We grow up being told that beauty is the eye of the beholder. Everyone has their own opinion of what is beautiful and what isn’t. But we are all still confronted with beauty on a daily basis and still obsess over it day after day. Why do we care so much about beauty? What is that makes something more beautiful than something else? Can’t everyone be beautiful in their own way? We often think that beauty is how we appear to others but maybe it’s how we feel about ourselves and how we actually are as a person. According to the Merriam dictionary the definition of beauty is “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.” The ancient Greeks were among …show more content…
Women start to compare themselves to these stars and start to think that they will never be pretty like them. What people forget is these women have teams of makeup artists, hair stylist and clothes designers to put them together. We also stare at magazines and see the beautiful women on the covers where Photoshop has taken away all of that women’s little imperfections to make her look perfect and left little of who that women really is. We start to compare ourselves to this women who isn’t even real anymore and start to think of ourselves as not beautiful. Why do we believe that just because these women are beautiful that we aren’t? According to Dove, who launched a campaign for Real Beauty in 2004, reported that only two percent of the population would consider themselves as beautiful. In 2011, Dove did another study that found that only four percent of women consider themselves beuautufl and that seventy-two percent of girl ten to seventeen said they felt “tremendous pressure to be beautiful.” We have this image of what is beautiful and what isn’t and that influences what we start to think of ourselves when beauty is more than skin deep. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” -Sophia