on beauty

It's one of those days where I'm hating the TV for putting all these images in our heads and changing the way we understand "beautiful."

i.e. Beautiful is being thin and having white skin.

We see all these ads trying to sell us "fat eliminators", and drinks that supposedly help us burn fat faster. What disappoints me the most is this advertisement of a whitening lotion made for teens, because "if you start with white, you start right," or something like that.

To those people who created that product AND ad I want to yell, "Back off, you jerks!" Beacause we teen girls don't need you to make us feel any worse about ourselves. Don't you think we've got enough problems to deal with already? Boys, school, hormones - and now you're adding to that list self-image!

Did you know that 92% of girls say they want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance (with body weight ranking the highest)? Two thirds of women around the world, from fifteen-year-olds to sixty-year-olds, avoid basic activities of life because they feel badly about the way they look. (http://campaignforrealbeauty.ph)

. . .

Which makes me wonder, how many girls in the world can really say they feel beautiful?

Tell a girl she looks beautiful today.

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  1. my fave model, kelly misa, once said in an interview that before she does photoshoots, she looks at herself in the mirror and notes three features she loves about herself ::) apparently, it works! ::D

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