Susan Boyle makeover

[Jester]

I had a huge problem with this.

Not with Boyle getting the makeover. Or with her getting the attention. I say better her than yet another spoiled Hollywood tart.

No, my problem is with the article's quote of one of the show's judges, saying before the makeover, in essence, that Boyle should not get a makeover because "we love her for who she is." Well, shit, woman. If you love her for who she is, what is wrong with her being who she is, but with a new do and some brow plucking? She is saying, in essence, that what made Boyle was the fact that she looked like a toad and sang like a princess, and she should not go mucking that up. Very easy for a woman to say when she is young and pretty. Personally, I think the judge should let Boyle enjoy the limelight, get a makeover if she so chooses, and shut the fuck up!

[Lace Neil Singer]

If Susan feels better about having a bit of "me time" at the hairdressers, who cares? Why shouldn't she get her hair done and buy some new clothes? I agree with Jester; it's alright for some young, pretty bimbo to bleat "Wah wah, Susan shouldn't change her appearance, she should stay looking frumpy cuz we love her that way", but it's pretty obvious that Susan is not changing her appearence at all. All she did was get a new hair style, not plastic surgery! Jeez. -.-

[iradney]

Personally, I think she looks lovely. It's not like she went and got lip and hair extensions and lip fillers. I'm glad she plucked her eyebrows, however, now they frame her beautiful eyes and bring attention to them.

[One-Fang]

I'm with Jester. I think that was a particularly callous thing to say. Basically "We only love her cos she's goddam ugly".

She hasn't had plastic surgery or a lap-band surgery, she hasn't employed a $100,000 stylist. She's had her hair dyed and a bit of makeup done. Whoop-do.

I think there's some leg room in the 'accept her as she is' policy. Would proponents of this say that nobody should ever change anything about themselves? Got an ugly hair do? Leave it - don't even try and get it done more stylishly. No, I think there's something wrong with that approach.

The woman has worked with what she's got. She certainly could have stood a little style improvement, and she's done it. Good on her. I hope she doesn't discover a need to lose 80lbs before anybody will buy her records, but this? This is minor. This is uplifting for her.

You go girl.

[PepperElf]

and to be honest, she CAN'T have plastic surgery.

it usually changes the resonance of the voice if you start messing around with facial structure.

and what she had done looks nice. i definitely wouldn't call it a makeover, just simply what any regular person might et done