The media and Beauty

  The Dove commercials on youtube that we watched conveyed very strong messages about the media and how it portrays "beauty."  The first one I viewed, showed a little girl at the very beginning and then the various things that people do to their body, face, and hair to be "beautiful."  It shows pretty graphic things for a commercial and really makes you realize how the media does give young girls a distorted image of what beauty really is.  Young girls have minds like a sponge, and some of them will strive to be perfect and go to any extremes to get there.  Plastic surgery was shown in the commercial, which usually isn't a healthy way to achieve beauty.  Beauty is something you should realize you have without all the alterations the media is encouraging.

  The media is targetting women and pressuring them to be something that they're simply not.  In the second commercial, it shows an average woman, then applies a large amount of make-up to her, then does her hair, and after everything is done her pictures are altered on the computer.  This just shows that nobody really has the "beauty" that the media portrays. This is why the quote at the end that says "talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does" fits perfect..because young girls will think that people really do look how they're portrayed through the media.

Beauty doesn't require make up!

  Overall, I thought the commercials were an eye opener.  Nobody is perfect, but the beauty is in the imperfections.