Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 23:32     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
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Anonymous wrote:The two on the right look great. The one on the left is the only one that looks basic.

Out with the Birkenstock Crew.


I don’t think you know what basic means. You can look good and basic at the same time. All of them look basic. 2 of them look better than the third. That’s all.


Adding, though, that Carrie Coon is my fave of the three. She’s the best actress for sure.


The Carrie Coon character not looking as attractive as the other two looks to be a plot point. It does keep coming up (remember how the other two were going on about how "You look amazing" and "no you do" and awkwardly leaving her out and she was right there?).


I personally find Carrie Coon to be the most beautiful of the 3. And, at the same time, I’m so trained to unconsciously read appearance signaling that I also found her the least “you look amazing”. My brain kept switching back and forth.


She's the least altered of the three. Leslie Bibb is the oldest and she's in great shape but she's also had a lot done to her face. Monaghan's work is more subtle but she's still had quite a bit of work done. Coon is the youngest but clearly the least "touched." I would be somewhat surprised if she doesn't at least do Botox for big events, but when she acts her face looks really natural and I really don't see evidence of anything. She takes roles that are not necessarily flattering and seems to lean into her natural looks (beautiful but aging naturally, looks more like a middle class woman than a movie star) while the others lean more heavily in their beauty and probably have more invested in maintaining it.

I wonder if they laughed about this while filming -- the fact that their characters acknowledge having work done that is probably reflective of what the actresses themselves have done. Or if it was just not acknowledged.

Anyway, even if she's the least "preserved" of the group, Coon is the one I'd most want to look like because she's pretty and fit but looks her age and looks at home in her skin. I would take that over looking more dramatically gorgeous but having to maintain a lot of procedures and feeling the pressure if that all the time. It would be nice for a minute but long term it's too much work for me.


Leslie Bibb has had too much work done. It doesn't look natural or good. She would be prettier if she had not done whatever she has had done bc like so many women who do that, she looks strange. And Moynahan is gorgeous but teetering very close to the edge. She is someone who would age so beautifully and does not need to do "work." I really don't understand why women don't think they can age and still be beautiful.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 23:26     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
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Anonymous wrote:It is very effective wealth signaling. You have to have the spare time and bandwidth to be hitting the gym 5 times a week. My wife (43) looks like this and, props to her, it's a lot of work. But I definitely appreciate it.

At 44 I could pull off a tiny bikini and I spent zero hours in a gym, just walking and doing some floor exercises and intermittent fasting. I am not rich and work for a living. After 50 it's a different ballgame due to hormones and none of these ladies are over 50.


Yup. I worked for it starting in my early 20s, eating clean and working out every day. That worked well through my 40s.

Hitting menopause & mid 50s changed the game. To have a thin body, with a youthful looking face, is not possible without intervention.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 23:16     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
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Anonymous wrote:The two on the right look great. The one on the left is the only one that looks basic.

Out with the Birkenstock Crew.


I don’t think you know what basic means. You can look good and basic at the same time. All of them look basic. 2 of them look better than the third. That’s all.


Adding, though, that Carrie Coon is my fave of the three. She’s the best actress for sure.


The Carrie Coon character not looking as attractive as the other two looks to be a plot point. It does keep coming up (remember how the other two were going on about how "You look amazing" and "no you do" and awkwardly leaving her out and she was right there?).


I personally find Carrie Coon to be the most beautiful of the 3. And, at the same time, I’m so trained to unconsciously read appearance signaling that I also found her the least “you look amazing”. My brain kept switching back and forth.


She's the least altered of the three. Leslie Bibb is the oldest and she's in great shape but she's also had a lot done to her face. Monaghan's work is more subtle but she's still had quite a bit of work done. Coon is the youngest but clearly the least "touched." I would be somewhat surprised if she doesn't at least do Botox for big events, but when she acts her face looks really natural and I really don't see evidence of anything. She takes roles that are not necessarily flattering and seems to lean into her natural looks (beautiful but aging naturally, looks more like a middle class woman than a movie star) while the others lean more heavily in their beauty and probably have more invested in maintaining it.

I wonder if they laughed about this while filming -- the fact that their characters acknowledge having work done that is probably reflective of what the actresses themselves have done. Or if it was just not acknowledged.

Anyway, even if she's the least "preserved" of the group, Coon is the one I'd most want to look like because she's pretty and fit but looks her age and looks at home in her skin. I would take that over looking more dramatically gorgeous but having to maintain a lot of procedures and feeling the pressure if that all the time. It would be nice for a minute but long term it's too much work for me.


I’d rather look like MM but admit she looks the most made up/worked on to me.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 23:00     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
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Anonymous wrote:I think outfits like that should not be worn in a restaurant.

People that concentrate too much on fitness and dieting are often pretty boring conversation partners. They talk about stuff related to that soo much.


It's not just "a restaurant." It's a wellness resort in Thailand, where people are expected to wear clothes like that -- they'd just had their biomarkers done by a personal trainer.


