"Beauty is not caused; it is." ~Emily Dickenson
Beauty is said to be 'an outstaning example of its kind. But is that the true meaning of being beautiful? That beauty is something that is best of its kind? No it is not.
When you think of something as beautiful, you tend to think of something that in flawless and perfect. Never would you imagine something beaten down and imperfect. For example, say you are describing a tree as beautiful (Gosh what is it with me and trees!); you would probably think of a tree full of life and has leaves, maybe even a few flowers. Most people wouldn’t picture a tree with no leaves and with almost no colour to it. Same goes with people, we link beauty with models and movie stars, not your average person walking down the street. So why do we think beauty has to do with appearance? Can’t it mean a beautiful soul?
Beauty should be based off of a person’s personality not by how they look.
I mean really! Basing beauty off of models does nothing for your self esteem. Nobody, not even the models themselves can live up to that kind of beauty. Its Photoshop people, everything you see of models are all photoshopped to be the perfect person, when in reality that is impossible to achieve.
Almost all beauty products all have ads and promotions that show the perfect person. These companies play with you self esteem, the way they are think is that as long as you have an unattainable dream more people will buy your stuff to try and get there. This is why I love the people behind Dove soap. Dove soap is one of the only companies working in beauty products that actually promote being yourself and not changing your appearance.
Dove has released many amazing commercials that support their idea. Here are just two of them:
P.S. Sorry if you can't look at the videos at school, please make sure you take a look at them when you get home!
When you think of something as beautiful, you tend to think of something that in flawless and perfect. Never would you imagine something beaten down and imperfect. For example, say you are describing a tree as beautiful (Gosh what is it with me and trees!); you would probably think of a tree full of life and has leaves, maybe even a few flowers. Most people wouldn’t picture a tree with no leaves and with almost no colour to it. Same goes with people, we link beauty with models and movie stars, not your average person walking down the street. So why do we think beauty has to do with appearance? Can’t it mean a beautiful soul?
Beauty should be based off of a person’s personality not by how they look.
I mean really! Basing beauty off of models does nothing for your self esteem. Nobody, not even the models themselves can live up to that kind of beauty. Its Photoshop people, everything you see of models are all photoshopped to be the perfect person, when in reality that is impossible to achieve.
Almost all beauty products all have ads and promotions that show the perfect person. These companies play with you self esteem, the way they are think is that as long as you have an unattainable dream more people will buy your stuff to try and get there. This is why I love the people behind Dove soap. Dove soap is one of the only companies working in beauty products that actually promote being yourself and not changing your appearance.
Dove has released many amazing commercials that support their idea. Here are just two of them:
P.S. Sorry if you can't look at the videos at school, please make sure you take a look at them when you get home!
Really, this video just helps prove my point on how they photoshop models making beauty seem so far out of everyones reach.
Many of you might have skipped passed this ad when watching a video on YouTube. This ad shows how bad womens self esteem really is. That women put theresleves down even if they don't even realized they are doing it.
If you take one thing away from my blog post, I would like that to be that just like Christina Aguilera said, "we are beautiful no matter what people say."
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