My photo takes a look at some of the things that girls buy in order to accomplish being beautiful. Today’s girls obsess constantly over the way they look. Most of that is a direct reflection of how the media portrays what beautiful looks like. From magazines to nail polish, girls have everything possible to make them “pretty”.
To capture the viewer’s eyes, I placed three Cosmopolitan magazines in the middle. They are the line which draws eyes to them first. These magazines are like bibles to females all over America. They are placed in the middle of the picture because all of this “beauty” revolves around the media and what it tries to depict to young females. Everything around the picture can be found somewhere in each of these magazines. To demonstrate this, the size of the magazines is larger than the other items of the picture. Their proportion of the picture is much larger than the other smaller items. Since all the items are directly affected to each other, the picture was taken in a circular shape to show the flow of the items. The items are all placed in a collage type of way and not giving much space in between the items to help represent their relationship to each other. The picture is taken directly above to give a direct look at the items. The colors of the picture are bright because beauty products tend to be colorful and bright to draw the consumer toward them.
In conclusion, I took a picture of “beauty items” surrounding three Cosmopolitan magazines. Girls start young and start playing with make up to be just like the girl they see on television. It can become an obsession to just keep trying to be beautiful and some girls will eventually get lost in that. The picture symbolizes how these magazines, along with other media, show to young females that you need to go out and buy everything in order to fit their ideal of beautiful.
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I like how this photo captures the idea that girls are taught beauty is something they can buy. The media plays a huge role in this as demonstrated by the magazines in the photo. Day after day they commercialized the idea that you need things like mascara and eye-shadow because you are not pretty enough without it or because your eye lashes aren't dark enough without their product. Even parents enforced this idea starting in childhood by giving their young girls make-up and telling them they look pretty no matter how much they manage to cake on. This conditions young girls to believe that they are only beautiful with make-up on and that it doesn’t matter who they are on the inside as long as they have a pretty face. Beauty has become a superficial idea when it should be deeper than a smear of make-up.
I like this picture a lot. It shows the fact that girls think they have to wear makeup and look a certain way to be beautiful. Girls as young as 11 years old, such as my little cousin begin to wear makeup, because it is the "in" thing. This pretty much allows young girls to believe that they are only beautiful with make-up on and that it doesn’t matter who they are on the inside as long as they have a pretty features, then nothing else would matter. I must admit, in my younger years, I would have tried to explain to my mom, it was cool, and "everyone was doing it". But now, it's like, Why? Guys only see what was on the outside. You get the statement, "Oh, She's Hot!", or "I'd Do Her!". And girls don't realize, that it's offensive, more than a compliment. I guess "Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder", has a whole new meaning. It's sad, how you see so many commercials on how it's "supposed to be", and how women are "supposed to look".
The number of products in this picture is pretty overwhelming, but they are all used daily by women. This represents the pressure on women to use these products in order to be seen as “beautiful”. Beauty can be defined as “the qualities that give pleasure to the senses”, but who defines what these qualities are? We let these magazines and other sources of media influence our vision of beauty to the point of obsession. Countless hours are spent daily on a woman’s image with all of these products. Hair, make-up, tanning, shaving, jewelry, nail polish; it is all so time consuming and what woman actually enjoys it? If the media didn’t portray the need for these products we would have so much more time just enjoying life. These products and images continuously push women to be “perfect” and when you step back and look it is so unrealistic. I believe this media image of beauty really has a lot of damage to women, inside and out.
It's kind of strange how much we go through to feel better about ourselves and I think this picture is a great example of it. Women feel the need to use so many products to make themselves feel "prettier" and more "feminine" but men seem to barely face this problem at all. If a woman shows up to work one day without makeup or her hair done, people will look at her and automatically assume there must be something wrong with her or she's sick that day. If a man were to do this, it would be seen as completely normal and others wouldn't think twice about it. Also, in the commercials and ads trying to sell these products are to blame for women feeling insecure with their looks. If it weren't for ads like the one's in these magazine's featured in this picture, women wouldn't feel the need to reach a nearly impossible idea of beauty.
I believe that this photo displays a strong message about certain perceptions of beauty. The first thing that I noticed concerning this image was how all of the beauty products take up almost the entire frame. This could possibly represent how overwhelming the need to be beautiful is. Next, I noticed the three magazines that are laid out and felt that the person who owned these beauty products might be using them to try to emulate the women adorning the covers. Lastly, and possibly most importantly, what I noticed is that all three of these magazines have commentary in very large font about sexual behavior in some way. These magazines are marketed toward women and are not only glorifying sex but are also associating it with who a woman is as a person with articles titled "What Makes a Woman interesting" right beneath "99 SEX MOVES." The sexuality is blatant with half-nude women on every cover, and this photo displays that the marketers for the magazines are successful, as the owner of these products has spent both money and time on so many beauty supplies to try and make themselves beautiful.
I like how this displays many different kinds of beauty supplies that can pull women into the the less important materialistic things. a women could walk into any store and find any one of these materials. This means women everyday are faced with what they need to be "beautiful".
This picture shows the things the society encourage women to use to make them look beautiful(beautiful meaning flawless skin, blonde, big breast and so on).
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