Makeover Shows!
There are so many current makeover shows on T.V right now, such as Queer Eye For The Straight Guy ,TLC's What to wear and another show called 10 Years Younger. All of these shows display people who are not doing their best to keep their appearance looking up to date,so when the hosts of the show What Not To Wear which are Stacy and Cliton also known as the fashion police come to your town and put you on the show, that means you need some serous help in the fashion department. Now at times Stacy and Cliton can be a bit harsh and somtimes just plain mean! but they do it all out love, because they want you to leave their show looking and feeling like a better person. Here is the way the show works, one of the family members or love ones have to nominate a person in need of a fashion makeover,then they send in a tape of the person wearing some of the uglyliest colthes they've ever worn, but the catch is that the person being nominated does not know they are being taped and will have to follow all of Stacey and Clitons rules of fashion! Stacy and Cliton then look over the tape and decide if that person is really in need of some fashion help. If that person is picked Stacey and Cliton come to the city the person lives in and then the person is forced to their secret footage that their family have friends had submitted to the show. After some heavily coaching on what to wear and what not to wear they put that person to the test. They give that person a credit card with five thousand darllors on it to spend on a new wardrobe. Others shows like Queer eye for the straight guy gives tips on how to be a better person in general, covering things like fashion,cooking,and relationships. The show 10 Years Younger follows the same guide lines but is particularly show primarily for wemon who look 1o years older then what they are. One particular episode I remember was when this women had severe acne problems and a lot of damaged to the skin, she also had ciggarette and coffee stain marks on her teeth, then she compalined that she was to over weight and she wanted to do somthing about it. The host of the show Mark Montano sent the woman to a dermatoligist then to a dentist and then sent her to a personal trainer. the woman was also sent to a make up artist and a fashion exspert to complete the woman's over all transfermation. When I saw the woman after her make over she looked and said she felt like a new person, and she was! I know it sounds corny but I like makeover show's that not only make over the body but also the soul too. In that particular case they gave this woman more confidence and gave her a better out look on life. Other makeover show's like the Swan is somthing I truley dissagree with. Plastic surgery is not always the best option to lookng like a better person. I just feel like its very fake and not normal. I think that show is sending a message to wemon across America to be ashamed of their flaws and instead of embracing their imperfections as beauty, they would just snip, nip, and tuck it away.

Disney Channels Leading Ladies

It is a known fact that the Disney channel is known for their popular shows that appeal to the tweens and young children around the world. Recently they have started a Phenom with the teenage shows of today, and considering that in some ways I would like to think I am a feminist I am very proud that the stars of those show are young ladies. First they started with Hilary duff and the Lizzie McGuire show this was a popular show among that teenage girls around the nation. Now I admit myself that the show did not display her best acting skills but that's not the point. The show boasted her career and teenage girls around America wanted to be like Lizzie McGuire, because she played a teenage girl going through the same problems all teenaged girls faced at that time, puberty! This show opened up many doors for her, she soon released a clothing line in Target and a CD called Metamorphis that debuted #1 on the music build board charts. her show soon was the most watch show on Disney channel and the highest paid actress on Disney. Now again I'm not saying that Hilary Duff is a great singer, I'm not even saying she's a great actress, I 'm just saying that this girl became a superstar and held a lot a power at the tender age of 14. The show ended when she became 16 because Disney channel has a rule that a show can only do so many episodes. Since Disney Channel has so much success with the Lizzie McGuire they followed up with another show called That So Raven. The leading lady in this show was no stranger to the spot light and acting. Unlike Hilary Duff Raven Simone had been acting since she was a little girl on the Cosby Show. Now the show wasn't exactly a original concept like Lizzie McGuire but it was about a a teenage girl who could see the future and sometimes her visions causes her to get in weird situations, now even though this show may sound weird to many it is a great comedy series to all teen Disney lovers. Raven Simone is now a house hold name. She has her own clothing line, makeup line,music CD and stared in two number 1 Disney channel original movies Cheetah Girls 1&2. These girls both have foundations helping under privliged kids and both give back to their communties.My point is it's great to see young powerful teenage girls giving back. It is also great that girls have great teen idols to look up to. You can argue that these girls have no talent, but you cannot argue that these girls haven't influenced society in a positive way. these young women are creating a name for themselves and doing something positive with their fame.

"Can You hear Me now?"
Some people say that the cell phone commercials or the most stupid commercial on television, but I beg to differ. I think that some cell phones company's such as Verizon wireless have some great catch phrases for their commercials with the popular slogan "Can you hear me now", and I also like the Cingular commercials. Now that Nextel and Sprint have merged into one company there commercials are a little more edgier, they have the catch praise "Where you at." Nextel and Sprint have used popular term, rappers such as Fabulous, Phat Joe and Snoop dog have promoted their popular two way walky talky also known as the "chirp". Teens are always trying the get the coolest cell phones with the latest technology, and celebs are no stranger to cell phones. When Paris Hilton got her Twoway cell phones with diamonds put on it, the whole world went out and bought studs to put on their phones. I think this was a wise decsion made to put celebs in these cell phone comercials, this is what makes Nextel more appealing to teens today. What I don't see are a lot of T-Mobile phones, even though I think T-Mobile company sales the worst phones on this planet. They have terrible service and constantly missed dropped calls. The only reason T-Mobile is even in business is because of their pretty colors the Razor phones comes in. When I watch their commercials I don't see anything special about their phones but the way they look, unlike a company like Verizon wireless who are constantly advertising new ways they have improve their phones. The only reason people buy T-mobile phones is because they are cheaper than many phones on the market right now, but I would rather pay more money for a Verizon wireless or sprint phone an get great service, than buy a T-Mobile for a cheaper price and get a phone that's very pretty but has crappy service. T-Mobile also has the worst commericals, they are so boring, sometimes they have the occasional celebrity on there commercials, but they have have such a bad reputation where I live that no one bother to buy the phone cause they know That T-mobile has the worst service. You will be better off getting a prepaid phone then ever buying a T-mobile.

Ugly Betty !

I love this show! I first heard about this show from a friend because she knew that it was my dream to work for a fashion magazine, but I was convinced that I wouldn't like it, even after looking at the previews. What sparked my interest about the show was that I heard my teacher talking about it, saying that the show was actually very good and the script was written cleverly. finally after my friend talked to me forever about the show I just relented and decided to watch. I went to the ABC website and clicked on one of the webisodes, and to my surprise I couldn't stop laughing! I sat their for two hours and watched every Ugly Betty episode. what I love about the show the most is that The actress playing Betty(America Ferrera) is completely anti-model they picked a everyday looking girl to play this part, they didn't try to pick a actress who looks like a model and dress her down to play this role. The woman playing the part of Betty is much more believable. The character Betty is a girl from Queens,New york who is given a job by the founder of Mode magazine Bradford Meade (Alan Dale). Betty was hired in the attempt to get his son Daniel Meade (Eric Mabius) head editor of mode magazine to stop sleeping with his assistance's. Betty is hardly a top model but well qualified for the job, but she soon realizes that honesty and kindness is valued everywhere but fashion. All through the shows Betty is learning how to adjust her new job as assistant to the editor, but the adjustment is not a easy one. Betty is trying to find a place for herself at Mode magazine. Even though everyone around her is screaming change! she refuses to change her look for anyone, this is what makes Betty and this show unique. I love this show because Betty continues to break all the rules in that she is not the typically 5'10 size 2 girls working at mode magazine. I think that Ugly Betty is giving a real look for aspiring journalist in fashion.