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When did it become okay to think women on beauty magazines are the only ones that represent beauty or what it seems? When did it become okay for little girls to think that beauty is something, which can only be seen through having skinny little bodies? I flip the pages of countless magazines and see pictures of women who are suppose to show us what we are missing, so they try to tell us the many ways to follow what they are wearing, the products they are using, “How to dress like her.” “How to look like her.” Lots more of these seem to proceed right before my eyes and I start to think to myself, what the fuck would young girls think when they see what they see on billboards, TVs and magazines? When it comes to beauty, what will they think when they see that this is what’s selling? Beauty magazines pints point what they want girls to think they don’t have, creating an idea in their heads that what they currently have is still not good enough. They try to come up with these little ways to make us feel the need to buy more in order to look more exotic, sexy or smart, so we can also manipulate other people in thinking that we have a certain persona when all of that ain't nothing but a mere front. Girls then get consumed easily in all these tricks the media play on us and at the same time we are subconsciously expecting to get something from all of the nonsense they've created, expecting that maybe somewhere along the road we might gain some self confidence or self respect when what we end up with in the end is self-conscious and self neglect instead. Insecurities then rises and the lack of satisfaction emerges, until we constantly feel the need to dress up more, act a certain way, look a certain way in order to be accepted more, in order to get attention more, in order to get guys to turn their heads more and call us the next day to ask us on another date more. Wearing layers of foundations and make-ups to what we think will enhance our features more, so then we could look more beautiful so we start to deceive our own current physical form and feel that we are ugly but the media’s not helping. Young girls need to know that this shit is what the media lives off of, this is what they feed on, breathe on, our insecurities and the manipulation to make us feel like we need more beauty products to achieve something they made us think we don’t already have and can’t have unless we purchase, so we must have it, must grab it, now quick, before a new trend comes in, yes, I need it, it’ll make me look more beautiful than the girl sitting next to me – when all of this is bullshit. More bullshit builds up on another pile of bullshit until it all bursts into diseases, and comes eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia nervosa, depression and the acts of suicide that just spreads quicker and quicker at a blink of an eye. What the fuck? I live in a generation where the girls we call beautiful are those being put on the front of magazines, ad campaigns with no fire in their eyes but a face that screams of a clown, they are frowning inside but the tons of make up on their faces help to cover how sad they really are? Girls that have been photoshoped more than enough times until not one spot on their faces seem to be present on the pages of the paper, this is what we call beauty. The reason why nowadays the truth is so hard to accept is because we have always been bombarded with lies all around the media and the media mostly is all that we see. So it is no wonder why nowadays girls struggle to be able to love, embrace and appreciate their own body and looks. Whatever happened to listening to what we have to say about the real things in life that can truly show off our knowledge about the world we’re in? Whatever happened to accepting ourselves without judging the size of our tums, thighs, hips, legs, bums, or breast? Us girls need to open up our eyes and hearts more to see the true beauty in its very finest beyond what our own visual perception can see. We need to look pass the many labels and the imaginary divisions between what is beautiful and ugly. We need to realize how unhealthy it is to have a shallow frame of mind as it limits our ability to appreciate things that are beyond what we call our 'bodies'. Girls need to think about what is real and what is a mere false perception of reality that the media creates in order to simply gain more money.