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(6,241 posts)She was looking at a magazine once. One of those fashion rags they sell at the grocery check out. The cover had this model on it. She said "She's so beautiful", like she was jealous of the woman's looks. So I showed her a 5 minute vid of what it takes to get a shot like that. The hours in the makeup chair. The hair. The exact right lighting. The Photoshop to remove all the "imperfections". Then I showed her the model's before picture, and a mirror. I told her that the model would probably look at her and say "Why can't I have eyes like that?"
But the #1 thing I'm always telling her is that her brain is the most important thing to develop. "Do your homework. Remember those women in the blue shirts that were monitoring Curiosity's landing? Wouldn't you want to do something like that? They worked hard to get there. They studied. You could be doing THAT in 20 years."