12 Reasons How Glamour Is Ruining My Life (March 2012)

by 5:48 PM
Presenting Amanda Seyfried as tan… and a brunette … and making her pose in skinny Men’s Magazine poses.  (I want my 24 hour gap birthday girl mate blond and luminous as she is, not clearly photoshopped in the face and eyes, refer to Reason #3)

Headlining Katharine McPhee in “Everyone’s Pulling a Marilyn” over Megan Hilty!

Reminding me that 23 % of women of my age group are shallow in doctoring their personal photos to “look better.” (Retouching: How Much is Too Much?)

Many girls, like myself, have to be careful with our prints and have to actually try on a dress to make sure before deciding what printed dress is best on us because we don’t have a standard body size. (it’s called trial and error, not let’s read a magazine to decide) (Spring Fashion/Shop the Trends)

Not devoting a larger article to Max Greenfield (Schmidt from “New Girl”)

Many of the trend fashions (Bright pants/skirts, shorts,          heels, ) may not actually work on all body types and there should be an explicit warning or exceptions written.

Categorizing body type in only 3 sizes! (We are all women here, we know this is so true -- oh wait, fashion was originally conceived by men? Oh never mind then *eyeroll*)

Not including Essie’s “Calicos and Turquoise” polish in “OMG… Green Nails!”

The bottomline of listening to Fun.’s new album “Listen now and you’ll be able to say you knew them when.” (Uuuuhhh, you do know that Some Nights is their sophomore album, right?)

Holding an anti-food torch with shallow journalism, i.e. “Avocado: the healthy fat - It keeps you feeling full. A good thing!”(I thought women were finally undergoing a new attitude on health… Glamour must still be in the skinny-at-all-costs agenda... then two or three pages later posing the question “Can you be fat and healthy?”)

So it’s supposed to make me feel better about my own health that celebrities admit exercise suck?

Most Inconsistent Article of the Month Award goes to “Are You the Star of Your Life?” (Because I’m supposed to be both a diva but to “up our wattage a little, or a lot.” So which is it? We spend more than enough time balancing so many abstractions as women, Glamour, cut us a damn break!)

What They Did Right...

  • Showing Kesha’s beautiful freckles (I am obsessed with her freckles now!)
  • Thank you for sounding off on photo-shop, does that mean you’ll make a non-touched up edition someday soon?
  • Promoting avocadoes despite the shitty write-up
  • Promoting Olay Complete All Day UV Moisturizer SPF 15 (A permanent fixture in my beauty toolbox)
  • Making a shout out to Downton Abbey
  • Letting model and rock-child Chelsea Tyler grace your pages

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