Positive and Negative
Posted by Susie on May 13, 2008
I forgot to do the final part of the Week Seven tasks:
HEART: Name one positive thing you intend to do for your image/self-image/look and one negative thing you vow NOT to keep doing.
The positive thing I am doing to trying to improve my posture. After all the “head up high, tummy in, pelvis under” advice over the years, a simple description in Tim Gunn’s ‘A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style’ finally made it easy for me to put this into practice. In this book, he talks about the ‘Bistro Position’, which is the way you hold your body when squeezing between tables in a packed restaurant. It was a lightbulb moment for me and I am reminding myself to adopt the Bistro Position whenever I remember. And it’s true, good posture does make a world of difference. I aim to keep plugging away until it is second nature.
The negative thing is that I am going to stop assuming that all the photos I see in magazines are real-life images. Wende’s links to Jezebel really opened my eyes to the reality of photoshopping. I never knew…
May 13, 2008 at 4:49 pm
That posture thing - INCREDIBLY hard to do. I am trying so hard and it looks so much better but dang, it’s not easy. Good luck!
May 14, 2008 at 7:05 am
I think it helped me that years ago a friend showed me untouched photos by Bruce Weber of Elizabeth Taylor right after her brain surgery a decade ago. Though she looked beautiful and much better than you would have expected without makeup he was instructed to do so many things to the photos for approval. By the way, I was shown the pictures as proof that she hadn’t had a face lift and well, I couldn’t see any scars.