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Madonna named ultimate face

By Carla Bevan on Wednesday 6 August 2008

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Marie Claire celebrity news: Madonna on the cover of New York Magazine

Madonna has the perfect face, according to America.

In a cover feature on culture barometer New York magazine, her Madgesty is proclaimed 'The New New Face', thanks to her perfect heart-shaped visage, plumped-up cheekbones, wrinkle-free forehead and 'full but not overstuffed' lips.

Delve a little deeper inside the magazine, and the author accuses Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Liz Hurley and Naomi Campbell all of having 'new new faces'. Women in Hollywood, it seems, are all beginning to resemble one another.

'I don’t presume to know exactly what any of these women have done to their faces, if anything at all. It’s possible (though in some cases before-and-after pictures would seem to suggest otherwise) that this face is occurring entirely naturally - after all, these are women who are famous for being beautiful,' points out the author, Jonathan Van Meter.

'The point is that there is a noticeable aesthetic shift happening in the face, and that it’s dovetailing with quantum leaps in plastic surgery and dermatology.'

Today, it seems, having the perfect face isn't about stretched and gaunt-looking skin, but plumped-up, youthful cheeks - hence the huge popularity of fillers, as older women attempt to mimic the 'baby fat' of women in their teens and early twenties.

'It’s impossible to pinpoint exactly when or how a new aesthetic is born, but it seems clear that once we became obsessed with the baby face of the teenage girl, the world of dermatology came up with more and better ways for us to achieve the plumpness of youth,' writes Jonathan.

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

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No and never will. Who knows what effects all this tampering will have in the future. The article above says it all - we won't need cloning with these surgical fashion trends! Give me an interesting, lived-in face over the artificial vacant ones any day!
Comment by Anna Johnson on August 06 22:25

Spotted apple. Not everyone or everything is perfect.
We are made to be obsessed with perfection. People are supposed to be perfect. Vegetables, fruit, plants and animals too. The media seem to adore perfection.
Don't just look at the outside. Appearances are often misleading. An apple looking perfect might have a bad taste. A spotted one can have a fine taste. Don't condemn people just because they don't have the perfect looks. They might be special inside. Outer beauty is pure luck, inner beauty is pure gold.
Comment by Danellandia on August 07 08:29