The Beauty Myth

One important fact of life that I’m often concerned about is that we are all taught, in one way or another, that we are ugly or deficient. We’re lead to believe that we are inadequate because we don’t have clear skin, we don’t have completely hairless bodies, we don’t have long eyelashes, we don’t have symmetrical faces and we can’t fit into a size 8 skirt.


Magazines and T.V commercials bombard us with images of ‘beautiful’ women – images created to make us think that if we don’t measure up to those (often impossible and unhealthy) standards, then we should change ourselves to fulfil those standards.

This is one of major reasons cosmetic companies make billions of dollars a year – they help create and maintain the insecurities of customers by implying that you will be ‘improved’ or ‘more attractive’ by buying their products or using their services.

It is a false promise – wearing fake eyelashes doesn’t make you more beautiful, it only shows that you aren’t happy about that particular feature. If everybody thought that they were decent-looking just the way they were, I guarantee those companies would go out of business.


I’m not saying it’s wrong to wear make-up, remove the hair from your body or apply fake tan.

I’m saying that you should feel comfortable in your own skin, with the assurance that you look fine the way you are. I’m saying that if you do enjoy decorating your body, don’t do it out of insecurity that you’re ugly. It isn’t true, and it never has been true. Do it with the confidence that you’re already beautiful, and the make-up is only providing the icing on the cake. Do it for fun, or do it just to do something different.







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