The male Dove spoof ad with the tagline: ‘Men. You’re Less Beautiful Than You Think’ is obviously a joke, but is there some truth to this theory? Both used an FBI-trained forensic artist to sketch two blind version of each , but while women only saw their own flaws, men described themselves as movie-star handsome. Unfortunately, the women saw the guys as something ‘straight out of Mordor’.
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Celebs started the trend for pre-marital background checks moving into the realm of the first three months – Britney Spears reportedly asked her new boyfriend Dave to sign a confidentiality agreement and pass a background check before taking their relationship further.
So what’s involved in a ‘Boyfriend Background Check’?
Private investigators verify Identity, Address, Financial Stability, Employment, Property, Marital Status, and Moral Character.
Some people think that it’s paranoid, but I think it’s crazy that some people do less research on the history of a person we let into our homes (and vaginas) than the condition of a used purse on Ebay. Think about it: Have you ever dated a guy who wouldn’t take you back to his apartment? Are you sure he’s ‘separated’, or just separated for the night? A boyfriend background check definitely would have saved me a ton of time in my 20s.
What do you think? Would you ever want a Boyfriend Background Check?
Men are having plastic surgery to get more masculine facial definition.
Details reports that the square jaws seen on Jon Hamm, Michal Fassbender and Daniel Craig are ‘in’, while the dainty chin and more ‘boyish’ look of Leonardo DiCaprio, Zac Efron and Tobey Maguire have become yesterday’s news. ‘There’s less of a desire now for a conventionally beautiful white-bread face,’ Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, an associate professor of plastic surgery at UCLA School of Medicine, told the magazine.
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And their demands are getting more and more bizarre.
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Dolly Parton once famously said ‘there’s a reason the Hollywood Hills are in the same part of the country as Silicon Valley’. But in an era where laser hair removal is considered a part of everyday grooming, ‘I haven’t had plastic surgery’, seems to translate to ‘I’ve never sliced into my face’. For most people Botox, fillers and laser treatments don’t count.
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