Health Conscious or Beauty Conscious
Uploaded by sweet-caramel on May 11, 2007
In America, we have two types of people: one who are conscious about their health, and the other who are conscious about their beauty. We live in a society where one is judged on their appearance, and how they present themselves. Whereas, some are more concerned with their health, and beauty holds little or no value to them. I believe our society is more beauty conscious than heath conscious.
Our society is after the perfect body image, where they would do anything to achieve that. There are numerous amounts of diet plans, and pills out there, which one can consume to get an enhanced body. People spend more than their whole years worth of income and savings to improve their image. Sometimes it seems as if, their life purpose is to look and feel better. So many television shows are created for those people who don’t dress to the norms of society. They are brought in front of millions of people, humiliated and then dressed till desirable, and told to go home and maintain that look.
Beauty and fashion industry is a multi billion-dollar business contributed towards the ideal beauty and fashions. Models are a certain weight and they walk on the ramp to show the whole world that this is perfection, and this is how everyone should look like. Latest and most expensive cloths, jewelry, and makeup are put on their body convey their message.
If one cant achieves their perfect body goals, one would go to the extreme of cosmetic or plastic surgery. Due to looking a certain way, there is a huge population of people who want to fit in so badly, that they take drastic measures into making themselves look beautiful. This is where serious health disorders like Anorexia, Bulimia, and Compulsive Overeating Disorder enters. It destroys people’s lives and to some, it leads them to their deaths.
The drive to perfection leads to deeper wounds of insecurity and lack of self-confidence, which takes an extensive time to heal. Younger and younger girls are feeling the lack of confidence and don’t think they are good enough. Mother are telling their daughters they should look and dress a certain way or else they would not achieve what they want to. You cannot go a mile on the road without looking at a gorgeous face, make up advertisements, or diet plan commercial. Everywhere you glance, there is the message...