OK, that only makes it mildly more acceptable. I would be sooo bored in a Thai wellness resort. For one thing, I appear to be one of the rare people who doesn't enjoy getting massages from strangers. I'd rather be drinking a limeade, fully dressed, at the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 22:41     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:The two on the right look great. The one on the left is the only one that looks basic.

Out with the Birkenstock Crew.


I don’t think you know what basic means. You can look good and basic at the same time. All of them look basic. 2 of them look better than the third. That’s all.


Adding, though, that Carrie Coon is my fave of the three. She’s the best actress for sure.


The Carrie Coon character not looking as attractive as the other two looks to be a plot point. It does keep coming up (remember how the other two were going on about how "You look amazing" and "no you do" and awkwardly leaving her out and she was right there?).


I personally find Carrie Coon to be the most beautiful of the 3. And, at the same time, I’m so trained to unconsciously read appearance signaling that I also found her the least “you look amazing”. My brain kept switching back and forth.


She's the least altered of the three. Leslie Bibb is the oldest and she's in great shape but she's also had a lot done to her face. Monaghan's work is more subtle but she's still had quite a bit of work done. Coon is the youngest but clearly the least "touched." I would be somewhat surprised if she doesn't at least do Botox for big events, but when she acts her face looks really natural and I really don't see evidence of anything. She takes roles that are not necessarily flattering and seems to lean into her natural looks (beautiful but aging naturally, looks more like a middle class woman than a movie star) while the others lean more heavily in their beauty and probably have more invested in maintaining it.

I wonder if they laughed about this while filming -- the fact that their characters acknowledge having work done that is probably reflective of what the actresses themselves have done. Or if it was just not acknowledged.

Anyway, even if she's the least "preserved" of the group, Coon is the one I'd most want to look like because she's pretty and fit but looks her age and looks at home in her skin. I would take that over looking more dramatically gorgeous but having to maintain a lot of procedures and feeling the pressure if that all the time. It would be nice for a minute but long term it's too much work for me.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 22:22     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
Anonymous wrote:It is very effective wealth signaling. You have to have the spare time and bandwidth to be hitting the gym 5 times a week. My wife (43) looks like this and, props to her, it's a lot of work. But I definitely appreciate it.


At 44 I could pull off a tiny bikini and I spent zero hours in a gym, just walking and doing some floor exercises and intermittent fasting. I am not rich and work for a living. After 50 it's a different ballgame due to hormones and none of these ladies are over 50.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 22:11     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:The two on the right look great. The one on the left is the only one that looks basic.

Out with the Birkenstock Crew.


I don’t think you know what basic means. You can look good and basic at the same time. All of them look basic. 2 of them look better than the third. That’s all.


Adding, though, that Carrie Coon is my fave of the three. She’s the best actress for sure.


The Carrie Coon character not looking as attractive as the other two looks to be a plot point. It does keep coming up (remember how the other two were going on about how "You look amazing" and "no you do" and awkwardly leaving her out and she was right there?).


I personally find Carrie Coon to be the most beautiful of the 3. And, at the same time, I’m so trained to unconsciously read appearance signaling that I also found her the least “you look amazing”. My brain kept switching back and forth.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 22:09     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
I’m a rich lady who loves Canyon Ranch and the like, and I think very few women look like that even at a fancy resort. Not that many of them are even that thin. They’re playing it like Carrie Coon is the ugly duckling but only because she’s standing next to generational talent.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 22:07     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
Anonymous wrote:These outfits look outdated to me. Are people really wearing this outside of a resort gym?


I mean they are at a resort gym, right?
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 22:00     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
I agree, they all look so put together and well manicured but still casual and somewhat laid back. I’m a fan of the look even if it is basic.

Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 21:54     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
Anonymous wrote:I think outfits like that should not be worn in a restaurant.

People that concentrate too much on fitness and dieting are often pretty boring conversation partners. They talk about stuff related to that soo much.


It's not just "a restaurant." It's a wellness resort in Thailand, where people are expected to wear clothes like that -- they'd just had their biomarkers done by a personal trainer.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 21:40     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
These outfits look outdated to me. Are people really wearing this outside of a resort gym?
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 19:04     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
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Anonymous wrote:It is very effective wealth signaling. You have to have the spare time and bandwidth to be hitting the gym 5 times a week. My wife (43) looks like this and, props to her, it's a lot of work. But I definitely appreciate it.


So weird that someone's husband is reading and commenting on the beauty forum. Also, it's not that hard to look good at 43, fyi.


Not as hard as looking good at 60, I grant you. But it's still pretty hard, given how many not hot women I see in their 40s. A lot.


I think it really depends on when you actually go into menopause. That's when things get tough.


+100
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 19:03     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
I think outfits like that should not be worn in a restaurant.

People that concentrate too much on fitness and dieting are often pretty boring conversation partners. They talk about stuff related to that soo much.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2025 19:03     Subject: I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The two on the right look great. The one on the left is the only one that looks basic.

Out with the Birkenstock Crew.


I don’t think you know what basic means. You can look good and basic at the same time. All of them look basic. 2 of them look better than the third. That’s all.


Adding, though, that Carrie Coon is my fave of the three. She’s the best actress for sure.


Also not in in her 50s or 60s. She's 44 FFS.