What makes you beautiful?

Breaking Beauty Stereotypes

The idea of not conforming to the beauty stereotypes are highly influenced in media is expressed in the article of Lexie and Linsay Kite located in Salt Lake City. An interesting aspect about what Lexie and Lindsay Kite did is that they launched a nonprofit charity called, Beauty Redefined, with the motto "taking back beauty for females everywhere."

The point they addressed about "body shame" which is hatred of oneself; is a very sharp and accurate because there are so many downsides such as skipping meals or eating disorder which are directly related to our health.
 

Appearacne Affect Your Work, Your Career, Your Life

The Beauty Advantage article, in the Daily Beast, indeed affects the way you think about yourself. Even though appearance is not as much as important than any other aspects of your temperament, the media conduce that we might think we can’t get a job because of our appearance.

The article is definitely unresonable and ridiculous because it states that babies stare longer at good-looking faces than ugly faces. If this is really true, what is the standard of good-looking face? How can they calculate why babies look at people’s faces?

Meanwhile, businesses hire better-looking people for work. What is the point if only good-looking people get hired? Is appearance truly the most considerable thing when getting a job? If this is really happening today, are we really follwing it?
 

Body Confidence

Jo Swinson from CNN states that images of idealized body have preoccupied every level of our visual culture. We are already familiar to have slim bodies and wrinkle-free skin in all  media outlets; TV, magazine, and advertisements. Even though we know that they are fake and unrealistic images, we still pursue and seek those kinds of beauty.

I really like the point of this article about that since the media industry is so powerful enough to affect our culture of perfection, we should raise the profile of the body confidence agenda and oppose to our appearance-obsessed culture. To solve this problem, the author came up with an idea of encouraging individual’s self-esteem with media literacy and body confidence lessons in department of education. Furthermore, I think if parents guide their children to be confident within themselves then they would not need to conform to the Westernized standards of beauty.