glamour

Anna Aroma loves Glamour!

Glamour requires vision. That’s why extremes are often glamorous: the blondest hair , huge sunglasses, insanely high heels.You can’t be very young and be glamorous..(in fact, age is a plus), because glamour is tied up with knowledge.It implies a  good dose of “been there” and “done that”. It oozes sex, and relies on worldliness, but that doesn’t mean you have to have travelled the world to be glamorous.

What it does mean, is that in some  way -by hook or by crook-you’ve seen or done or read enough to have a certain expansiveness of mind  and attitude..In fact, glamour is a kind of invitation to others-it’s something that has to be shared,witnessed and enjoyed.           

That’s what is so wonderful about glamour! Why it’s irrestible and seductive!  It doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but is about discovering and sharing a certain joy in the luxury of things. Glamour is intrinsically linked to pleasure. It is about pleasing the senses, but not necessarily one’s own, and it certainly isn’t about drowning them. (that’s hedonism).

That may help one live a glamorous lifestyle, but it can’t make one glamorous. Ostentation is a very different beast from glamour.You can’t buy glamour, and you can’t fake it. But unlike beauty, it’s not something you are born with, though it comes more naturally to some than others. Best of all, you don’t have to be glamorous to partake of it. The light glamour casts,  shines brightly.. and all you have to do is revel with me,  Anna Aroma, your Manchester Glamour Puss! x Anna