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Is Black Still Beautiful? For my daughter’s sixth birthday, in addition to the bounce house and homemade chocolate cake, she wanted one gift specifically and she let everyone who asked know. “A brown baby doll, one that looks like me,” she told us. Without any prodding from an adult she recognized that What If I Am Ugly? The question came to me quite a few years ago, in a moment of solitude. What if I am ugly? After all, beauty is all in the eye of the beholder, right? So it’s possible that some people might not find my face and body pleasing to behold. “Blondes are noticed but redheads are never forgotten”…Unknown Redheads make up only 2% of the population. As a member of this minority group, I have learned to appreciate being unique. As a child, I remember all the sweet elderly ladies who would pat my head and say, “Oy, if I could only get this Silver Hair? No! Colored Hair? No! Choose One! Silly me. I believed that by letting my hair return to its natural color (silver?) I would naturally progress along the Sage Woman’s path. This return-to-natural began a year ago, as I approached the big six-oh-dear! day in December. Six months later When I started working on the Authentic Me Campaign, I had a goal…To redefine the word BEAUTY in this country. As a woman pushing 60, one of my concerns was the way society viewed my age group. I was annoyed at the messages I was receiving from the advertising world. If you want to I am thirty-six years old and three months shy of my thirty-seventh birthday. I am a young man whose grey hair, life experience and old soul belie my age. I am a man who will not dye my hair and who will not hide my wrinkles or scars because in each lies a As we embark upon a new paradigm of thinking and functioning, I no longer watch television, read mainstream magazines, or keep up with “popular” culture. For too long, there has been a huge gap between what real consumers need and what is actually advertised as “needed.” Do not be deceived by monstrous-sized companies  |
Previously a columnist for The Asheville Citizen Times, Rapid River Magazine, and Savvy Discounts, Debi also created and hosted a radio talk show called "You've Been Caught... Being Nice!" Debi and her husband Richard have four chidren, one granddaughter, and are the owners of JDR Cleaning Service, Inc. Richard is a North Carolina Real Estate Broker.
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Copyright © 2012 Debi Drecksler - All Rights Reserved
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Debi Drecksler's passion is writing for and about the "guy on the street."
