Jessica Simpson's Price of Beauty aired it's first episode September 15, 2010 at 10 pm.
Jessica is going to other parts of the world to view women's perspective on feeling and looking beautiful in other cultures. This is her journey to find out what women wear, their style, and of course cosmetics.
With each country they visit, they have selected a "beauty ambassador," to teach them about the beauty in that country. This week they traveled to Thailand, Sonia Couling, model/actress, will be escorting Jessica and her friends through Thailand.
One of the biggest beauty regimens for the women of Thailand, is that they try to look the palest as possible. The women use special foundations to make their skin more pale. Being tan in Thailand signifies that you are lower class or have less money. It generally means that you work outside. Which is very much different from the women of America, who tan regularly. You can see the picture of the Thailand woman to the right and see just how pale her face is from the other women. The one major problem with the face whitening creams, is that the companies who create them are not regulated by the government, some vendors will sell products that can potentially cause health problems.
1 comments:
I’ve never seen this television show but I think it has a very interesting theme. I like the way it lets us see the popular trends and styles from all around the world and it lets us see how truly individual they are. Every culture has a different idea of what is considered “beautiful” and I think it’s interesting to see what each culture values as being attractive or desirable. It’s also interesting to see that many of the things we do are very dangerous to our health – and this is done all over the world. Here in the United States, people risk skin cancer to make themselves look better while in other countries they use dangerous creams to achieve the opposite. I’d definitely like to see more episode – seems like it could open our eyes to the crazy thing we do to look good.
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