I was bored, what can I say. I stopped buying women’s magazines years ago, but when you sit at the hair salon getting a haircut, it’s either staring at your familiar, boring face as the stylist works, or picking a magazine and reading it. I chose the latter, and as I was reading, leafing through page after page, I was thinking, how can so much crap fit into one magazine? Of course I had to share it with you, so despite horrified glances from the stylist, I started taking pictures. Here it is – a thoroughly depressing collection of ads and editorials, aimed at women, from one of the top fashion magazines in the world.

Corpse Models

Models so emaciated, it’s a miracle their internal organs still function

Ads promising miracle creams to help us look young as we get older

Because old is ugly and women must not age.

Women becoming sexually aroused by jewelry

Women who look like lifeless dolls (supposedly this is cute?)

Women so flawlessly photoshopped, their skin appears to have no pores

And while many of us know this is photoshopped, many pre-teens and teens don’t.

Torture devices for feet presented as the height of fashion

Would a man ever agree to wear something this uncomfortable, let alone attempt to walk in it?

Being constantly reminded that we must freeze and erase our lines and wrinkles

The icing on the cake for this particular copy? The genius phrase, “Lashes are the new breasts.”

The non-skeletal, non-airbrushed Lizzie Miller in Glamour magazine was a welcome change from the above, as is the beautiful Christina Hendricks, but unfortunately, the vast majority of pages in most women and fashion magazines are still filled with crap.

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