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from: Sarah
Most women feel pressure from society and their peers to look perfect and flawless. These pressures cause women to lose who they really are and what matters to them besides their looks. In my photo entitled, Beauty? I look at how magazines, celebrities, and peer pressure influence the lives of many young women.
In my photo, you aren't physically able to see the girl, only the reflection of her body in the mirror. This symbolizes the fact that today, many young girls and women aren't being looked at for their smarts, their brains, or their spirit, they are being gawked at because of their bodies and what they are wearing, not who they really are. The magazines on the mirrors are covering up her face because she is not an individual anymore; she is trying to make herself look like a celebrity or a model. This girl isn't satisfied with her looks; she wants to alter them in order to become someone else. The girl in my picture is
using make up and hair products to change herself and make her feel better. The products stand for what most women believe makes them "normal" and "beautiful". These women feel that by altering only altering their looks, will them become more attractive and worthy in society.
4 comments:
I think this photo does a great job in showing the influence on the media for teenagers. I love how the magazine covers literally cover the teenagers face with pictures of society's accepted beautiful women. The photo makes it seem as though even with the make-up that teenagers use they are still unattractive, and have no identity unless they are one of these "cover girls". I love how the photographer has the girls posture as well. The teen seems extremely unconfident, which is how most of society's teens really are, especially without their mask of make-up on. I can’t blame the media for putting pictures of women who are visually attractive to the eye in magazines, ads, commercials and so on. I do feel like the media makes society think these visually attractive women are “ideal”; most of us know these women are they exact opposite, and not “ideal”.
I love this picture! I think it does a great job of showing gender socialization. This picture especially focuses on the female view of one's body. The make up in the picture suggests that girls have to paint their faces in order to be beautiful. I especially like how the picture was taken in front of the mirror with women from magazines covering the face of the girl in the picture. This shows that the girl is looking in the mirror, but does not want to see herself. Instead, she wants to look like the models in the magazine. This picture shows the low self esteem in women, especially young women. Society has made beauty the main focus in females. Women are almost always self conscious of their weight, their breast size, and their facial beauty. This is very disheartening because as we all know, beauty eventually disappears and then what are we worth?
To me this picture shows more than just how this young girl wants to be like the models. She is critiquing herself in the mirror, and you cannot even see her face. Like her identity has been taken away and she is trying just so hard to be like the girls on the magazines. The array of make-up and styling accessories scattered around makes the truth come out. Anything will be done, no matter how much earlier you have to wake up or how much money you have to spend, just so you can turn ‘fake’ to look pretty. Shouldn’t the world praise you for how you truly look? For your natural beauty?
This photo has a couple messages that I can pick up. The first is that women are losing their identity by allowing others to dictate how they should look. This is shown by the magazines that not only are hung up on the mirror so this person can see them everyday but also because they cover the young girl’s view of her own face.
The second message is the price of beauty as dictated by society. There is make-up on the sink top and there are a couple baskets with cleansers in them. You can see more magazines are in the room from the reflection in the mirror.
The models that cover the mirror are thin blemish free and portray a state of confidence that can be seen in their facial expressions and body posturing. The girl in this photo doesn’t show the same confidence. The message that she seems to be portraying is “This is as good as it’s going to get” This is seen by her shoulders being hunched slightly forward with her hands on her hips. She is standing with a slight lean to the right and her head appears to be slightly to the right also.
This young girl seems to have lost herself to societies and the media’s desires. Unless she separates herself from what society and media deems to be beautiful she will be unhappy with herself and her life.
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