More beautiful Bridgette Bardot or Raquel Welsh?
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Nolita_Denise — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 08:58 PM)
There are American actresses who choose to age gracefully. Sigourney Weaver talks about how when she was little her mother would hug her and get face cream on her cheeks in the process. She learned how to age from her mother and do so in a graceful and not artificial way. Dianne(sp?) Keaton's another American who has chosen to age more gracefully. I saw Lauren Hutton w/o makeup on HSN selling her makeup line for mature women. She hasn't been getting nipped, tucked, injected, and peeled. She's been aging naturally.
I've seen British pop stars who have definitely had work done.
I don't understand injections of poison for vanity's sake. I don't get how poison and plastic are pretty. I keep seeing preternatural creatures who were cute and even very pretty before they started with surgery and injections who look strange and otherworldly now. Their skin looks more like wax than skin. Their eyes are pulled into strange unnatural shapes. Their noses shaved down with sharp edges. Lips plumped to bizarre shapes and sizes. It baffles me and I'm a little scared that the status quo seems to love it. I feel like the celebration of fake beauty negates natural beauty.
When Raquel was young she had a bit of work done. Nothing all that major. You can see how pretty she was before. Just a bit of refinement really. I saw her on television recently and she hardly moves her face. Definitely injected. Personally I don't like it but it makes more sense at her age than it does on someone in their 20's or 30's and I see that a whole lot more than someone Raquel's age getting work, or rather it's more obvious on younger women probably because it's unnecessary. BTW the same show made her come across as a rather vain and self-absorbed woman. -
bardotek69 — 15 years ago(July 10, 2010 02:55 AM)
Yes, I totally agree with you - I don't get why people want to be artificial and fake for any price.
I was talking about the screen film legends of the 50s and 60s, and now that the actresses which you describe can handle their age.
I hope one day it will all finish and people will be natural and real to the end.
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Nolita_Denise — 15 years ago(July 10, 2010 11:07 PM)
There's also the aspect of individuality being lost. People walk out of the surgeon's looking like they come from the same mother. Sort of cut and paste features.
I also believe that people don't take possible long term effects into account. They figure that if the FDA approves it then it can't be bad. The FDA approved a lot of drugs that caused cancer, birth defects, and then some. I don't blindly trust the FDA. We can't know what a buildup of neurotoxin will do over decades of injections. Yes botox wears off, but that doesn't mean some residual amount of the botulism doesn't remain and build up over time.
To be fair I think a lot of Brigitte's disdain for fighting the aging process stems from her love of animals. So much torture for vanity's sake. I'm sure it repulses her. Almost everything gets tested on animals first. That wouldn't fly with BB. -
LarrupinLou — 14 years ago(June 23, 2011 11:19 AM)
I hope one day it will all finish and people will be natural and real to the end.
I have no problem whatsoever with anybody choosing cosmetic surgery as they get older, as long as:- It's safe
- You don't wind up looking like a freak - I'd rather look old and wrinkled than look like a space alien.
- You still resemble the old you still - better than looking like a space alien, but I would want to have my family recognize me after the surgery (unless you were funny looking to begin with :-D).
No blah, blah, blah!
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LarrupinLou — 14 years ago(June 23, 2011 07:16 AM)
Raquel was prettier, but Brigitte was sexier.
I agree with this.
At their peak (Raquel in the '60s-early '70s and Brigitte during the '50s-early '60s), Raquel was the most beautiful, IMO. Both had outstanding bodies, so they balance out each other in that department. Yet, as sexy as I feel Raquel was (and still is), Brigitte had that extra something that got your heart beating just a little bit more faster.
In the end, I would say it's a draw between them. Nothing wrong with that.
No blah, blah, blah! -
ridgerunner72160-609-362419 — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 09:27 AM)
Both Brigitte and Raquel were gorgeous in their heyday. But it's sort of like picking between Ginger and Mary Ann on the old Gilligan's Island choice. Let's just say I wouldn't kick either of them out of the bedroom if I were a lucky man.