![]() ![]() The idea that women felt they had to contort themselves to be presentable for a man who resembled nothing so much as a toad is tragic. “It was very technical: This is how we look glamorous.” Also, she told the New York Times last year: “It has to fit a predetermined idea of what men think is pretty, more specifically what Roger Ailes thinks is pretty.” “The whole Fox look was created to deal with those cameras, and lights,” said Baker. The makeup in “Bombshell” is a striking metaphor for how the women of Fox News - particularly the up-and-comers striving to fit the Barbie doll mold - surrender themselves to a contrived aesthetic that is forced and not particularly beautiful but meant to convey the idea of beauty. On numerous women in line to pick up passports at the Federal Building in Westwood. On a twentysomething customer in ripped jeans buying cigarettes at 10 a.m. On a thirtysomething woman in yoga pants leaning against a wall on Speedway in Venice. On my middle-aged checker at Gelson’s Market. But fake eyelashes have burst out of their traditional habitat of red carpets, wedding aisles and proms and into regular life.Ī few examples of where I have spotted them recently: Regular Josephines used to don the things for special occasions - if at all. Thanks to the hyper-primped women of Fox News, and the overexposed Kardashian clan, fake eyelashes are not just for women who make a living appearing on camera anymore. ![]() I’m not sure that Roger Ailes and Kim Kardashian have much in common, but I will say this: The two of them helped foist an extreme feminine aesthetic on women that lately has become a parody of itself.
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