Body Terrorism And Masks - The New Face Of Female Perfection

Walking down any high street on a Friday and Saturday night and you cant help notice how the new look for teenage and adult women is to ensure your face is as smooth as a plastic mask, and as one fashion advert on TV puts it 'no visible skin pores!'

Even teenage girls can be seen shopping and going to school, complete with wearing the prescribed pore-less skin look via their cosmetic mask.

As most people realise starving the skin of air and moisture by blocking up the pores permanently, ages skin, creates skin complaints and overall makes the skin appear worse. Indeed whole body painting is known to be a killer unless at least several inches of flesh is left unpainted, usually at the base of the spine. We breathe through our skins to a far greater extent than we realise

So herein lies the rub - the so-called 'beauty industry' is fully aware of this and of course relies upon facial skin damage in order to push their wares in an ever decreasing circle of guilt and body image destruction.

The argument that a woman's skin ages quicker than men's is a total fallacy, and one caused by years and years of caking make-up being plastered into the pores of girls as young as 11 yrs of age, which continues then into old age.

So of course the industry is on to a winner - by creating the skin problem in the first place, they can then pimp their false chemical product cures for bad skin and anti-aging, with outlandish and unproven claims with impunity.

A vicious circle - use make-up daily, age the skin as a result, buy 'beauty products' that falsely claim to deal with the problem - apply make up daily - age the skin as a result - blah ,blah blah!

But of course that is not enough - utilise the media in all its forms to enforce the stereotypical look and beauty paradigm insisted upon by the beauty industry - create body guilt - push products that promise to make every woman into a life-long crusader and chaser of the stipulated beauty paradigm: 'simples'!

The very act of calling natural skin artifacts ‘blemishes’ and ‘imperfections’ itself leads to immediate damage to self worth and body image guilt in women.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – unless of course you buy into the brainwashing images thrust into the media on a daily basis, of what the industry sees as the ‘perfect face and body’!

The extent to which this act of ‘body-terrorism’ is pervasive and demeaning can be seen by the fact that the ‘Barbie Doll’ image of female genitalia is now also being promoted as the ‘perfect body shape’ and an appearance to adhere to.

No longer is it just that female pubic hair is seen as some form of genital disease, an untidy mess full of germs and disease; to be removed permanently, but the natural shape of a woman’s genitalia in all its forms; is now seen as imperfect being replaced with the smooth shapeless shiny look that is the new ‘perfect female genitalia’ – what!!

Whilst female genital mutilation is rightly outlawed, the cosmetic and plastic surgery industry is busy promoting their own ‘legitimate’ version of what amounts to being a similar thing! The only difference is one of consent or rather coercion!

Even the use of the words 'perfect woman' and 'perfection' is designed to ensure further body image guilt, as if the true image of the perfect woman is that of one with no skin pores, no lines, no blemishes and a nice plastic shiny face and body - YUK!!

The fact is that nature herself has created the 'perfect' woman in all her differing shapes, sizes and features.

Further the skin is the 'perfect' protector of the human body and face. Left to its own devises it looks good throughout the human lifetime.

Natural ageing does not result in ugly nasty looking faces, but then no one really ever sees the results of the left-alone natural ageing skin process in western society, simply because girls grow up with false body imagery wishing to emulate the practises of their mothers; and that means a lifetime of using products which age and damage the skin.

But now there are those who are fighting back, models, actresses, magazine owners and editors.

One such brave woman and New York model, Sally Gifford Piper, (for doing so illicits personal attacks, insults and even loss of work); decided she had had enough of the false imagery that goes along with this pushed image of 'perfection' and has worked with her husband to 'out' the beauty industry's greatest secret - air brushing as it was called when film stock was the media by which photographs were produced. Now the term has been extend to include the manipulation of images by digital means.

She starred in a video made in 2011 and shot by her director husband Tim Piper that illustrated in a spectacular way just to what degree picture editing transforms images of women into the so-called 'perfect woman'.

Watch their video now.

Reject body terrorism, and fight back against false stereotypical imagery and the money wasting body guilt being enforced upon you and your children!