Prepare a face…
…to meet the faces that you meet:
Backstage Beauty at The New York City Ballet from Racked.com on Vimeo.
Such a contrast between the relatively drab starting point and the very glam finish. And false eyelashes are only a little less uncomfortable than pointe shoes. But anything for beauty—and art.
[NOTE: the title of this post comes from this.]
I was proud at having once discovered there are more ways to see a woman than there are synapses in the brain to accommodate the seeing. And then I discovered women know this very early on.
I wonder, can a distinction be made between feminine beauty and the male appreciative “gaze” of feminine beauty?
Read the angry feminist comments in film critic John Simon’s post on feminine beauty:
http://uncensoredsimon.blogspot.com/2013/03/feminine-beauty-or-70-girls-70.html