After all, in the words of the great Dolly Parton (if you haven’t seen the film Steel Magnolias, amend that please), ‘there’s no such thing as natural beauty’. Not by widely accepted modern standards anyway, when, to be considered conventionally beautiful, you still need to adhere to some strict criteria.
For a start, you’ve got to have clear skin, straight white teeth, be bald from the eyebrows down, skinny, have full lips, no wrinkles, and, according to most of the men in the villa anyway, be petite, blonde and have blue eyes.
Sure, everybody’s different and allowed to like different things, but adding a preference for a ‘natural’ look into the mix complicates existing pressures even further. Does anyone actually naturally meet all that criteria?
It’s enough to make you wonder whether the men who say they prefer ‘natural’ women have spared a thought for what women really look like in their natural state, or for where their penchant for ‘not fake’ begins and ends.
Thus, being told this presents one with a virtually impossible task – to look good without making it look like you’re trying to look good.
Dee says: ‘In the 18th century it was fashionable and commonplace for men and some women to wear wigs.
‘It wasn’t called being fake – it was the style and the look of the day.’
Sally also says she’s noticed a more ‘pronounced’ look among ladies in the villa than she had in other seasons, and says the solitude of lockdown could be to blame for an increase in demand for procedures.
Indeed, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons previously said that some of its doctors had seen increases in requests for virtual consultations rise by up to 70% during the pandemic.
Sally explains: ‘The external gaze on the world helps ground us, and we’ve not had that, which means that people who are vulnerable have gone much more internal.
‘Eating disorders and self-medicating with alcohol has gone through the roof during lockdown, and I would imagine the demand for aesthetic surgery has as well.’
While there is of course a side of cosmetic procedures that’s born from insecurity, Dee says there’s also ‘a positive, energising side’, describing it as the ability ‘to embrace your body and want to change it purely as you love the creative process, pleasure and freedom this brings, celebrating what you and your body can do and, most importantly, doing it because it’s what makes you happy, more confident, liberated.’
When it comes to this particular Love Island drama, Sally says: ‘Hugo has to remember what show he is on, and I really wonder if he’s ever seen an episode.’
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