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Poems from our 'Little Black Dress workshop for Women', these peoms are raw but honest please read away and share your opinions with us ......
Poems from our 'Little Black Dress workshop for Women', these peoms are raw but honest please read away and share your opinions with us ......
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I feel beautiful when my boy tells me so.. or when I have just brought myself the best new outfit ever! Love it!
i felt beautiful was when i fell in love, sounds like a cliche but literally everyone looked beautiful to me then including myself as i was so happy. I am still in love but after the intital passion dies i think men get abbit crap and start looking at everyone else in the world and thinking how beautiful they are and forget to tell you that actually it is you that (we hope!) they find most beautiful and i think , (sensitive creatures as we are) it does make a difference to how you feel , even if you do have high self estem, if the person you love doesn't seem to notice your appearence anymore....
Thinking about it tho, it has always been other women that make me feel more or less beautiful in good and bad ways. For example my beautiful friends will always notice what i am wearing and tell me i look great if i do even if it is sometimes tinged with jealousy and those same beautiful friends can equally make you feel crap through comparison....like one of my friends is obsessed with diets and is constantly worrying about what she is eating and the size of her bum! Even tho i am content with my weight and feel i am fairly portioned if she catches me on a bad day her ranting on can really make me think about how i must look to her and in the eyes of others when they see us together and i start to worry about my own image.
.... also it can be so compeitive with other women.. .theres always something more you should or could be doing to look better and it gets so tiring, theres no time to feel beautiful even if you are as it seems there is always a way to look even better arrhhh! How we women repress ourselfs with this obession with image!
But its every where... its like if you are better looking you even have more rights in life....for example the sad story of the female teacher killed in Japan was in the papers a few days ago and the amount of people (men and women) i heard saying..'Oh its such a shame , she was so pretty!'
..Now i agree wholeheartly, it is very sad.. but i think it is sad because a young person had their life cut short in a horrorific way... why mention she was pretty? Do we all accept (be it subconcioulsy) that it is more sad to die young if you are an attractive female ..like that ensures a good life ahead? That if you are pretty you are inherently more useful and valid in and to society? Is that truely how shallow we are? ..And this coming from people i would consider to be intelligent, considerate human beings! Wow ..kinda depressing..come on women lets get this revolution truely started, lets learn to live like people and not as female constructs in a male world!
It’s a bit of a stupid question really. When was the last time I felt beautiful? I’d love to believe that beauty comes from within and when you are happy with yourself you feel beautiful inside and out but it doesn’t work like that for me. If I’m honest I do only feel beautiful when someone else tells me I look beautiful or they like my dress or something. Sometimes I think I look pretty but then I go somewhere and see other girls in similar things and they just look good, composed and beautiful. Walking in to the big Topshop in Oxford Street always fills me with dread. You think you look ok until you hit the escalators and those massive mirrors and then I find my self in a line of beautiful shoppers descending to their playground and I stick out in the middle with hair plastered to my forehead, my buttons done up wrong and wearing last weeks big thing, which has devastatingly been pronounced this weeks ‘no no’ by those who have the skill to evaluate such pressing issues! Sometimes this throws me in to a state of panic and I hover around the shop picking up bundles of safe options I know will probably look ok and I currently have in my wardrobe at home in another 4 colours . Other times I go Avant garde- mix it up- max it- express myself. I cling to something over priced, fashionable, revealing and invariably strappy with ties and crazy fastenings. I adore myself for 5 minutes in the mirror think of possible outfit combinations and purchase it. Loving that ‘I’m being naughty’ and ‘can’t really afford it this month’. Once home it joins the corps like victims of these rash decision and is hung in the wardrobe. Back in the 60 watt light of my bedroom- the once sexy backless tie top appears to pinch and form a sausage roll type effect and the skin toned bra which did seem to work under it now just seems to just remind me of prosthetic limbs and plasters. It may be removed from the wardrobe once, maybe twice before being covered over with a shirt on the hanger not to see the light of day again. I’m not sure if I would wear them more if someone told me I looked beautiful in it? So maybe I do have some say in when I feel beautiful?
The Female of the human Race-
Reproduces and gives birth to the young
Breast-feeding her newborn baby she smells his newborn smell
Female-the species that gives birth and sits aside men
Mother and carer
Woman- word, a derivative of the word man
Girl, Beautiful girl…
..Fantastic, strong, love them ,
What age makes you , a women not a girl ….
Confidence
Being strong enough to be yourself and not care what anyone thinks
Power-suited she opened the door and walked in the room
A positive outlook on life-able to command attention ,
Not afraid to speak up
Being self assured, happy, contented and not caring what people think.
A natural state
Difficult to achieve
Beautiful people are more confident .
Friendly happy.
Wonderful thing to learn and know how to be
…to try . Do I have the confidence to do anything more than try .
Success
Achieving what you want
Happy she sits back in her comfy chair looking at her own flat
Measure of achievement
To have achieved a goal
Peace of mind , is that what we strive for?
Being rich, Being powerful
Happiness, strength, knowing who you are and what you want
Will I have success. When will I know.
Diet
What you eat or what you cut out
She choose the carrots over chocolate
Change eating habits-maybe to become healthier or to lose weight
Sacrificing things you love for appearance
A solution to what we think is a problem
Being skinny, wanting to be skinny , eating cottage cheese
Don’t like the word
Got the word die in that word
Beauty
A beautiful face- big eyes, lips and high cheek bones
Dancing in her yellow golden dress she smiles,
Inner or outer-in the eye of the beholder
…Solely in the eyes of the beholder.
Very personal opinion
Beauty; Relative and Subjective
Beauty…just what I was thinking..
Within ..
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Sexy
A confident person-happy to be themselves and have their own style
Straight into the camera she looks and her eyes sparkle ..
Attractive to the opposite sex-whether its an outfit, toned six pack or intelligence etc..
An outfit or an attitude produced to lure a partner
….I think men are really sexy when they have big muscle backs
Girls.., people like sexy people ..
What does sexy mean
Outside
Sexy flesh. Naked.