Operation Beautiful is the pride and joy of Plano Senior High School’s Student Council. Hours and hours of thinking brought them to the conclusion that to celebrate inner beauty one must remove all extremities that girls apply on their face every morning, more commonly known as makeup. On the day of Operation Beautiful, all girls wishing to participate in the festivities shall arrive to school with no artificial products or even natural products on their faces. I, for one, completely agree with the concept, after all, one must often take a step back in order to take two steps forward. We should not have to rely on makeup to make us appear more beautiful than is natural. I get the idea from the most beautiful planet in our solar system. Earth itself! Our Earth is covered with beautiful untouched forests, rolling hills and snowcapped mountains. And people should be expected to emulate the same purity and naturalness.
Although I agree with the creators of OB I have to say that I am disappointed with their short-term mindedness. Ever since I could comprehend words in my brain my dad has told me to look at the bigger picture. So why is OB just one day? I strongly believe that we should remove unnatural beauty from the world by resorting to a natural and not as beauteous world every single day of the year instead of a measly twenty four hours. But one gender is not enough. Why does OB pertain to girls only? Like BO, OB should be properly distributed among the different genders. I propose that the gentleman be involved somehow in OB because then the festival would create an insecure feeling among both men and women of Plano Senior High School. But makeup is not enough. Why does OB pertain to just makeup? Is makeup the only artificial obj...
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... a day where the students of Plano Senior High School are united. Finally, I heard from many students that Operation Beautiful should be cancelled because the festival forces all of us to be self-conscious about our looks even though the entire point of OB is to be comfortable in one’s natural skin. I, for one, completely disagree with the previous statement because the reason we are so uncomfortable in our natural state is because we have been given clothes and makeup to cover our naturalness up. We should be striving to take all synthetic mediums out of our lives and live as our ancestors did thousands of years ago.
To the creators of Operation Beautiful I say, OB is not making enough of a difference in our school. The question still remains. Why should people be able to use what we have to make ourselves appear attractive instead of letting nature run its course?
Following Joan Jacobs Brumberg throughout her conveying research of adolescents turning their bodies into projects the reader is able to see where all of the external beauty fascination came from following up to the 21st century. Brumberg effectively proves her point, and any girl of today’s age knows the struggle of which she continuously portrays throughout her book. Beauty has become such a preoccupation that it has gone from soap and washcloths, to makeup, to cosmetic reconstruction of body parts.
In today society, beauty in a woman seems to be the measured of her size, or the structure of her nose and lips. Plastic surgery has become a popular procedure for people, mostly for women, to fit in social class, race, or beauty. Most women are insecure about their body or face, wondering if they are perfect enough for the society to call the beautiful; this is when cosmetic surgery comes in. To fix what “needed” to be fixed. To begin with, there is no point in cutting your face or your body to add or remove something most people call ugly. “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” explored the desire of human to become beyond perfection by the undergoing plastic surgery. The author, Camille Pagalia, took a look how now days how Americans are so obsessed
In “The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialism and Global Feminism in an Age of Terror,” Mimi Thi Nguyen argues that beauty as a measure of moral character functions to regulate an individual. Nguyen explains that beauty promises to be redemptive and bring an individual from the outside in relation with the world(362). For example, the United States through nongoverenmental orgainizations (NGO’s), have promoted beauty to Afghanistan women because it is a way if liberating them from an uncivilized barbaric society that oppresses them to hide their beauty through the veil. According to Kant, the veil is considered ugly because it hides the body, which is associated with the erotic. Kant claims that beauty made visible is true and good, while the invisible is ugly and erotic (266). Nguyen claims using Kant that beauty is connected to morality because it makes visible what the “ugly” is trying to hide by providing a pathway in which beauty can improve ones life. Nguyen asserts that individuals use beauty as a serious of techniques to produce knowledge and emotions that function to portray the individual with dignity in comparison to the “ugly”. Thus, the use of beauty as an educational tool that measures their character is an important factor in teaching women to associate themselves with the rest of the world.
She grabs the foundation and smothers her face with it; she creates a mask. She sprays the hairspray till the fumes clog the air. She squeezes into her bejeweled dress and puts on her heels. She transforms into someone who is unrecognizable, and fake. This is a little girl. The process of preparing for a beauty pageant is very demanding and stressful while little girls spend hours training and getting ready for their appearance on stage. Weeks are spent choreographing their dance routines and thousands of dollars are spent on, “glitzy” dresses, fake teeth, and spray tans. As long as beauty pageants for girls under the age of 16 continue, there will be an increase in mental and physical issues, an increase in the objectification of women, and there will be negative impacts for little girls.
This campaign was hold in September 2006. It aims to change the teenage girl’s and women’s definition of beauty. This campaign for real beauty use social learning theory to teach the females to have self-esteem and more confidence so that can lead to a healthy lifestyle. Dove has taken many steps to achieve their mission in changing the definition of beauty. Dove helps girls to learn more and more positive behavior through this campaign. For example, a girl who studied in primary school has curly hair. But all of her classmates laugh at her because of her hair as it is not same as others’ hair. Her classmates labeled her as
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Attention Step: “I prefer artificial beauty to natural ugliness,” is a phrase that currently seems to be gaining popularity with many girls and women around the world. However, not many of them can understand the dangerous perils behind the artificial beauty.
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Young girls take makeup as a way to fit in, and sometimes jealousy plays apart like "They were said to be envious of her good looks"(Bullied to Death for Being Pretty). How girls are looked upon can sometimes give off a sense of shame or envy. The world brings upon a way of life, a way of living to societies needs in a way where a thirteen year old is putting makeup on her face. Influences from the media involving makeup as well as photo shopping models in magazines causes a
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First, women spend huge amounts of money to improve their looks. So here we are unable to escape the reality that we can never be flawless or blemish free; moreover, as long as women have the belief that all greatness de...
There are over seven billion people on earth and every single one looks different. No matter how much people say that being different is unique, they are wrong. Society has set a beauty standard, with the help of the media and celebrities, that makes people question their looks. This standard is just a definition of what society considers being “beautiful.” This idea is one that mostly everyone knows about and can relate to. No one on this planet is exactly the same, but people still feel the need to meet this standard. Everyone has two sides to them; there is the one that says “you are perfect just the way you are”, while the other side puts you down and you tell yourself “I have to change, I have to fit in.” There is always going to be that side that cares and the one that doesn’t.