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In 2017, most women have the need to look the prettiest and the gorgeous female ever. Unfortunately, that need leads women to hide their intelligence to show their beauty perfection. In my opinion, the most problem facing women in this time is the enormous amount of effort spent to show the effortless perfection to others. In a result, people will assume the beauty perfection of women is natural while it mostly comes from the plastic surgeries, diets, workouts, and the beauty make up too.

Have you ever thought of what true beauty means? In the article “Pop Culture Is Destroying True Beauty” by Rachel Drevno, she explains how pop culture and the media are influencing people to believe that they aren’t good enough because they don’t look a certain way. The beauty Drevno discusses are the actors and celebrities in commercials, movies, and magazines. She believes that people are trying and changing themselves to look like those in commercials or movies because that’s how standard beauty has been portrayed. I strongly agree with her argument because the media only presents images of attractive, beautiful, and sexy figures.

As I grew older I noticed a pattern in society. The world puts beauty standards and push them to women, but when women try to reach for this beauty standard they are called “fake”. They keep saying that “natural women are better women” but when they keep shaming girls without makeup. Boys say “it would be awesome if girls liked sports just as we do” but when a woman says that she likes football, they start questioning her and calling her an attention-seeker. The point is that women can't be women, they are expected to wear makeup, but not really, they are expected to be kind and want kids. They have to be the women that men

In 1959, Barbie was created and sent the world, including every little girl, into a frenzy (Unknown). Barbie was the new thing; she was beautiful, blonde, and seemingly perfect. Children and parents even to this day both want to be just like the blonde haired, blue-eyed bombshell. It is obvious people will go through whatever measures to be plastic just like her. An overwhelming amount of Americans teens are choosing to change their appearance to fit into a highly unrealistic and unattainable standard of beauty that was created and forced upon us by our physically obsessed culture. There is no doubt that teens feel an enormous pressure to look “beautiful” and feel obligated to do whatever necessary to reach “perfection.” Contrary to what many believe, American teens, like most teens around the world, are actually falling out of the cosmetic epidemic. Even though surgery numbers are still high, the total numbers have actually reduced over recent years. Nonetheless, teens still seek perfection from the heavy burden placed on their shoulders by the media, peers, and, in rare cases, even parents.

What do you think of when you see a model, or someone famous? You might think of how perfect and beautiful they are, but is that really them. Media places an unrealistic value on women's beauty, which is harmful to women of all ages. Society is making women feel like beauty comes from the outside, not the inside. Women think that they have to look like photoshopped women and be like that perfect image they see on a screen or magazine, and sometimes they feel like the only way they can achieve this is by doing something drastic or feeling horrible about themselves. Some believe that society isn’t the reason for these problems, but they are because society allows photos to be digitally altered to be the norm for what beauty is and expected to

anywhere you look around us and the number one thing that they think is that they are not as perfect as everyone else. According to Judith Burns, she started a survey. They rated 61% needed to be perfect, 66% thought they were not pretty enough and 80% thought that looks were the only thing important about themselves and others. Even as young as seven years’ old had a percentage of 23% needing to be perfect and 38% of not feeling pretty enough. Judith Burns, Pressure to be perfect hits girls’ confidence, says guides. All these people wanting to be perfect which leads to cosmetic surgery. In the article False Beauty in Advertising and The pressure to look ‘good’

Recently, model, singer, and actress Zendaya did a photo shoot and upon the pictures being released she made an Instagram post revealing how the photo was retouched with lighting and camera filters to manipulate the image. She made a statement stating, “These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have. Anyone who knows who I am knows I stand for honest and pure self love.” With that, Zendaya took it upon herself to release the real picture. In response, the magazine took a swift step to pull the magazine and have the images restored to their original, natural state. If models and celebrities are not really as thin and flawless as the images we see of them, how can anyone possibly fulfill the beauty ideal that they represent? In her book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf criticizes the media for the flawless and unrealistic illusions created by makeup artists and photographers, arguing that such unobtainable perfection invites young women to compare their unimproved reality to physical ideals that do not really exist (CITATION). According to one study, 69% of girls claimed that magazine models influence their concept of the perfect body shape (CITATION 3). The pervasive acceptance of this unrealistic body type creates an impractical standard that is damaging to the body images of

Today’s world attention is towards models, athletes, and music videos to see what perfection is defined as for men and women. Though with these people who are doing these things have additional help to be the perfect models for men and women. This idea of perfection is having bad outcomes to everyday people by way of them seeing themselves as not great or needing to go to extreme ideas to get their bodies to look like these photoshopped heroes. This idea in the world now has many impacts when we look at these people as perfection instead of growing up naturally and accepting what we look like and who we are. These outside outliers of the population that are defined as perfection has a negative impact on everyday normal people looking at them as the ideal look.

