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Beauty myth, schmeauty myth
December 30, 2004
Yesterday I spent spent part of the afternoon naked with Gracie, in front of a camera. I know, my life is soooo tough. I am giving the modeling thing an earnest go, but I’m not always sure I have “what it takes.” By this I mean, I’m not sure I have the capacity to freak out about my appearance, which is good and bad. For my mental health, it is totally good.
Let’s put it this way: I am inept at applying makeup, in sort of the same way that I am inept at parallel parking. I could be better at it, but I just don’t give enough of a shit to work on it. My level of skill is satisfactory to me - my makeup looks ok when I bother with it and I don’t get parking tickets despite the fact that my parking is never parallel.
Can I be a somewhat successful model (the concept of “success” is ripe for deconstructing, but I’ll leave it alone for now) if I don’t buy into the beauty myth? Sure, I’ll shave my legs and wash my hair and shit, but I’m still going to have chocolate donuts for breakfast before a shoot. Also, I’m not going to tweaze my eyebrows or curl my nostril hairs or whatever. I’m so out of the loop with all that stuff anyway, which part of me thinks is for the best, but I’m also concerned that it will lead to embarassing moments.
Maybe the real issue here is that I’m a bratty girl with an attitude problem.
Posted by Dacia at December 30, 2004 02:45 PM
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