Because no matter what some people say…

No matter how many men are depicted wearing spandex in comics?

Lets be brutally honest here for a sec…

Not all superhero spandex is created equal.

In fact, in THIS instance?

[via Daily Mail] One small step for man, one giant (wobbly) leap for lazy, chubby girls — that’s how control underwear, and Spanx in particular, is viewed by the majority of us women who aren’t a perfect size 10.

They can slim thighs, flatten spare tyres, lift saggy backsides and make muffin tops disappear. Put simply: they are the David Blaine of the lingerie world.

Why go to the gym and do 16,000 sit-ups when you can just pop to Debenhams and buy a pair of knickers big enough to cover the  ? 

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Nor should it be.

For the most part (for the seldom few, such as Ryan Reynolds NOT included), when it comes to spandex, guys should just forget it…

For the sake of your pride, man, don’t even bother putting ON such a contraption.

The superhero spandex is NOT a flattering look for you at all.

However THESE pants, made for women, besides having HEALTH benefits?

[via Daily Mail] Although it’s summer, for the past few weeks I’ve been wearing a pair of black leggings with a dedication bordering on obsession. But let me explain  —  these are no ordinary leggings. Every now and again, a pair of ‘magic’ leggings hits our shelves, with claims to eliminate cellulite.

I’ve tried most of them: the ones with the double-layered mesh that massages your thighs as you move; those with ‘fat-busting’ ingredients bound into their fabric; and the ones with the waffle-like insides meant to improve circulation in the solidified, cellulite-ridden tissues of the backside and thighs (and thus slim them down).

But, frustratingly, none of them has produced a visible result. 

Alice says that although she has tried ‘magic’ leggings, with claims to eliminate cellulite in the past, none of them has produced a visible result

So when I was asked to assess the new Proskins leggings, I suppressed an inward sigh. ‘These things are all rubbish,’ I warned the publicist. ‘I won’t have a good word to say about them.’

But then she began telling me the how and  why, and added for good measure that word  of mouth is already making them an online sell-out. I was intrigued.

Proskins may look like a normal, if rather shiny, pair of black leggings, but their pedigree is very different. The company has been making technical sportswear for years and specialises in the compression leggings and  T-shirts worn by elite sportsmen to enhance muscle-recovery after exercise.

Miracle workers? The Proskins leggings

Post-sport compression-wear works in a similar way to socks designed to combat deep vein thrombosis when flying, or the stockings given to  people after operations to assist blood circulation while they’re in a hospital. The fabric exerts a gentle, comfortable squeeze on the limbs to improve blood flow and enhance lymphatic drainage.

The new ‘slim’ version of the leggings contains anti-cellulite ingredients, including caffeine (to boost circulation), retinol (to improve skin tone), and aloe vera (for skin-softening). These are packed into microscopic capsules and woven tightly into the yarn.

I rather doubted these ingredients would be able to exert any influence on the skin — or the cellulite beneath it — but have been shown clinical data to the contrary. Moreover, if you wear them for eight hours a day, for 28 days, trials have shown that you should lose 2cm from your waist and thighs. That did it. I grabbed a pair, put them on and — three weeks later — have hardly taken them off.

And what have I found? Once they are on, you hardly notice them, not least because their temperature-regulating fabric means that if it’s cold, they will hold a little more moisture and help warm you up, and if it’s hot, they will whisk moisture away from your skin to cool you down.

Three days after first putting them on, I set off with my family on a driving trip round Europe. At first they laughed, then feared for my sanity as I kept the leggings on, even as the temperature climbed to 30 degrees — I hid them under a maxi-sun-dress.They simply didn’t believe me when I said I wasn’t hot.

Something I soon noticed about the Proskins was their anti-water-retention effect, which meant frequent trips to the loo in the first few days. They also make your legs feel peculiarly light.

I don’t have a job that keeps me on my feet all day, nor do I suffer from heavy-feeling legs. But I can imagine that if you did, these would be a godsend. Also, they make your skin feel smooth, as if you’ve been using a moisturiser, even when you haven’t.

And even if you exercise hard and sweat like mad into them, they don’t get whiffy — thanks, apparently, to the anti-bacterial silver bound into their yarn — in fact, you need to wash them only once a fortnight.

I swear they’re smoothing out the dimples at the backs of my thighs, too, even though my holiday diet of pizza, ice cream and vino frizzante means I’m certainly not getting any slimmer (alas, no garment, however high-tech, is proof against sheer gluttony). [Read More]

Not as disturbingly grotesque.

In other words they look a lot more natural.

Does it make it sexists of me that I think men (Unless they are Ryan Reynolds) should NEVER wear spandex of any kind?

No.

And you want to know why?

Few seldom, if ever, can pull it off.