Beauty & Photoshop

At a very young age both females and males begin worrying about how they look compared to other people. By the time these children are in high school they have seen thousands and thousands of television advertisements, persuading each one of them how they should look. Why does our society hold this unrealistic standard on beauty? Everyone's body is different from one another, in fact I am a fraternal twin and we have very different body structures. God created everyone different and uniquely, therefore no one is going to look just like someone else no matter how hard they try to. No one should ever feel like their body isn’t good enough or needs to be changed drastically in order to look “perfect” like the women portrayed in television ads. In most cases these women do not even look the way they are made look like in these advertisements. All of these women are Photoshopped to look like this distorted “perfect image” of what society thinks women are supposed to look like.

When in reality no one is perfect. Instead of these advertisement companies focusing on selling the product with a pretty face and perfect body. They should portray realistic images of women by not photoshopping out their so called “flaws”.

What these advertisement companies don’t think about is how negatively they affect young girls and boy into being insecure about their bodies at a very young age.These young girls may not know that these women don't really look like the way they are perceived in advertisements. Everyone is beautiful in their own way, our society needs to do a better job in embracing reality rather than creating and selling photoshopped images of a distorted image of “Beauty”.