Ah the Suicide Girls… everyone’s favorite pale-skinned, dark-haired, inked-up illicit Internet vixens. Over the years they’ve come to capture our hearts and our hands, giving the proverbial middle finger to traditional notions of beauty and proving to the world that alternative can indeed be attractive.
What began as a veritable playground for a handful of girls and women who would otherwise be shunned by the more conventional-minded, has essentially blossomed into a worldwide phenomenon. Live shows and DVDs represent merely a fraction of the offshoots the site has given birth to, not to mention popularizing the modern tattoo trend as we know it.
Log on to the site these days, and the shock and awe of yesteryear is no longer prominent. Piercings, jet black hair, Betty Page bangs and, of course, the site’s trademark tattoos no longer elicit the same mystique and intrigue as when the world was first introduced to SG. Why? The answer is simple. Society has normalized and wholeheartedly embraced the look that once alienated a SG from the “normal” female.
One need look no further than, well, anywhere for that matter to find what many would deem that signature SG look.
Take a gander on the site itself, or browse the SG MySpace page and the realization becomes abundantly clear. There are even girls on the site these days that haven’t a lick of body ink anywhere to be found.
That’s not to say the girls aren’t still attractive or unique in a number of ways… rather the opposite. The women on the site remain as beautiful as ever… maybe even more so today than in years past. What once made them aesthetically exceptional, however, no longer distinguishes them from the crowd. Thus, it begs the question, “Where do they go from here?”
It’s hard to say when every 18-year-old and their mother are getting chest pieces and septum piercings, but perhaps the more “normal” women, which are rapidly becoming a staple of the site, are a sign of things to come. Maybe normalcy (whatever that term denotes), in the physical sense, is going to inadvertently become the new taboo.
It makes sense from a fundamentalist perspective, as life has long been considered to be cyclical. As the adage goes, “Trends come and go;” but even the expression itself blatantly hints at the notion of pop culture making a resurgence at some point in time. Maybe now is the time for normalcy to become the new abnormal. Wrap your head around that for a few… I’m off to go get more ink.
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