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This essay talks about all that goes on about idealistic beauty these days. You know, with the whole Hollywood thing with models, actresses, all that jazz? Well here is a little inside look about how it's not at all what it should be, and how terrible it can really be.
In magazines, TV shows, product endorsements and even movies, they portray people-mostly women-to have this unrealistic look of gorgeous beauty, as if saying "If you buy this product, or do this and that, you will look like this". Well, that is a load of BULLSHIT.
You know those commercials for hair products? How the models all have this long, flowing, shiny, flawless and amazing hair? Or even the photos? They make us all believe our hair will look like that if we use the product they're advertising. Well people, that's not true.
They have teams of proffessional hair stylists, fancy lighting, illegal hairspray, photoshopping, makeup artists, the whole nine yards. That's how they create the model's hair to look unrealistically shiny and gorgeous.
It's absolutely ridiculous! It makes us all think "Oh my God! She has gorgeous hair! I have to buy that so I'll look like her!". Well people, you won't. It may make your hair look nice, yes, but it will be not at all like you saw it on the commercial. Seriously, why can't they have just taken the model, have her wash her hair with that product, and then show it on camera without all the fancy work done to her? It may not look as good, but at least it'd be realistic!
It's also sad how they create the models to look drop-dead uber gorgeous, making us all believe we'll look just like them if we buy their product. I find that so degrading. We will NOT look like that tan-skinned, long-haired, small-bodied curvy Goddess if we buy some kind of cream to moisten our skin! Seriously, what do they have against making the model look NORMAL, with maybe some regular makeup? Huh? What, so scared we'll go "Oh eww, she's not beautiful! We can't buy that!"...please. I think they'd sell A LOT BETTER if they portrayed the models realistically! Nobody looks like that, and no one ever will. The only way to look like that is through hours on end working with a team of specialists and lighting and photoshopping. Sorry ladies, that's the sad truth.
It's so sad how girls pick up a magazine and see these gorgeous, skinny, tall, tanned and long-haired ladies in underwear or whatever and just think "I want to look like her...". It's as though they're portraying what women should look like. That we should all be skinny, tanned, and looking all like Goddesses. I think it's incredibly degrading and insulting. We should all have the choice to look how we want. Hollywood's influence is incredibly stupid. They make us all believe that if we're not skinny and gorgeous, we have no future and no purpose to live, nothing good will come to us.
Like, take Hollywood actors, and actresses. A lot of them are all beauty but can't act. And yes, there are some that are very attractive and ASTOUNDING actors! I've also seen actors who aren't exactly good-looking, but the fact that they're good actors makes up for it perfectly! C'mon, when I go see a movie or watch a TV show, I don't give a crap on how good-looking the actors are! I want to see some good acting, because it's the talent that matters the most. I would rather watch a movie filled with unnatractive actors but can act tremendously, as opposed to a movie filled with beautiful actors but who can't act to save their lives. Think about it people, do the looks matter? No. It's the talent.
Hollywood makes us all believe we have to lose weight and look gorgeous in order to be happy. And that's the only way we'll ever get work there. Any size bigger than 2 and we've got no chance. And you've seen Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and some other stars who were unhealthily skinny. That's Hollywood's favourite look, they're saying that's how we should look. Yeah, uh, HELL NO. They didn't look glamourus at all! They looked like SKELETONS. They looked DISGUSTING. I don't see anything attractive about having arms the size of toothpicks, seeing ribcage bones, having no figure, and looking like you haven't eaten in months. No. What is so attractive about it? They look like they're annorexia nervosa victims! Ladies, this is NOT how we should look.
Back to what I said earlier about how an actor's talent to act is more important than how they look, a person's values on the inside; their gifts, their intelligence, their talents, their personality, all that jazz, is what is truly important. Just because they look a certain way, does not make them who they really are.
An attractive girl with great clothes, great body and makeup can be a horrible bitch.
A less-attractive girl who has meat on her bones, dresses as she wants, can be the sweetest girl you could ever meet.
Now I'm not making that biased, because there are attractive women who are wonderfully nice and less attractive women who are bitches. But it doesn't matter, because it's not about how they look.
I'll use myself as an example. I'm overweight, I have meat on my bones, I'm curvy, I'm fairly attractive and not gorgeous. But inside, I'm a very nice and friendly girl, I have a good sense of humour and I love to laugh, I'm really good at writing, I love art, I'm a nature lover, I'm honest, good with kids, helpful, fairly responsible and caring. I have my flaws like any other person, of course. But the point is, I may not look like Jessica Alba, but I think my personality and talents outshine my looks anytime. Most may not think so, since all they care about is looks, but I know a lot of people who value me for who I am and not how I look.
My friends, my family, I value them because of the people they are inside, not about how they look. I look at a person by their personalities, not based on appearances.
