Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Beauty born or manufactured
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Mirror, Mirror on the wall.
“The business of beauty and what
you can do about it”
A K2 Vista Film Production
What is beauty?
“ A quality attributed to whatever pleases or whatever pleases or satisfies the senses or mind”
Definition of beauty
Only 2% of women feel comfortable comfortable describing
themselves as beautiful
Source: Campaign for Real Beauty
Why is that?
19th century industrialization facilitated a facilitated a worldwide homogenization of beauty ideals
Beauty became associated with Western countries, white people, and
with women
Weapons of Mass Deception
• Mass Media + TV + Cosmetics industry = a commodity for the everyday woman.
Materialistic society
“if you have it you should should flaunt it”
To present
Beauty Industry is
a $330 Billion Billion global
industry
Media saturation of saturation of
beautiful people
Hollywood and Beauty pageants reinforce global reinforce global homogenization
Beauty mania continues in 21st
centuryBeauty mania continues in 21st
century
Mass media
Body sculpting
Objectification
AnorexiaBulimia
Only see one dimension, their physical
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physical appearance
Beauty Myth is ideal and unrealistic
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"Even I don't wake up
:
wake up looking like
Cindy Crawford."
Cindy Crawford
Objectification
What is Objectification?
Being represented and perceived as an perceived as an object (your body) rather than as a person.
Why object to it?
It dehumanizes and strips away identity of a identity of a person by reducing them to body, or just parts of her body.
Cultural Ethnocentrism
We tend to regard our own culture’s customs as highly culture’s customs as highly “civilized” and others’ as
“savage”.
Women want whiter skin
Beauty Is Born ... and Made
Many winning Pageants contestants secret formula is body sculpting and
plastic surgery
Plastic Surgery Includes
• Breast augmentation,• Liposuction• Nasal surgery• Eyelid surgery• Eyelid surgery• Abdominoplasty
Going under the knife
• In US Over 12.5 Million people underwent plastic surgery
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
And it can go wrong
Or badly wrong
The Brazilian Model--Ana Crolina
When she was
healthy…
After she was sick… Reston died of Anorexia
So what are the answers?
• Here’s a start
Back to basics
• See, appreciate, natural beauty
Back to basics
• More to beauty than cosmetics, clothes, perfumes,….
You are unique, you don’t need to abuse your body
Understand modern beauty is manufactured not real• The “Evolution” video uses time-lapse photography to
illustrate how much a model’s natural appearance has likely been modified in an advertisement
Images taken from “Evolution,” available at http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/dsef07/t5.aspx?id=7373&filmno=1
Beauty is the whole you Inner and Outer
Inner Beauty
Psychological qualities like:• Kindness• Sensitivity• Compassion• Compassion• Creativity• Intelligence.
Outer Beauty
Includes physical factors, such as:
• Health• Youthfulness• Youthfulness• Sexiness• Symmetry• Complexion
So Beauty is about the whole self.
• "O God, as You have made my appearance beautiful, beautiful, likewise make my character beautiful.“ Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
Understand standards of beauty change over time
"I wanted to go through to the Miss England finals to break the stereotype
Go against the flow
break the stereotype that you have to be tall and skinny to be considered beautiful.“ Chloe Marshall, Runner Up Miss UK
Be Accepting
Of who we are, not making any alterations to it.
Be Accepting
Dress Modestly
We must believe
• That all of God’s creation is beautiful, because He does not create anything except with beauty and perfection.
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