the self confidence guide 2023.

"beauty standards"

Beauty Standard:
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The feminine beauty ideal is "the socially constructed notion that physical attractiveness is one of women's most important assets, and something all women should strive to achieve and maintain".

I saw an Instagram post with an image of Angelina Jolie's jawline, it showed how it would look if she had a "weak chin" or "a small bump and droopy nose". The image defined the type of angles in jawline women should pursue and have, if you had this certain angle of jawline then it was considered "perfect" if not then, you are ugly. I kept scrolling down and one comment caught my eyes which is the one above and I'm asking myself. Why are women pressured to fit in beauty standards or the so called "perfection"?

The society we live in bombards young girls and women with images of what they should aspire to look like: flawless skin, shiny hair, an emaciated stick thin figure, perfect makeup, and impossibly expensive clothing. Is like they only promote a narrow view of beauty. This starts from a very young age, little girls grow up with a sense of self-loathing and internalize the belief that they need other people’s validation to feel whole. Women are applauded for being beautiful. It’s very rare that you will see a woman get cultural praise for the size of her brain.

Young girls are taught to be seen and not heard and that beauty is the ultimate achievement that they can strive for.

So we poison ourselves with toxic chemicals, make up our faces, starve our bodies, dumb down our minds, poke and prod ourselves with needles…for what? So you can think we’re “beautiful.”

"External beauty is something that has been dictated to us by society. It is not something that is truly real. The standards by which we judge somebody as “beautiful” is all made up."