Women will be in charge: Tyra Banks predicts the future

Supermodel Tyra Banks makes bold predictions from hair trends to cosmetic surgery
Supermodel Tyra Banks makes some bizarre beauty predictions
Sarah Allidina9 July 2014

Tyra Banks, creator and executive producer of America’s Next Top Model, made 10 predictions for the Wall Street Journal about what the future holds for the fashion conscious.

The 40-year old model wrote, ‘as I look to the future, I see radical changes in both how people ‘attain beauty’ and how the world perceives beauty.’ Ms Banks confessed that she believes that uniqueness will be a key quality in the future.’

Most significant in her list of 10 were:

Skin color and features will mesh into a similar shade for the majority of people. Typical features and colouring will lean toward a Rihanna or Beyoncé or me kind of look. People with alabaster or ebony skin will be rare and heralded for that uniqueness.

The features of one's baby will be as selectable as menu items at a fast-food drive-through window. Blue and green eyes will become so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye colour.

Women's empowerment will be an irrelevant concept because the balance of power between the sexes will have shifted dramatically. Women, in control of when they can have children (up to age 120!), and having more degrees and education than men, will be in charge. Men will be responsible for 70% of cosmetics sales and plastic-surgery procedures world-wide. Why? Men will be vying for women's attention, obsessed with being attractive to females and snagging well-off ladies who can take care of them.

Forward-thinking Tyra also commented on more profound issues and foresees that prejudice will be ‘socioeconomically based’ as prejudice based on physical features will no longer exist if skin colour and features are similar.

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