| Hearing the news about Michael Jackson's untimely | | | | stars, pop singers and celebrities. Ordinary women and |
| death was a shock to everybody. Anybody under the | | | | men are resorting to the surgeon's knife. I find this a |
| age of 45 has grown up with his music which has | | | | frightening trend and one that suggests that there is |
| covered 4 decades! Love or hate his music, | | | | only one "look" that is beautiful. |
| everybody has heard it and you can only admire his | | | | Beauty comes in many forms and a person's |
| musical talent and stamina for producing so much. | | | | individuality is often their charm. If we all looked the |
| But like many child stars, Michael Jackson lost his | | | | same we would no longer be beautiful. Women in |
| childhood and his privacy, living the majority of his 50 | | | | particular are very good at looking in the mirror and |
| years in the public eye. As I was watching footage of | | | | only seeing the bits they don't like. So many times I |
| his extraordinary life from child phenomenon to the | | | | have women telling me about their "fat legs" or "big |
| King of Pop, I cannot help feeling sad that his life | | | | nose" or "horrible hair". My aim with women like this is |
| cannot have been a happy one. | | | | to try to get them to focus on the things that are |
| Looking at the physical transformation from the happy | | | | beautiful about them. By concentrating on the good bits |
| smiling child Michael was when he first sang with his | | | | and showing them to their best advantage, we can |
| siblings to the sad, pinched and pale Michael of recent | | | | ignore the bad bits and nobody will notice. |
| years, it amazes me what somebody will do to | | | | Wearing colours and clothes that compliment the body |
| change their appearance to "conform" to an image | | | | shape you have will enhance the best of you. Focusing |
| they perceive as "the look". | | | | on these "good" features will give you confidence to |
| Plastic surgery, Botox and many other cosmetic | | | | celebrate the body you have, without resorting to |
| surgical procedures are becoming more and more | | | | major surgery which carries risks that, in my opinion |
| common place and are no longer prohibited to movie | | | | are not worth taking. |