cherly's 'life changing' moment ?

May I just say that Cheryl Cole's life has been life changing a long time before any Vogue cover. Her life was 'life changing' when she got a membership for Girls Aloud, when she married a wealthy footballer and when she confirmed her status as a top celebrity as the newest judge on the X-Factor panel. All these factors have influenced the woman we see and love today.

Her on the cover of Vogue isn't 'life changing' as Heat magazine has claimed. It may be a highlighted milestone in her life but no way life changing. I know Vogue is the fashion bible of the world but it's not like Anna Wintour will be checking out her picture. On the cover of the main Vogue (America's) would have been something to write about but its only the English edition of the magazine, 19 different countries publish their version in total. Her being on the cover of the English version just confirms her climb up the celebrity ladder-thats all! In no way does it do anything got to with fashion and for that reason its not life changing.

Why am I annoyed about this? For her simply being on the cover of the English edition of Vogue does not change her life in any form. Her life has already changed for many other reasons (as listed earlier)other than being the cover girl of a magazine!!!

i got my head shaved

Woo-hoo

No, they aren't pictures of me, I'll get to why Colin Farrell is there in a short while.

It's true, I used to have long hair. In fact I was often mistaken to Jesus. The only difference my hair was in fantastic condition. It was long, silky, never seen a split end or a ghd whereas I'd hate to wonder what product went into that man's hair. It came to the point were women envied it, so much that I was dragged to a salon by a woman (Etain Kidney) to get rid of it.

Do you know what though? I have no regrets. As each hair fell swiftly on the ground I smirked with happiness. I hid this carefully though, hate for Etain to get a bigger (than she already has) head. For once, I felt I could walk down the crossfires of Kilnamanagh without anyone rising their head to see if I was a girl with a beard. Being a gay man, I no longer felt like the raging fairy that flew across the scene (secretly i still am, just hiding it better with a shaved head and a boyish walk I learned to adapt from my Tallaght peers).

Then I look in magazines and see the likes of Colin Farrell with long hair and I'm like what the hell was I thinking. He don't look hot with long hair, he looked hot with short hair. Now, look at the pictures above (understand the usage now?), it is clear Colin is hotter with short hair-what the fuck is he thinking? Maybe he's taking on my own advice which was that every man should attempt to grow their hair once and see the results. Lucky for me I was hot with long hair, Colin ain't! I don't like to be the one to say it but it's true.

I understand why David Beckham, now with a shaved head showing off his golden balls is making millions. The reason-it's hot. If he had the hair he once frolicked around with, it would like a Baywatch advertisement in black and white. That may sound good but not in relation to guys-to cheesy! Shaved head and in a black+white shot-HOT!!!(I add the capital letters with male perspiring passion).

Don't get me wrong some men, like myself, can get away with long hair. These people are Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. And they are hot in every way a man should be. If anything they are properly hotter with the length (Antonio Banderas in Assassins, point made).

My point in the end of the day, Colin should shave his head and I'm a happy camper with my new short hair do.

icon?

I adore Britney Spears. At first it was the delight of seeing her new video on MTV every 3 hours (how times have changed), to see what she was going do next either a magazine cover or performance. Yes it may have being mimed but it was still damn good. Look back at the earlier MTV music awards performances and tell me they don't have some credibility.

I know things began to take a slippery slope but it made me love her even more. She became my Madonna, my Micheal Jackson, all of whom have had their share of mistakes but still hold their crowns firmly. Although I screamed at the annoyance and disappointment of her doing something stupid again, i was engrossed! Her presence on my computer was never put on hold, even though i was angry with her. I could never quite stop reading in hope that it would get better, that she would get better!

You could say I became one of her children. Many may rise their brow at such a statement. However you must think about what I'm about to say. When I say children, I speak of fans. Fans an extremely important factor to any artist and no one can deny the shit us Britney fans had to put up with, in the last three years. No other fans would put up with it, maybe with the exception of Madonna. Britney fans are more than your normal 'boyband tag along' fans, we stay for the long haul. For that reason I'd never question her legacy. She has kept her army of fans and they're the only ones that matter in the end of day. People who diss her aren't going to buy her albums, it's the people who stick by her who will. You may claim that she'll never sell as much as she use too, but no artist will ever sell the amount that were sold back then, times have changed, music has changed.

I feel I'm beginning drift off the point. The bottom line is and you haters better learn to accept this, Britney is an icon. She's an icon because she has survived. She delivered the goods, kept giving and ten years later she's still giving. We seen her dark days, the media would not let you forget it but she's back. Maybe not to her peak but you have to remember it was only this January that she was strapped to a stretcher been brought to hospital for an psychiatric illness. What she has achieved so far this year is astonishing. She has told us that she, "goes through life like a karate kid". To me that defines her as icon. Why? After all she achieved, to have fallen so far from the top and get back up to reclaim her title so gracefully, she has proven she can kiss ass-wouldn't you consider that iconic?