Name Joan Darrow
Age Secret
Occupation Image-consultant
What do you think about your face?
I think that God
has given me a beautiful face. I’m very grateful for my face. I think
that a lot of things in my life has to do with my faith in God. With my
faith in God I express beauty, it’s coming from within me, from the
Holy Spirit. When I think of the Holy Spirit I feel like I’m projecting
beauty. So therefore I have a beautiful face, praise the Lord.
It’s also about accepting the face I
have. It has to do also with acceptance. I mean, I could go out and
have plastic surgery. And then I would look like a different person, so
why would I do that? I’m not ashamed of the way I look, but different person, so why would I do that? I’m not ashamed of the way
I look, but that’s definitely a spiritual thing. It’s not a worldly
thing, because the world says, Oh no, you go and you have this done and
you have that done, and…
I don’t wear very much make-up, because I don’t think it’s attractive. I don’t want to show off the make-up I’m wearing,
I want to show off my face because I am pleased with the way God made me.
Name David Lawrence
Age 23
Occupation Newspaper-boy
What do you think about your face?
I think my face
looks good. I think it looks mature, young - maybe a little rebellious.
It looks like it’s a little eager for something. Like if I saw a
picture of myself, and I didn’t know who the person on the picture was,
I would think that this guy has really got a goal. And so probably I’d
like to look a little bit like myself.
I’m an average person, but I don’t have an average
look. Even black people around my age and size… I’ve never really seen
anybody who looked anything like me. I’ve got that 21st anything like me. I’ve got that 21st century look to me. I’m only
23. At the same time I’ve got a loooong beard like an old man, but I
keep it shaved – there isn’t any grey in my beard, and I’m not loosing
any hair anywhere. Normally when I have my hair out females go crazy for me.
I can’t help it. God made me like that, I guess, and that’s another
reason why I figure my attitude is not average. When a lot of the
people that I feel are average get attention like that they turn a
little arrogant. See me, I don’t get ahead of myself. Because I always
know arrogant. See me, I don’t get ahead of
myself. Because I always know that it isn’t me who made me look like this. God made me look like this.
Name John Toriello
Age 55
Occupation Unemployed
What do you think about your face?
I would like to be
a little better looking than what I am - you know, boxing and
everything. When you get plastic surgery they don’t do the right work.
I boxed for three years at the Grammarcy Club in Manhattan. It’s a hard
business. You take punches, and sometimes you got to go home after the
fight and put a towel around your neck.
In the fight that I broke my nose in I had the guy out, but I made a mistake. I dropped my hand, and he caught me.
I broke my nose in ’73, but didn’t get it fixed till ’80-’81. I went to this doctor Reeding on Park Avenue, and boy, he did a job on me! He got a hammer
and chisel and rake and this and that… I say, "Oh, jeez, at least it’ll
come out…” Well, I – ahh… I wasn’t that happy with it, so I went back a
few weeks later, he says, “I can’t make it any shorter” - because they
measure the distance from your chin to the tip of your nose - and he
says, “It fits your face, what do you want”?
I wanted it smaller.
I wanted a Tom Jones-type of nose; you can barely see the freaking
thing. I just was always very, very self-conscious about my nose before
I started boxing. I’m Italian, andbefore I started boxing. I’m Italian, and you know; you’re born with a Roman nose, and I hate it.
People say I make more out of it than what it is. I say, “Fine, would
you like it”? and they say, “ … um, no thanks”. I’ll be honest with you
- I lost almost four million dollars in real estate. Since then I’ve
been taking antidepressants, so I don’t concentrate too much on… the
nose or anything like that.
