Beauty Icon Wednesday: She's a Wonder... Wonder Woman!

Name: Born in December 1941 as Diana of Themyscira, a Princess of the Amazons, before she became First Class Petty Officer Yeoman Diana Prince; the world knows her best as Wonder Woman.

Known for: a patriotic sense of style, her practical use of accessories, and having one of the smallest waistlines in television history.





Every little girl (or gay man, for that matter) who grew up in a certain timeperiod will have at least one childhood memory in common. Twirling round and round in a circle on the spot, and to turn from the mild-mannered girl they usually were into that super-hero of comic book and television fame, Wonder Woman. She's an integral part of the female collective unconscious. And why wouldn't she be? Wonder Woman, perhaps even more than the other DC comic-book characters, had the coolest and above all useful gadgets: bulletproof bracelets to protect herself from the lesser-evolved bad guys, the Lasso of Truth with which she could bring them to justice, and an invisible plane with which she can quickly jet off her next assignment.

Okay sure, the red and gold corset with blue star-printed hot pants would be less than ideal in our Canadian climate, but she's an Amazon princess. She doesn't even feel the cold when she's busy fighting crime! And yes, I'm well aware that Wonder Woman is not real, that she is a character who began life as a drawing in a comic book. But really, would that make her so much different from any of the Hollywood starlets or pop sensations we tend to base our ideas of beauty on? Aren't they in their own way just as fictional?

Wow...that was a little too deep for a Wednesday night, wasn't it? Sorry about that - I really didn't mean to turn this week's Beauty Icon Wednesday posting into some feminist treatise on the amalgamation of fiction and beauty throughout pop culture history. But it appears that half-degree in sociology is rearing its ugly head once again at the most inopportune time... Pardon me whilst I put it back in its cage.

Back to the important bits: how was Wonder Woman's hair able to spin effortlessly from a tightly secured, Diana Prince bun to a perfect Seventies bouffant blowout complete with gold tiara? And where did she find a lipstick that matched so seamlessly with the red in her breastplate? That, my friends, is talent.