Comments on: Beauty Colosseum

By: James (admin)

James (admin) — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:15:10 +0000

Haha, I remember the Frankenstein one. She was pretty ugly, but her teeth weren’t shooting out of her head.

I imagine that a lot of the overweight girls who lost weight regain their weight after the show. It’s also unlikely that they’d be able to afford expensive hair treatments, but who knows.

I see plastic surgery commercials and advertisements all the time. I’m guessing it’s probably just a matter of time before Japan catches up to South Korea in plastic surgery.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:41:56 +0000

Dude! You missed the one about the woman they called Frankenstein. She was seriously hideous and now looks semi normal, although she is real tall. i would like to see them like 2 yrs later to see if they have enough staying power to continue doing their ultra modern make-up and dye jobs…

By: Orchid

Orchid — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:22:48 +0000

I think this is essentially a Japanese version of the Fox show “The Swan” which takes locks women up for 3 months and has them undergo diets, exercise routines, dental work, counseling, and plastic surgery so they can more closely resemble societal ideals of beauty. I haven’t seen the Japanese version but the focus of “The Swan” is on the fact that these women have low self-esteem and hate themselves because of how they look, not that others shun them because of their looks.

I think both shows are a reflection of the loss of shame over being shallow in most cultures. That is, instead of people being taught that judging people harshly on their appearance is a sign of their own character weakness, they’re taught that everyone does it so you’d better do whatever it takes to look better. In essence, the responsibility to change is now on the judged rather than the judgers.

By: Darin

Darin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:56:15 +0000

Yea, this show made me sick when I was watching it too. The girl with the teeth sticking out got pitty from me, but not the rest. But what got me even more, was how it was sponsored by the cosmetic surgery ‘hospital’ that did all the work on the ‘contestants.’

Did you see the commercial they aired for themselves? “If I was my nose was only a little taller… If my this, if my that was just a little this or that…” And the message at the end? “Help bring peace to the world.” World peace? Plastic surgery? That’s disgusting.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:20:01 +0000

Uggh, I hate that show! In the Spring they had a special where some young lass had been dumped by her boyfriend for being too fat, so she wanted to slim down so she could win him back.

Being so thick as to think that a guy who is so shallow as to dump you for being a few kgs overweight is worth trying to get back is hardly an admirable personality.