Dove-Self Esteem

There is a commercial on youtube called Dove-Self Esteem. It starts off with an ordinary girl sitting in a chair. This girl has some acne on her face, her hair is flat; she wouldn’t be the type of girl that one would think to be modeling for any major companies. All of the sudden, people start coming in left and right to make her up. There’s someone fixing her eyebrows, her lips, the eyes, someone is covering up imperfections on her face, and several people working on her hair. The camera then zooms into her face and puts it on a computer screen where her cheek bones are raised, some length is added to her neck, her eyebrows are moved up; basically, they made her look like she was perfect. Then her picture is plastered onto a big billboard, advertising a foundation. The video ends with a quote that says “no wonder our perception of beauty is distorted.”
I have seen this commercial several times and it each time I do, I realize how sad it is that society’s view of beautiful is based on what we see everyday on tv, in magazines, on billboards, advertisements on the bus. Everywhere we turn there is something like that to see. That last quote in the video, talking about how our perception of beauty is distorted, is so true. By seeing things like this in our everyday life, it sets a standard for how people think they should look. In reality it is impossible for anyone to look like these models. No wonder so many people in America have eating disorders and things like that. Everyone thinks they have to look like a model, but what they do not realize is that, in real life not even the model looks like she or he does in their pictures. Technology has changed the way society views beautiful. It is sad, because it sets expectations for people that are simply impossible to reach. Hopefully someday, our view of beauty will change and people will start to see beauty in everyone, because everyone is beautiful in their own way.