Advertisement Project
Advertising
industry spends billions of dollars a year with many images of “Beauty “in a
system that recreates itself and unobtainable. Behind the make-up, fame, status
and smile beauty ideals has become living dolls this has become a catalyst to
channel inner Barbie’s. This has affected
thoughts, emotions and behavior in individuals across the world by impacting
self-esteem and self-confidence of women today. Maybelline slogan “Maybe she’s
born with it” but the question remain was it Photoshopped? tidal waves of criticism
has become prevalent in society women are dis-empowering themselves strive to
fit the description of beauty that society has set for us.
A famous show girl, actress, icon, blue print
of models was Norma Jeane Baker aka Marilyn
Monroe. I chose this photo of her because she was the Jezebel (sex symbols,
manipulative) of her time; she was primed by media, but was bleeding inside which
led to her demise. All people saw was her breasts, her lips and her legs and
not the scars inside of her. In the photo she’s putting on makeup, looking very
confident, self-assured and composed; this is what society sees as beautiful.
It didn’t matter that she was suffering with self-confidence and covering her
inner pain. Beauty ideals have to do a lot with the “fit in factor “with many
myths altering the facts with a great deal of social influences.
Yet”
beauty has always been personal “our
perceptions are different consequently society has social influence which are
caused by real and imagined pressures. We buy the right clothes and cosmetic
products. Many people work out obsessively, and others even develop eating
disorders. Becoming obsessive in molding themselves into the outlines of
fragment of beauty attraction. Society
has created a self-formula that has derails individual giving young girls an
open concept of self. In the photo she looks as if she is confident but inside
she was tormented, driven witless, but seen as fantastic, beautiful, and healthy,
therefore you’re inside matter the most.
Original Photo of Marilyn Monroe
"If you're going to be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”― Marilyn Monroe
Work Citied
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey.
Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
No comments:
Post a Comment