hey everybody....
it's amanda palmer (from the dresden dolls).
i played a solo show in atlanta last week and a fellow unshaven beauty came up to me when i was signing stuff after the the show.
she flashed her armpits at me (which were lovely) and we started rapping about shaving and hair...and she told me that there was a livejournal community called ( Read more... )

Tyra is having another show about body image today at 5:00pm (times & channels may vary depending on your location) ..

Upcoming topics:

Mother who blames daughter for the shape she feels her body is in
young girl who hates her thighs
teen who 'wishes' she were anorexic

oh joy. But really, how mature do you have to be to blame your daughter for ( Read more... )

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Hungarian plastic surgeon Dr. Lajos Nagy offers all the usual services at his clinic. You can get a breast enlargement, a nose job, liposuction, etc. But he also offers a rather unusual service: music faun surgery. He'll make your ears pointed so that you look like a music faun.

Click the picture below to see the full-size gallery.


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What do you think, is having some procedures done to improve your face and body wrong or quite normal?
Some Plastic Surgery Results Pics

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Hello, newbie here ( Read more... )

This is a Link to a Documentary that I found at kissmyass_cosmo originally posted by the user petrichor_fizzKilling Us Softly 3 by Jean Kilbourne ( Read more... )

The next time you buy sanitary pads or tampons, check the labels and see whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email ( Read more... )

Media Not Totally to Blame - women's magazines' role in eating disorders

"Thomsen teamed with Kelly McCoy, assistant professor of family science, and Marleen Williams, associate clinical professor of counseling psychology. Unlike previous eating disorder studies, their research examined the motivations behind women's use of beauty and fashion ( Read more... )

Sexualisation 'harms' young girls.
According to the research identified by the task force, such images and promotion of girls as sexual objects negatively affects young girls in many ways.

"The consequences of the sexualisation of girls in media today are very real," said Dr Eileen Zurbriggen, chair of the group and associate professor of psychology ( Read more... )