I would rather have a girlfriend (yes, I am a lesbian) who is not very attractive, but is the most wonderful girlfriend you could ask for, as opposed to a gorgeous girl who is a horrible bitch. The same goes for men, because although most men say they want to date super models, they just want a nice girl who would love them for who they are, and vice versa.
Another thing also, there are people out there who think they are better than everyone else because of the way they look. Well, that's not true at all. No one is better or lesser than anyone, and certainly not because of the way they look. No way. Looks aren't everything. Just because you're beautfiul, does not put you above everyone else.
Back to Hollywood actresses (and even actors), I feel really bad for them because they are always pressured to look beautiful and weigh less than 100-whatever pounds. It's so sad. They get paid millions of dollars a year, and always have to look amazingly gorgeous. If they're seen on the streets without their makeup on and in clothes that fashion people would frown upon, they pick on them! Well hello?! They have lives of their own and deserve a right to privacy! They're people just like us. And on their lazy days, um, hello? They're not all dressed up in their red carpet gowns and looking all glamourus with their proffessional makeup jobs. No, they're sitting around the house watching TV in their "lazy" clothes, or going shopping or taking their dogs for a walk, whatever they choose to do!
So all in all guys, icons of idealistic beauty are just not what encourages all of us to take care of ourselves. We don't need to look like those Hollywood models to get by in the world. We never have, and never will have to.
Now, I'm not at all saying you shouldn't take pride in your appearance. There's no reason you can't spruce yourself up to look nice for a party or a date or even just for a day at your job! There's nothing wrong with that, it's nice to show that you take care of yourself and make yourself look presentable in a way that you're comfortable with.
And also, feel good about yourself. Take a look at the wonderful qualities you have about yourself and just remember what a great person you are. If you learn to love yourself, people around you will love you also.
I hope this essay was informative and helpful, and if there is a topic within this category I may have missed, let me know and I'll add it!
Thank you! (:
In magazines, TV shows, product endorsements and even movies, they portray people-mostly women-to have this unrealistic look of gorgeous beauty, as if saying "If you buy this product, or do this and that, you will look like this". Well, that is a load of BULLSHIT.
You know those commercials for hair products? How the models all have this long, flowing, shiny, flawless and amazing hair? Or even the photos? They make us all believe our hair will look like that if we use the product they're advertising. Well people, that's not true.
They have teams of proffessional hair stylists, fancy lighting, illegal hairspray, photoshopping, makeup artists, the whole nine yards. That's how they create the model's hair to look unrealistically shiny and gorgeous.
It's absolutely ridiculous! It makes us all think "Oh my God! She has gorgeous hair! I have to buy that so I'll look like her!". Well people, you won't. It may make your hair look nice, yes, but it will be not at all like you saw it on the commercial. Seriously, why can't they have just taken the model, have her wash her hair with that product, and then show it on camera without all the fancy work done to her? It may not look as good, but at least it'd be realistic!
It's also sad how they create the models to look drop-dead uber gorgeous, making us all believe we'll look just like them if we buy their product. I find that so degrading. We will NOT look like that tan-skinned, long-haired, small-bodied curvy Goddess if we buy some kind of cream to moisten our skin! Seriously, what do they have against making the model look NORMAL, with maybe some regular makeup? Huh? What, so scared we'll go "Oh eww, she's not beautiful! We can't buy that!"...please. I think they'd sell A LOT BETTER if they portrayed the models realistically! Nobody looks like that, and no one ever will. The only way to look like that is through hours on end working with a team of specialists and lighting and photoshopping. Sorry ladies, that's the sad truth.
It's so sad how girls pick up a magazine and see these gorgeous, skinny, tall, tanned and long-haired ladies in underwear or whatever and just think "I want to look like her...". It's as though they're portraying what women should look like. That we should all be skinny, tanned, and looking all like Goddesses. I think it's incredibly degrading and insulting. We should all have the choice to look how we want. Hollywood's influence is incredibly stupid. They make us all believe that if we're not skinny and gorgeous, we have no future and no purpose to live, nothing good will come to us.
Like, take Hollywood actors, and actresses. A lot of them are all beauty but can't act. And yes, there are some that are very attractive and ASTOUNDING actors! I've also seen actors who aren't exactly good-looking, but the fact that they're good actors makes up for it perfectly! C'mon, when I go see a movie or watch a TV show, I don't give a crap on how good-looking the actors are! I want to see some good acting, because it's the talent that matters the most. I would rather watch a movie filled with unnatractive actors but can act tremendously, as opposed to a movie filled with beautiful actors but who can't act to save their lives. Think about it people, do the looks matter? No. It's the talent.
