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Article: TUCK, PAD, COLOR, WHITEN: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LOOK WITHOUT SURGERY FAKING IT.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 16, 2003
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Byline: SUSAN PHINNEYP-I reporter
Just about everybody fakes it.
From makeup to highlighted hair, fake nails to shape-enhancers, adorning and enhancing our bodies is a habit, a way of coping with the lyrics, slogans, adages and images that bombard us from cradle to grave.
"Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative," has been an influential ideal since Bing Crosby crooned it decades ago. Today it's Missy Elliott rapping "See my hips and my tips" in "Work It."
Computer-enhanced photos of Oprah and other celebrities looking svelte and years younger gaze at us from magazine pages along with ads for lip glosses that promise ...