Our Perception of Beauty is Distorted

Beauty is a concept that is mistaken. It has been mistaken on magazine covers, billboards, bus shelters and just about anywhere else we find the fashion industry’s perception of “models”. Young girls have this theory that these plastic faces are what some women wake up looking like every morning. These girls have no idea that these young women are not the same people they see in the media. It is almost as if a picture of a model is not that model as a person, but merely an image that was in a way “inspired” by that model and modified. Dove released this short clip as part of their Campaign for Real Beauty to show young women how "distorted" society's perception of beauty really is. By being able to visually show how an average looking woman can be transformed into a younger, more attractive looking model, girls everywhere might alter their views on models in magazines and on television. Videos like this one are what young girls should focus their perceptions of beauty on. With the help of make-up, camera tricks, airbrushing, and other photo-retouching techniques, spectators can be fooled into thinking that the almost robotic perfection of these models is actually real. Girls need to see that it is not worth striving for to look like the women on the covers of the magazines because no one actually looks it in reality.