http://colourmuse.blogspot.com.....ntage.html
She brings up an idea I never thought about - if your own kind of beauty wasn't validated by family, you tend to admire the opposite of what you are. Could be. Though I'm happy with what I am, I still do have to fight the nagging idea that you have to be brunette and buxom to really have style, attractiveness.
Mother never taught me anything about style - was herself brunette and buxom - and father vocally admired, say, Anna Magnani. How I love Magnani myself - was awed by a movie with her that I saw as a toddler. But I am short, fair and curvy in a more stocky way. This all makes a lot of sense as to why I am fascinated by Girl With Curves.
Of more general usefulness, I loved the ideas about how, in analyzing the differences in contrast and visual weight between your own beauty and that of your style crushes you could put that to use in developing 3 different looks: your natural contrast, how to dramatize that, how to get your own understated look.
