21/08/2026
I freaking love reality tv. I used to watch TONS of it, and I swear at one point, too many episodes of Ex on the Beach actually started to rot my brain - but I’ll talk about that another time.
But my absolute FAVOURITES are the makeover shows. Homes and cars, yeah sure, but people makeovers …. Top tier TV as far as I’m concerned. 10 Years Younger, What Not To Wear, Trinny and Susannah - even America’s Next Top Model - they had me glued for hours on end.
But not for the reason that you may think.
Because almost every single time … almost without fail I’d say …
I preferred her before.
I said it. I stand by it. Let me explain.
We all know that the beauty industry has women in a chokehold;
Wear this
Pluck that
Shave this
Squeeze into that
Don’t be too fat
Don’t be too thin
Don’t have too many muscles
Don’t show too much skin
You can’t wear that at your age
And my personal favourite …
Who do you think you are?
It’s an industry that has spent literal decades convincing us that women’s natural state needs correcting in some way; that we should all look like pretty, palatable mannequins.
Now, I don’t usually have a single complaint about Q***r Eye, it’s one of my favourite shows (thanks Ri!), but one episode in particular comes to mind. It was a lady in her 60s who had taught line dancing for ever, and still had long blonde extensions, huge eyelashes, and would NOT be removed from her daisy dukes and her cowboy boots.
I was instantly besotted with her.
She was ‘my kind of woman’.
So naturally, I was super excited to see her transformation. Until I saw it.
Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that TV are always kinda going for the shock factor. But for me, the shock is that after a lot of these makeovers, the women just look …. Sterile.
Boring.
Plain.
Average.
It feels like all their history, all their stories, all their COLOUR, has been dialled down.
And too many women spend too much time being dialled down for other people’s comfort, and I’m not here for it.
So if you're a woman who feels like she's been dialled down a bit - good news! I'm working on something specifically for you. Watch this space. It's going to be good.