The standards of women since early history has always been set to an unrealistic bar, that make girls around the world feel insecure and unworthy of being beautiful. Society has cemented views of women and what they “should” look and act like based on things like makeup, body figure, clothing, etc. Women from all places are urged to alter their appearances in order to fall into the category of beautiful. The impulse for women to “paint their face” is due to the fear of other people not seeing them as attractive (Warren par. 7). The perfect female is thought to have flawless skin, perfect make up, and a slim body. Hiding behind a full face of makeup discriminates women themselves, as it hides their genuine glamor and disguises their true

How can one bring self-love into their life? Being a teenager is all about creating who you want your identity to be and being very conscious about appearance (“Body Image” 92). One has a difficulty in believing and understanding the way in which the human body is (92). No perfect weight for one’s height, one’s muscle mass, one’s bone structure and one’s family genetics exists (92). The body is able to gain and lose weight with proper exercise, to an extent (92). Think of a human body as a best friend, a thing that deserves the right treatment and care. With providing proper nourishing foods and self-respect, the healthier the body will be (93). Having self-love and providing positivity towards all body images will bring the confidence of you as well as others up (93). Self-love is defined as a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support physical and psychological growth (90). As one matures they understand and know their body more than anyone will. Within the growing and maturing stages of life, one can take their self love to a whole new level. Little steps closer to loving and accepting oneself can make the path of life a lot

Throughout history, people have yearned for perfection. Since the beginning of time, this view of perfection has changed. Both men and women struggle with the same problems when it comes to perfection: body shape and size, looking beautiful, seeming glamorous, and finding success. Too frequently, the pressure to act and look perfect increases, but has the pressure to look and act perfect become too much?

You wake up to the buzzing sound of your alarm and turn over to hit the snooze button. Eyes dry as a desert and hair as crazy as a lion’s mane, you begin your typical morning routine. When you turn on the light, it burns your eyes and you begin to rub them for comfort. As you stand there in front of the mirror after brushing your teeth and washing your face, you stare at your reflection and pick out all the imperfections that you see. To be more comfortable about your appearance, you begin to cover your flaws with make up and accessories. Why is that? Why do we put ourselves down just because we don’t look like the models in advertisements or magazines? Colbie Caillat successfully, through her lyrics and symbolism in her music video for the song “Try,” encourages women of all ages to embrace their imperfections and to love themselves for who they are.

In specifically America, the desire to be considered beautiful has taken over the lives of many individuals. The aspiration to be perfect comes from the immense pressure put on women by society. Individuals are trying to avoid the aging process by getting multiple plastic surgeries done in order to stay ¨beautiful¨ and ¨young¨. But does being beautiful mean that one has to alter the natural way they appear into something one is not? In our society today, this may perhaps prove to be valid. Everyday an ordinary person sees beautiful faces placed on billboards, magazine covers, television and the media. Even though in most cases photoshop is involved to alter one 's physical looks, women, young or old, feel discouraged and form a drive to

Everyone wants to be beautiful. What is beauty nowadays? Is it flawless skin, long blonde hair, and skinny waist and thighs? This is what beauty is for most women. Beauty is very predominant in a women’s world. People have their own perception of beauty, but we are all heavily influenced by society as well as the media. The things that the media inculcates into our minds are the things that we contemplate very often. Every time we see a celebrity or a model on television or a magazine we want to be just like them. Sadly, we cannot be like them, as much as we tried. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, and we cannot define beauty based on what the media portrays even though many women do so. The media has a negative effect on women and throughout the years we have been trying to have that “ideal” body according to the media through surgical enhancements and many other things, which causes eating disorders and a low self-esteem.

In today’s society, perfection and physical appearance is extremely emphasized. Perfection has no specific definition, it is an opinionated word. Everyone has their own view of perfection, but society tries to manipulate people into having the same idea of perfection as everyone else. Nowadays people feel a responsibility to fit into today’s society, they want to be better due to society’s influences. The troubles with society’s view of perfection is that it changes people’s perspective in having an idea of what people should look like, it has caused many people to have eating disorders and it creates false stereotypes.