Toupés, Tresses and Teeth

Observations based on watching the news on CNN

The teeth of some commentators look as bright as cars driving my way at night with their high beams on. Many apply dental veneers. Not subtle.. LINK My eyes are drawn to their impossibly perfect pearly whites like iron filings are drawn to a magnet,. Hard to focus on content when their choppers are show-stoppers. Even Fox News chimed in.

I’m used to TV anchors of both sexes using some kind of blush to give their faces a health glow. It’s taking a little longer to normalize hair pieces. For men, some toupées look more like helmets that could keep coiffed in a gale force wind. I’ll give a thumbs up if I ever see a commentator with messy hair. 

What gives? Are you less manly if you have thinning hair or are balding? Some black commentators look perfectly manly when they shave their heads. Fewer white commentators take that route. The way some men plop a toupee on a balding spot reminds me of what my lawn looks like after I spot seed my lawn with a dose of Scott’s Turf Builder. 

Female reporters and anchors have way more options. Buns, braids. extensions, ponytails, bangs, chignons, all to perfectly match their hair color.

Rampages from global warming, mass murders, wars in the Ukraine, Sudan, upheavals in South America causing mass migration towards the United States are unsettling reminders of chaos. IMHO, viewers connect with commentators better when anchors’ appearances are predictable and unchanging, offering some kind of stability in a world that seems anything but.

Comments

[Susan Bennett]

Dear PT- This made me smile. As always your observations are accurate and well written. 😊 XO

[Susan Sullivan]

Always an acute observer of everything around you. Hope you're healing well.

[Paul A Tamburello, Jr aka pt at large]

Thanks, Susan,
Some veneers appear natural, others like those worn by CNN Alison Camerota are high beams. Last night it appeared that every woman on her show wore them. I guess this is botox for the teeth!
PT

[David Connor]

You nailed it!
Great piece (pun intended)

[Rita Towsner]

Hi Paul,
I'm always uncomfortable seeing the women newscasters wearing sleeveless dresses in the dead of winter. What's that about?
Rita Towsner

[Bill Pignato]

Very good one Paul

[Gerard McMahon]

Well said, the news is like a Hollywood show with the way they dress and their teeth and hair!

[Paul A Tamburello, Jr aka pt at large]

I kept noting how so CNN many reporters used ‘adornments’ to enhance their appearance. When their teeth/veneers became, at least for me, so unnaturally prominent in their appearance, I got out my notebook.
Thanks for your comment

[Paul A Tamburello, Jr aka pt at large]

Rita,
More to think about when female anchors in studio have bare arms. Has that style showing skin become a marketing/ratings point? And yes It does seem out of such when we New Englanders watch TV during the winter.
I’ll bet there has been tons of market research to determine who wears what on the set.
Thanks for the observant comment.
PT

[Paul A Tamburello, Jr aka pt at large]

While doing research, I found this story on Fox News story, of all places, way back in 2015!
https://www.foxnews.com/story/blinded-by-the-white-teeth-go-beyond-pearly