UK beauty booming
Beauty is booming in the UK, but TV shows on beauty don’t get the same chunk or airtime
as food, fashion or interiors. There are several makeover shows, 10 Years Younger and How to Look Good Naked, which basically boil down to ‘before’ and ‘after’, so in an attempt to redress the balance, BBC Three’s Freya inspired, Beauty Season has scheduled real documentaries about the industry, offering alternative views on physical attractiveness and devoted to exploring the construction and consumption of beauty.
10 Years Younger, a show that sets out to find some poor wretched so and so, bully her into plastic surgery, dental work, new hair, make-up and complete wardrobe overhaul. And How to Look Good Naked, a show designed to encourage size-16 plus subjects to be proud of their bodies instead of going under the knife.
So the new Beauty season on BBC Three offers a refreshing look at beauty, with their new headlining show ‘Britain’s Missing Top model’. The show is watches eight disabled contestants battle it out to win a modeling contract with Marie-Claire. The contestants live together in a Big Brother-type house, and are filmed twenty-four-seven in the reality show/talent contest.
We noticed this discussion late last week, judges send home one contestant each week after having completed different photo shoot and catwalk tasks. The show raises debates about what can be seen as attractive and surround issues like choosing someone with a visible disability - an amputee or paraplegic, or someone whose disability is not visible like a deaf or partially blind person, suffering from a debilitating condition.
