What Makes you Beautiful

When buying a magazine or looking at commercial ads, we are not thinking, wow,  they got a really good air brush. We think I wish I could look like that. Not even realizing the model just had a really good photo session and the finishing results was air brushed. The main point is for people to stop buying into the misconceptions of beauty because ninety-nine point nine percent of what is shown on television is fake!

 We need to have self-acceptance and be joyful of our God given assets. The sad part is that we’re taking absolute measures to emulate what we see. Kids in high school want to have plastic surgery and are suffering from bulimia, low self-esteem and self-hated. “Approximately seven million girls and women struggle with eating disorders and 1 million boys and men.” We are always trying to perfect ourselves as if there is something wrong.

According to this blog, Media Boost Conformity, it goes back in to Greek times. Back in the day  Greek God’s were measures of perfection. The people in those times aspired to be just like them. Yet the people never attainted what they had because they were all unattainable and can be rarely imitated.  The God’s did not even look like them. They made the artist design the statue of what their accrued image of perfection looked like.

It’s pretty ridiculous that, “80% of women are dissatisfied with their appearance.”  Well I hope we feel that way because we are so focused on educating ourselves to do better in math and science. To solve our problem of this psychological disease, we must build self-confidence. People will save tons of dollars if they can simply be happy with self. This process can start with the parents for minors and a reality check for adults.

The media is so overwhelming that the masses end up believing everything it displays.  Everyone does not need to clone themselves into looking like Pamela Anderson, or whoever their favorite celebrity is. If we only we understood that social media beauty advertisements seen on televisions and on the web  as well as in magazines are computer generated; then  maybe society would  feel  and be a whole lot better.

There is nothing wrong with admiring a celebrity, wearing make-up and getting dressed up, the problem occurs when you become obsessed. When you’re getting Botox and having implants implanted, and your face reconstructed at 25,  I think there is something is extremely wrong. Check out the Dove hyperlink.  This was interesting seeing the Dove beauty campaign. It entailed the beginning and the end of what it takes to create an ad.