Dove ~ Evolution
This week at the Cannes Film Festival, an unusual short on beauty captured the top award.
The commercial’s message is a strong deviation from the status quo, which espouses the use of beauty products to enhance one’s otherwise “lacking” beauty, and how companies that sell us beauty products that are supposed to make one look “prettier” are indeed skewing our perspective of beauty. That women cannot be beautiful unless we are plastered in a plethora of chemicals that change our faces to fit the image of “beauty”.
No wonder we need so many self-esteem workshops. The media is working against women by trying to lead us to believe that if we don’t look a certain way, we cannot be pretty or that beauty is merely skin deep and that is all that matters. Why else do we have young girls looking like Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilara? It is the image that the media parades out as normal.
I wonder… what would happen if for one day no woman in the world wore make-up or used a beauty product? It wouldn’t happen because too many are lead to believe that they are naked without it and that they are exposed. It’s a sad world we live in when it takes artificial products to make a person feel beautiful.
Stumble It!
