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From time to time GoldDigger are asked to write for magazines and share our thoughts and experience on issues. We'll post some of these here in this sections and also may write some just for you. Let us know on the forum if there are any topics you'd like us to get stuck into and write about.
On the Front Cover...Mandy talks magazines
One of my favourite things about being in GoldDigger, aside from writing music, travelling around, meeting new people and of course gigging, I LOVE our girls courses where we get to have proper in-depth chats about the things we go through. One week we chat all about beauty...how the media makes us feel, being faced constantly with airbrushed and rich celebrities, why, oh why we look at images like this and end up feeling boring and worthless... We all 'know' it in our heads that these images are not reality but the reality is that they can have enormous affect on how beautiful we think that we are.
It made me sad recently at the checkout at Sainsburys (my trick is that buying a magazine in the supermarket doesnt count as spending money - as somehow a magazine cost might get disguised as some broccoli or something sensible :S) As the checkout lady was scanning a magazine with a pretty girl on the front -amazingly bright blonde perfect bouncy curls and looking stunning- the lady sighed, looking so upset and told me how her hair didn't seem to go like that. Well the thing is that NO ones hair happens to go like that without a team of about 20 professional stylists, great photographers, makeup artists, lighting crew and graphics artists ready to make this image look amazing. I am sure that getting up to get to Sainsburys for her morning shift this lady didn't have all that available to her...and neither does this same model everyday of her life either... we ALL look great sometimes and rough as at other times...lets be honest (!) and any single one of us could look stunning if Vogue had us lined up for their front cover...they would make sure of that. So why do we waste SO MUCH time being dissatisfied with the way we look but wishing we were like someone else... who is also wishing that they looked like someone else too. Stupid crazy world!!
Love Mandy xx