Category: beauty

There are many different opinions surrounding beauty pageants. People try to argue that they give contestants the wrong impression about what beauty should look like and what standards women should be trying to achieve, but the pageant world is changing now more than ever. Contestants are competing with more than just their looks. Things like…

The society we live in somehow confused healthy and happy for thin and beautiful, that is, beautiful according to what the media has told us is beautiful. As women, the models in advertising are how women are supposed to look. They are the ones that set the beauty standards and say what body type is…

It is people’s instinct to like to be beautiful. On average, time spent on appearance contributes 7.7 hours of young girls week time (Dahl, 2014). This phenomenon reflects teenagers high attention to external beauty. The standard of beauty changes with the elapse of time, and under the influence of appearance-based phenomenon, it is more important…

Every day we are bombarded with mass media on ideal feminine beauty. From female models on the cover of Vogue to female contestants on the latest reality TV series, women are presented with a limited perception of what people consider to be beautiful. Rather than simply agreeing with the media, we need to consider that…

Beauty is mostly referred to how people thought about themselves. If people are revered of their outlooks or intelligence, their self-esteem will cumulatively increase, and they would feel beautiful. However, most people recently are being insecure about their appearance and start to make-up, color their hair, purchase stunning dressing or even seek for cosmetic surgery…

We surround ourselves every single day using technology and looking through social media watching the latest posts on public figures we follow. We tend to always seem to run into a certain image that is defined as the beauty standard of the moment. Although beauty has evolved within the years many see it as an…

The word beauty is far more than what our stereotypical society may think it is. When you think of the word beautiful, what do you think it is? Well, many people would answer that question with something like: tall, slim and long hair. This is because the celebrities, models and social media influencers we see…

American beauty has been wanting to be achieved by millions of men and women in the U.S. for decades and the desire now has reached to other countries. This is problematic due to the fact that Americans have put a standard of beauty upon both men and women that are not achievable for those who…

The Harsh Reality of Unrealistic Beauty Standards Karen is a seventeen-year-old girl who has been affected by the effects of having a negative body image (Phillips, Atala, and Albertini, 1995). She frequently compared herself to others and obsessed about many of her body features that she thought of as imperfect (Phillips et al., 1995). Karens…

The standard of beauty has changed throughout the years, but the one thing that hasnt changed is how women have been forced to conform to the standards set by the media. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was set in the 1940s, a time when white beauty standards deformed the lives of black women. Upon…