I wanted to try and portray the “glass slipper effect”, but I also took inspiration from “The Two Cultures of Childhood”. I wanted to also portray how beauty is like become a need for women in society. The image on the left depicts the need for women to focus more on their beauty. There is also a lot off representation of what people see as what is normal to associate with girls. As you can see in this image there is mostly pink items in this picture from the box the shoe is sitting on to the blush and the pink makeup brush. As we all know pick is a color we associate more with girls. But you may ask, why is the shoe black and white? The black and white shows that women of equal color struggle with the pressures of beauty. Pink feather boa signifies what little girls would play dress up. According to Rudman and Glick, “…imitators represent feminine ideals and encourage such activities as pretend shopping, grooming, and accessorizing.”
The photo on the right basically portrays me as a woman struggling to put on her shoe. In the tale “Cinderella” she basically waits for her prince charming to find her by putting it on her foot, while others who have tried it on were trying to shove it into their foot. As little girls we all played dress up and make believe we were princesses waiting for her prince to come. The struggle of putting on the heel shows how women have become obsessed with beauty and wanting to look more presentable and confident. When a women wears heels, some people might say that she must have a lot of confidence to wear those shoes. Women who wear these types of shoes only end up with blisters and painful feet. So as the phrase goes “beauty is pain”, women must be willing to fit into society by sacrificing comfort for beauty.
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We as women have learned from young ages that makeup and heels make us true women. I know when I was a young girl as soon as Mommy left the room I ran to her closet to put on the tallest heels I could find and I remember putting them on and feeling special. To this day even I feel a sense of confidence wearing heels as well as the center of attention; when I wear a pair of heels I know all eyes or on me whether it be negative or positive attention. Wearing makeup is something girls gravitate toward as they watch princess movies or model after their mom and sister. There is not one princess movie I can think of where the princess is bare faced and natural, a Princess' beauty is always defined by makeup, the beautiful ball gown and heels. In this picture a huge symbol that stick out to me is the heels that seem to be on a pedestal with the makeup. The pedestal is society making beauty an extremely important theme among women, showing that being beautiful will make you authentically feminine. A woman not wearing makeup is seen as messy or careless about their appearance; a problem that ever appears for men. I also believe that the foot struggling to fit in the shoe is displaying not all women can fit in one category of beautiful and it is impossible to fit one standard. It is important to demonstrate to our daughters that wearing makeup and heels is a good thing if that is what they want to do but wearing their athletic wear and not wearing a face of makeup is just as great!
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