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This article is about young girls wanting to reach the unattainable beauty they see in magazines. More young teens spend more money on physical beauty and yet still feel worse about their looks. Also, more and more beauty is being faked by either digital enhancements or plastic surgery. Photo retouching has become so popular that lawmakers in France and the U.K. have proposed to pass a legislation that will require health warnings on images that have been digitally altered. Cosmetic-surgery procedures have nearly doubled over the past decade. Nora Ephron said we are looking more and more like the airbrushed version of ourselves.
I like this article and the facts it brings to the table. I also felt that this is a story that needs to be covered more, so that young girls know they are beautiful just the way they are.
I definitely agree that there should be a warning label on the digitally enhanced photos to warn young girls that this has been faked; so young girls are not lining up to get cosmetic surgeries or starving themselves.
This story to me is an eye opener. You always here about anorexia or bulimic on the rise, but never show or point the finger where the blame falls. I agree about warning labels. These digitally enhanced or cosmetic surgery pictures make young girls try to look just like them. When a young girl does this they do not usually know the risk. We always here on the news about how cigarettes can cause so much damage and even death, but these images do the same to our young teenagers.
Good point! I agree totally with you. This reminds me of a song I hear on KLOVE all the time, and the chorus says: "There could never be a more beautiful you."
ReplyDeleteWe get so caught up in the outside these days. The problem with that is that even girls that are beautiful don't think that they are. Hollywood and advertising distort the truths, and act as if they have the ultimate opinion on perfection.
There definitely needs to be a label that states which pics are manipulated. It is sheer madness trying to imitate something that is not real in the first place. Fake breasts, fake smiles, fake noses, fake everything. No one can measure up to this. It takes away the message that you are beautiful and deserving or admiration just the way you are. Hollywood and advertising such be condemned for the message that they send!
I agree! No one wants to be the one to point the finger of blame. If our society wasn't so wrapped up in money and beauty maybe things would be different. No one should have to feel less than beautiful in their own skin. This unattainable picture of what is beautiful is damaging to young girl's self esteem and undermines "real" beautiful women.
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