CAKE Byte — Body Rock
It’s bathing suit season again and along with it comes all of the anxiety and stress of feeling good about our bodies. Maybe it's those changing room mirrors, or outrageous magazine covers of flawless models in skimpy bikinis, or our sun deprived skin, or the unrealistic expectations that we put on ourselves to look just right all summer long, but one thing is for sure - negative body image and summer can be a lethal combination. Feeling sexy half-naked is a constant challenge in this over hyped world of ultra unrealistic standards of beauty. It almost seems that body imagery in mainstream media has gone so far over board that our social gaze is trained to reject natural, real bodies instead of embracing them. Since body image, both positive and negative, is directly linked to our ability to experience pleasure, something needs to give.
Isn’t there another way? Yes, oh yes there is…
Malia Mills is a beauty company with a radical idea — promote a diversity of body images and types to sell bathing suits to women (pictured above.) One look at the Malia Mills boutique and catalogue and you get an instant glimpse of how the world of money, advertising and commerce can be transformed when a woman with a cause is at the helm. The Malia Mills experience is one suited to inspire women to look in the mirror and see what is right instead of what is wrong, and in the process changing the way women look at ourselves - not changing the way women look. Malia Mills is a female run business not predicated on advertising $$$ or selling a false image of women, but on the natural beauty of women's bodies - a concept any women can support and buy into. Her bathing suits allow women to show off our individual shapes and styles. Malia Mills uses real women with real bodies in a sexy revolutionary way. Her boutique is female friendly, customized to individual tastes and needs and has great mirrors to boot!
Let’s flip the switch this summer on body image. Walk around your apartment in the buff. Get used to all of your nooks, crannies, curves, bumps, freckles, muscles, smoothness, unevenness, nipples size, scars, dimples - they are all YOURS! Promote strength instead of skinny, pleasure filled experiences instead of sex appeal, being sated instead of starving. And of course get your sexy asses down to "The Return of the STRIPTEASE.A.THON" next Friday, May 17th, for the exclusive live taping of "Wild on E!" NYC!
Malia Mills — 199 Mulberry Street, NYC - www.maliamills.com
CLUB.CAKE
The Return of the STRIPTEASE.A.THON is your chance to switch up the standard approach to defining body image and express yourself! Let’s create a new definition of what makes women's bodies sexy and sexual and set new, groundbreaking standards by promoting a pleasure filled night of entertainment and expression. "The revolution will not be televised" — except on next Friday night at "The Return of the STRIPTEASE.A.THON." Make your BODY ROCK!
Tip of the Week
When getting a Brazilian wax, skip the tweezers.
Question of the Week
What are your favorite stripteasing fantasies?
Submit and read responses from last week's question in the REPORT section.
Love,
CAKE