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Celebrity Photoshop and body image in my 30’s

// June 30th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Ibdreamy, Pictures, Reality TV, WTF

Women in our society are constantly trying to live up to a level of beauty that is sold to them through fashion mags, TV and movies..what we all might not realize is how much of that beauty is a computer generated.
Fantasy women that real women could never measure up too.
I think these pictures are an eye opener and goes to show just how incredibly fooled we all are by the media. We’ve been bamboozled! Don’t get me wrong I think we all like to look at beautiful people but  it’s also nice to know we’re not so bad after all too..that everyone has their faults and no one is picture perfect.

What’s been hard for me is just getting older.. not being in my twenties anymore…and when I turned 35 whoa I really started to feel old. I want to see the beauty in myself but its not always easy because I do notice those little smile lines and imperfections that come with natural aging..I see them everyday and it does get me depressed.

I’m really grateful for Roy because he’s always telling me “Your so beautiful” which usually makes me feel better but then again deep down inside I’m also always thinking to myself.. he’s just saying that because he loves me.. so he can’t win for losing. Haha!

I think I struggle with the same thing a lot of other women…body image and lack of self esteem. It’s something I want to work on and something I want to get over.

If the media were to ban Photoshop retouches..could you just imagine? Women might actually start to feel better about themselves when we all begin to realize that our favorite stars have the same smile lines that we do..would we admire them ore or less?

more before and after pictures

Clipomatic

// June 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Applications, Blogging, Freeware, Geeks, Useful, Windows, web tools, webdesign

There are a few programs I could not live without at work and at home. Clipomatic is probably the one I use the most. It’s a clipboard manager.

How it works

Start Clipomatic, and it will automatically begin monitoring the clipboard and recording its changes. When you want to paste an old item, you just put the keyboard cursor where you would like to paste and press Ctrl-Alt-V instead of Ctrl-V. A menu pops up with your clips – you can select one with the mouse or with a single keystroke. The menu then disappears, and the item is pasted.

Just check out out and you’ll like it…

More Info/Download Clipomatic

Ipod movie source

// June 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Ipod, Mobile, Movies, Music, Pictures

Need movies, music, TV shows for your Ipod?

Check out: podtropolis.com

About Last Night

// June 21st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Ibdreamy

Here are some pics of friends at an 80’s theme party that I went to last night..it was pretty fun. I hate the 80’s though..it was a horrible decade in fashion. I got a little tipsy and we all danced to sipping on some siszurp

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Free Social Network Icons and Bullets

// June 2nd, 2008 // 45 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Design, Desktop Icons, Email, For Geeks, Graphics, Icons, Useful, Windows, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webdesign

Here you’ll find a bunch of random social networking icons, bullets, buttons..and more icons etc..that you can use on your blog or website. Make sure to check out some of the other icon posts I’ve posted, just do a search for icons in the search box in the sidebar.

Just remember to please host them yourself..no hotlinking please. There are plenty of free image hosts available. Try tinypic.com or photobucket.com! Enjoy!