Drew Barrymore, famous actress and model, is now the spokesmodel for Cover Girl Cosmetics, a drugstore-line brand of make-up.
Their latest product slogan is, “Live the Luxe Life.”
(To my knowledge, Cover Girl makeup has never been a “luxe” brand. But, okay.)
By using Drew Barrymore as the spokesmodel, Cover Girl wishes to persuade you that, by using Cover Girl products, you, too, can look as beautiful as Drew Barrymore:
If this is true, then Drew Barrymore–along with other stars such as Nichole Kidman, Carmen Electra, and more–would not need Sonya Dakar, the facialist-to-the-stars whose treatments can range anywhere from $300-$800. Indeed, all you would need is Cover Girl products. So why do the stars visit Sonya Dakar instead of their local Walmart?
Click here to watch a video of all the accolades this “Fairy Skinmother” receives from the stars. The product at left,Sonya Dakar Drying Potion, can be ordered online for $25.
Do you have any idea how much money stars pay to look like they do? I’m willing to bet they pay enough to buy my house each and every year. (It’s a 140-year-old fixer-upper, so I’m not being unreasonable in my assessment. Heck, it’s possible they may even spend more than my house is worth.)
So, unless you have a disposable income in the five-figure range, it is absolutely impossible to achieve their type of “beauty.”
Yet women everywhere compare themselves to the Hollywood elite, the super-thin models that grace the pages of the magazines we buy, and the ideal which is nearly impossible to achieve. And, yes, men want them, too.
Look, I’ll be honest. I want to look (tastefully) hot. I want my husband to go ga-ga over me, not some television babe. But, without the television babe’s budget (and also not the willingness to go to the extreme of plastic surgery), it just isn’t gonna happen.
However, I also don’t believe that we should just “love ourselves the way we are,” as the saying goes, if the “way we are” is looking like we just rolled out of bed when we go to pick up the kids from school at three o’clock in the afternoon.
I also think it is unreasonable (lynch me if you want, ladies, but I stand by this) to think our husband should love us “no matter what” if we look like we don’t care about ourselves; constantly complain about the problems in our lives while infrequently mentioning the good; and are not pleasant people around which to be. (EXCEPTION: the first six months after giving birth, the aforementioned should never apply. There are exceptions in life.)
There is something that we can all do to make us look and feel great, and it doesn’t cost anything at all: take a deep breath, relax, and smile! Really–it doesn’t matter how drop-dead gorgeous you look…if you act mean, no one will want to be around you for long. Beauty only gets you so far.
A realistic attitude about your body–not a take-me-as-I-am attitude or I’ll-never-be-happy/successful/satisfied-until-I-look-like-Britney-Spears attitude–is the most healthful attitude to have. Striving for the unattainable is not healthy, nor is beating yourself up all the time.
Self-confidence is sexy and empowering; being down on yourself or constantly comparing yourself to others is not.
Being healthy starts in the mind. Start with being realistic about that which you can change, and the other changes you may want to make–diet, beauty, or whatever–can follow.
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