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Different back back to school looks for all the goths , sporty chicks and art kids

What is beauty?

What is beauty to me? Wikipedia describes beauty as a thing that is pleasing to the eye.

A lot of brands tend to shape what beauty means to try to make a profit. Clothing campaigns run a risk of making many customers’ feel insecure about themselves. When a person does not have the same body type or style as the models in the campaign self criticism and internal body shaming commences. A recent example that has caught attention and shone a light on these harmful business practices is the company Victoria’s Secret. The Victoria’s Secret bran features “skinny” girls with large breasts who have an hour glass figure in their ads and discount any other body style. So many women do not share the body type that Victoria’s Secret showcases as the “example” leading so many of us to negatively self talk ourselves and become depressed with our bodies. The discussion that has been occurring around social media platforms is that it is not just women who now have a warped sense of what a woman should look like but also men realizing that they too have bought in to the ads thinking that a woman is “less than” if she does not compare to the example set forth by companies like Victoria’s secret.

Another example is the store Zara and how their sizes tend to fit very small. The negative impact that Zara is sharing to their customer’s is that women that usually fit a smaller size in other stores are having to “size up” at Zara and most will not realize the sizing is off the norm. Women will beat themselves up and put pressure on themselves to lose weight just so they can fit into the store’s idea of size number on the tag and to fit into their ideal of being thin and only slightly curvy. Feeling insecure about how our bodies don’t compare to the look in the ads can lead the consumer to take extreme measures to change themselves to fit the new “pretty” ideal; leading to depression and potential distorted eating patterns.

Makeup industries are another sector that prey upon people’s insecurities with their facial features. You can easily see the manipulation by observing makeup stores. The layout of the popular cosmetics stores of Sephora uses a colour scheme of black and white so that your eye catches the contrasting colours of the “limited time” pallets with high price tags. The skin care can be found way further back and out of the way in the store. It seems to be an afterthought for stores like Sephora. Sell the makeup first to solve people’s “problems” instead of suggesting skin care which if a proper regime is found would cause an amazing base for the least costing cosmetics. People buy more and more makeup looking for a solution to hiding bad skin instead of trying to help their skin build a healthy base.

Everyone views beauty differently but we seem to be all be racing to fit into the same little mold that the popular companies show us in the media. There is a movement that is circulating primarily on social media about “Silver Sisters” which is women that are choosing to embrace their grey/white roots and stop dying their hair. The comments that women will receive on video in places like Tik Tok will go from very supportive to downright mean. Women have been reported to loose their jobs since society has been conditioned that they are now “old” and grandma like and have now lost their worth. I think that women with their natural hair can look very stylish and elegant and I see more than just the colour. Some women have beautiful curls or edgier style with their natural colour, I am glad that people are starting to recognize that there is nothing wrong with aging gracefully as it is a privilege that not everyone receives.

I personally work hard to embrace the idea that at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter what other people think of you and all that matters is if you like yourself and you feel pretty. It would be much easier to embrace this self acceptance mind set if the various fashion brands started to promote a culture of self acceptance, I know it would spread to the entire population towards a positive shift overall.

There is a lot of different ways to slowly build your self confidence. Some ways to try to build self confidence is to try new things to enhance your natural beauty.

You can research your personal colour palette (colour draping) so that your skin tone is complimented in the colours you choose in your wardrobe. A fun way to experiment is coming up with inspiration for outfits online and looking to your current wardrobe and try experimenting with different types of outfit pairings. You can look up different makeup tutorials to practise to bring out your amazing features. Switch up your every day routine with fun hair styles.

You could try to help silence the negative self talk by doing self care; skin care masks, at home pedicures, paint your nails, paint or read uplifting books. I am being more mindful to implement healthier habits like more regular physical activity like walking or swimming and aiming to eat more nutrient rich foods most of the time. When you are kind to your body and treat it like a friend with positive self talk and healthy food (like medicine) you can start to feel better about yourself as a result. That is what beauty means to me

#beautymeanstome

#backtoschoollook

I see beautiful

song by M-art

There was once a girl who was upset with herself

She has blossomed way before her peers

Everyone thinks she is way older on the outside

Feeling like she could suck the air out of the room

Due to her thighs being double the size

Oh, why did the mother of this earth give her this body?

There was once this girl who felt jealous of the other

Who was a very late bloomer

So skinny and tall

People confuse her as a guy

Oh, why did the mother of this earth give her this body

Oh, this is a gift from mother nature

In one of a trillion for you

To live this lovey life

So take a breath in and out

For you only have one life

To live

So why listen to the little demon in your head

And enjoy life

So do what you want

Cut and dye your hair

Take a warm shower

Put on a facemask

Listen to some upbeat music

While letting your creative

flow though your veins

If someone doesn’t like you due to the way

You look

Then throw them out the door

And slam it shut

Not looking back

Because why poison your ecosystem

With that negativity

Because, there is people in this world

Who will think you are drop dead

Gorgeous even if you are overly curvy or not

No matter how tall or small

No matter what nationality

You are beautiful just the way you are

Please remember that

You are beautiful just the way you are

#body positive #song

The problem with the

“The Perfect Body Campaign “

By Victoria Secret

The Perfect body Campaign mainly focused was on their

new “body bra”. The bra was designed to supposedly fit the

body type of everyone. On these advertisements used for the

campaign, they feature several tall skinny and mostly white

models wearing the new lingerie . The words “the perfect

body” overtop of it.

The ad was marketing to woman who have “the perfect

body“. The ad slogan is “the perfect body”, however the

advertisement only had tall skinny (so slim in fact, that you

can see their ribcage white women on it. With long

straight and loose curlers. When further exaltation of

these lady’s there is no bruises , freckles , and birth marks.

Just perfectly psoralen skin. All the models legs are

smooth with no sight of stretch marks. Every single one of

them have a thigh gap.

With that slogan and that picture would cause a lot of

woman to think the are not pretty due to them not having

the perceived perfect body type. This ad will cause girls all

around the world that see it, who are not tall and skinny,

anxiety and depression and lower self esteem.

Every woman wears underwear and bras. Not just tall ,

skinny, bigger chested woman. People who have birthm In this

day of age in 2022 we starve for body positively. If brands do

not up hold this than

they are missing out on a lot more costumers because people

will turn to brands that support EVERYONE.

In the end Victoria Secret got so much backlash they

changed the slogan from the “the perfect body type “ to “A

Body For Every body.” The company got praise for this change. I

was disappointed to see even though the slogan changed, their

ad still only has thin and mainly WHITE skinned woman. Which

was the main problem because I was taught actions are louder

than words.

#controversialcampaign

. Doing this cut with makeup was surprisingly easy. All you need is eyeliner in brown or black , lipstick , lipgloss,and blush.

some inspiration for an injure makeup look of my own

My final drag look

Planning my drag look

planning my drag queen makeup look

Planning Alien look

#alien girl

My finally results of my Alien . Researching some plants from earth

#alien girl

Looking up different alien makeup. so far I'm really inspired to have some thing in the middle of the forehead like the third eye, a moon or a gem .

I love my zombie look. I really like how the purple dress goes so well with the makeup. While putting together this look I found out colour of you want to mix a little bit of eyeshadow powder of your choice and add some of you foundation.