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Normal by whose definition? I can think of at least few women I know who had never seen a botox needle or a cosmetic knife in their lives, and yet they are as far from normal as you can get.
Normal is relative, and as far I'm concerned - boring.
- not getting Botox and various other expensive treatments constantly
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Actually, many of these foreign actors probably CAN afford all the fakeness, but they prefer to look like normal people ...
Absolutely the truth. Since I have moved to the UK I have noticed a huge difference in what is on the TV and movie screen - most celebrities here look like regular people. I love it!! Check this out: the actual poster for the same movie in the UK (what she really looks like in all her natural glory) and the one that was released for the USA (after they slimmed her stomach and arms, boosted her boobs and got rid of eye bags). Quite an eye-opener.
Kudos to the OP for recognizing the imperfect perfections of us "normal" ladies
I would consider myself to be "normal" on a regular day when I'm just running errands. But I do love to play "dress up" and look my best when I go out to social gatherings. I get approached in both instances, but the funny thing is, I always seem to appreciate the guys who approach me on my "normal" days more than those who approach me when I'm dressed up.
IMO, true beauty comes from within. Exterior beauty is just the icing, NOT the cake.
In my single days my buddies and I were most impressed with women who looked good in sweats, a T-shirt, and no make up. And if she was warm and friendly on top of that, you knew you had a winner.
May sound strange, but I have noticed time and again that normal women are somehow more interesting and cuter than all those divas with their perfect faces and bodies. I live in a very down-to-earth region of a rather poor country. Women here often smell of the lunch they have prepared instead of Chanel #5. One woman working at a supermarket here has amazing canines, almost a bit like Dracula, but when she smiles she is just so cute Other women have soft hair on their forearms, and it doesn't matter at all somehow. Many have excess pounds, but don't seem to bother. They are who they are and don't try to be anything else.
When I watch one of those TV series from the capital it often strikes me how different those women there are, both in terms of looks and what kind of woman they promote. I had such a girlfriend a long time ago, and it was over pretty fast, there was just no real connection. Just smelling her perfume was so sterile somehow.
So, what's more appealing, the natural or the metropolitan type?
You live in Portugal, right? It's amazing that I find Portuguese women (or their American descendants/relatives) incredibly sexy, and some of the women I have found the most attractive are not really that conventionally beautiful. They're just the type of women who are very comfortable being exactly who they are.
You live in Portugal, right? It's amazing that I find Portuguese women (or their American descendants/relatives) incredibly sexy, and some of the women I have found the most attractive are not really that conventionally beautiful. They're just the type of women who are very comfortable being exactly who they are.
Definitely, especially here in the south That is one reason I am still here, modern Portuguese girls and women are very beautiful in a natural way
Now in the summer when you go to one of those beaches where locals rather than tourists hang out, you almost feel like being in Brazil
Absolutely the truth. Since I have moved to the UK I have noticed a huge difference in what is on the TV and movie screen - most celebrities here look like regular people. I love it!! Check this out: the actual poster for the same movie in the UK (what she really looks like in all her natural glory) and the one that was released for the USA (after they slimmed her stomach and arms, boosted her boobs and got rid of eye bags). Quite an eye-opener.
They also pulled her stomach in and darkened the material around it into shadow to make her seem slimmer. Look at the tassels above the hilt of her sword, at the bottom of the pictures, and you can see where the designer clicked and dragged.
Regardless, no amount of Photoshopping could have made that movie appealing. Definitely not her best work.
Not for nothing, but I see why they enhanced her chest. One of the rules of acting is not to have a physique that distracts from the performance. In the U.S., being that flat-chested would be distracting. In fact, I'd wager that her chest, and not the movie, would become the focal point of the poster had it not been retouched. "OMG, I didn't know she was a carpenter's dream!"
Not making a political or body-hatred statement. Just saying I can see why they did it for U.S. markets.
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Her entire head seems smaller somehow. These days one just can't trust images anymore, thank you Photoshop.
Other women have soft hair on their forearms, and it doesn't matter at all somehow. Many have excess pounds, but don't seem to bother. They are who they are and don't try to be anything else.