Hollywood makes us all believe we have to lose weight and look gorgeous in order to be happy. And that's the only way we'll ever get work there. Any size bigger than 2 and we've got no chance. And you've seen Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and some other stars who were unhealthily skinny. That's Hollywood's favourite look, they're saying that's how we should look. Yeah, uh, HELL NO. They didn't look glamourus at all! They looked like SKELETONS. They looked DISGUSTING. I don't see anything attractive about having arms the size of toothpicks, seeing ribcage bones, having no figure, and looking like you haven't eaten in months. No. What is so attractive about it? They look like they're annorexia nervosa victims! Ladies, this is NOT how we should look.
Back to what I said earlier about how an actor's talent to act is more important than how they look, a person's values on the inside; their gifts, their intelligence, their talents, their personality, all that jazz, is what is truly important. Just because they look a certain way, does not make them who they really are.
An attractive girl with great clothes, great body and makeup can be a horrible bitch.
A less-attractive girl who has meat on her bones, dresses as she wants, can be the sweetest girl you could ever meet.
Now I'm not making that biased, because there are attractive women who are wonderfully nice and less attractive women who are bitches. But it doesn't matter, because it's not about how they look.
I'll use myself as an example. I'm overweight, I have meat on my bones, I'm curvy, I'm fairly attractive and not gorgeous. But inside, I'm a very nice and friendly girl, I have a good sense of humour and I love to laugh, I'm really good at writing, I love art, I'm a nature lover, I'm honest, good with kids, helpful, fairly responsible and caring. I have my flaws like any other person, of course. But the point is, I may not look like Jessica Alba, but I think my personality and talents outshine my looks anytime. Most may not think so, since all they care about is looks, but I know a lot of people who value me for who I am and not how I look.
My friends, my family, I value them because of the people they are inside, not about how they look. I look at a person by their personalities, not based on appearances.
I would rather have a girlfriend (yes, I am a lesbian) who is not very attractive, but is the most wonderful girlfriend you could ask for, as opposed to a gorgeous girl who is a horrible bitch. The same goes for men, because although most men say they want to date super models, they just want a nice girl who would love them for who they are, and vice versa.
Another thing also, there are people out there who think they are better than everyone else because of the way they look. Well, that's not true at all. No one is better or lesser than anyone, and certainly not because of the way they look. No way. Looks aren't everything. Just because you're beautfiul, does not put you above everyone else.
Back to Hollywood actresses (and even actors), I feel really bad for them because they are always pressured to look beautiful and weigh less than 100-whatever pounds. It's so sad. They get paid millions of dollars a year, and always have to look amazingly gorgeous. If they're seen on the streets without their makeup on and in clothes that fashion people would frown upon, they pick on them! Well hello?! They have lives of their own and deserve a right to privacy! They're people just like us. And on their lazy days, um, hello? They're not all dressed up in their red carpet gowns and looking all glamourus with their proffessional makeup jobs. No, they're sitting around the house watching TV in their "lazy" clothes, or going shopping or taking their dogs for a walk, whatever they choose to do!
So all in all guys, icons of idealistic beauty are just not what encourages all of us to take care of ourselves. We don't need to look like those Hollywood models to get by in the world. We never have, and never will have to.
Now, I'm not at all saying you shouldn't take pride in your appearance. There's no reason you can't spruce yourself up to look nice for a party or a date or even just for a day at your job! There's nothing wrong with that, it's nice to show that you take care of yourself and make yourself look presentable in a way that you're comfortable with.
And also, feel good about yourself. Take a look at the wonderful qualities you have about yourself and just remember what a great person you are. If you learn to love yourself, people around you will love you also.
I hope this essay was informative and helpful, and if there is a topic within this category I may have missed, let me know and I'll add it!
Thank you! (:
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I agree on this. Too many people worry about appearances now a days, never what people are on the inside. :C
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Beauty Lies Within
But I know in the end it'll never work -_- Because I've tried one of those popular shampoo (I won't say the brand) Which is quite popular since we've been seeing the commercial like everyday. Instead of making my hair 'smooth', 'silky' bla bla bla ... it killed my hair D: Now my hair is dry like twigs LOL And it kind of ruined the black colour of my hair, I can't describe it but it's 'BROKEN' now haha wrong term to use but anyway that's the result of those stupid products -_- T_T My hair ~~~ (if you want to see my hair, ask me :) )
So what if we're overweight or obese? It doesn't change the fact the true 'beauty' lies within the heart :O God doesn't judge us by our appearance. God would have killed everyone who is fat and not attractive if He's being discriminative and everyone who lives on Earth would be SO charming, cute, sexy and bla bla bla bla
Believe me, Cass. If anyone says you're not attractive and all that, someone would still love you for your warm heart :) If not, we'd never have met each other! And you wouldn't have Ange! <3 (and Deidara lol )
p.s: I think you're attractive! Stop saying you're the opposite! Because I say so!
Re: Beauty Lies Within
I have a friend who is obese, and I don't care! She's an awesome person but it's sad that she has to go through so much crap because of her weight. And being skinny so much that your bones are showing? I just want to puke, it's disgusting!