as me.
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After reading that article, I was totally bummed out because now I am failing by not volunteering enough in my community. And also because I am afraid to try glitter eyeshadow. I guess I failed at being a lady. Again.
Another day, another "wimmens are fucked because they're 'equal' now" article. I would just rather have one person write the honest "I hate women, get back in the fucking kitchen, bitch, let's roll back the clock you uppity thing you" article and just be done with it. Say what you will about the evangelicals, but at least they are honest to a certain degree about wanting us to shut up and be pregnant.
I would be happier if fashion didn't dictate that teenage girls look like plumbers from behind (and I do mean behind). I've had it with the ass crack look. What the F are designers thinking? No wonder why women aren't happy. Look at the clothes they have us in.
Thank goodness winter is here and they will be covering their usually flip flopped feet with Uggs and covering up that ass crack with a coat.
Why is her solution giving back to the community? That's great and all, but how about joining the Women's Movement now? That seems like more apt advice in a time when uteruses are being regulated more than the banks.
@CurtCole: There you go using your dude brain again to confuse all us poor delicate things. We need to BUY SHIT and DO VOLUNTEER WORK until we're happy. Or take expensive medications.
@CurtCole: there is a lot of empowerment in giving back to the community. especially if you look at giving circles and women's foundations that primarily leverage gifts from women to fund women's issues and programs to raise women out of poverty... which achieves both goals, no?
Not the fucking glitter eyeshadow again! First it's blue eyeshadow, now glitter is back? Christ on a cracker, Fashion! I had some mascara in the 9th grade that was clear and full of silver glitter, would you like to make that popular again, too? Oooh how about we all go back to frosted pink lipgloss and painting each of our fingernails a different color with those little tiny bottles of nail polish!
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I'll trade you two of your bottles of polish for my whole collection of Garbage Pail Kids, this awesome poster of Kirk Cameron, and four snap bracelets.
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: blue eye shadow doesn't necessarily need to be trashy. i wear it sparingly and occasionally, since it goes very well with brown eyes.
I was also disappointed that they clearly cranked up the contrasting in the SJP spread. It's like their "we didn't alter the photos" answer to erasing wrinkles.
@Penny: I have to admit this is my cure-all for dark spots, blemishes, and enlarged in photos of me. It works fine for me because I'm already super pale.
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@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I'm more concerned with her awkward I Dream of Jeannie getup. I didn't put together that that was a dress for a full minute and a half. I kept wondering why her stylist for the photo shoot would put her in such an ill-fitting bikini top.
oh man...that was so boring. and I thought I was uber bored BEFORE I started reading. about nothing. and nobody.
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you know you want it.
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Of course, I'm also not on the cover of Elle. Go figure.
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Their gift guide was fucking ridiculous. Seriously, Elle? Throw in some shit under 100 bucks, we're in a recession.
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Are these women on some sort of contractual agreement that they must do a certain number of magazine covers per year? Sorry, I'm just tired of the same people staring out at me from magazine shelves.