Sunday, March 28, 2010

.How to look good naked.


I've been inspired to think about photography this weekend and having recently spent so much time dealing with women and their messed up perceptions of beauty I've decided that we should all get naked.

I think everyone should get a naked photo shoot of themselves in their 20's. That way you can look at yourself and think "I was hot stuff" when you're older. If you don't appreciate your body now you will when you don't have it anymore. I promise you won't think "I had fat thighs" or worry that your stomach was too big. You'll look back and remember how beautiful you were and wonder why you didn't appreciate it then.
I remember looking at a picture of myself in my early teens and thinking "Shit I was so skinny! Why did I ever call myself fat?" and that day I decided to pitch the words "fat" and "ugly" from my Lauren orientated vocabulary.
I am not fat. I may be sluggish, but I am not fat.
You are not fat, you are beautiful and perhaps you just need to eat less salt so you don't feel bloated or something, but you are not fat.

I think everyone is beautiful, no one is more beautiful than I am and I am no more beautiful than anyone. We're all waves from the same ocean;we're all water, we're all beautiful.

Clothes and make-up and other accessories of manufactured "beauty" are merely status symbols. If we all stripped down there would be a lot less to compare beauty with. We'd be more equal and then perhaps we could appreciate how gorgeous humans can be.
I think if we can't be naked all the time we should at least have a reminder of how beautiful we are naturally. Have a naked photoshoot and hang that bad boy up somewhere you can see it everyday, why? Because everyday you're worth checking your own ass out and reminding yourself of how hot it really is.


"A good quote I found on a tumblr was, 'Models make up a very select group of humans, they should be called Examples.' -J.S

1 comment:

  1. There's so much more I want to say about this, especially with some of the experiances I've been having at the new job. I hope the idea comes across because tonight I am way too tired to write like a pro.

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