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Jan 13, 2010, 11:57 AM
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Member Since: Feb 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 12,269
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The trick is don't be afraid of that 'awkward feeling'. Take some slow deep breaths and acknowledge it's there, but don't give into it. Eventually you won't react to that feeling and it will go away. I blame alot of self esteem problems on the beauty industry, TV, Hollywood etc. From the time we're little girls, we're bombarded with that perfect image of beauty. What most people don't realize, is it's all false -most people dont role out of bed looking like that. In fact the models themselves don't look like that!!!
You should check out http://www.dove.ca/en/#/cfrb/ to learn more about it.
After hours of hair and makeup they take pictures and then they alter the image further by changing the width of the eyes, removing shadows/pimples, lengthening the neck - there's endless things they do. These images are put in maganizes and young women try to emmulate them - this is impossible to do. They end up feeling they're not good enough. We need to change the way we raise our girls and empower them to accentuate their own strengths instead of placing value only on the way they look.
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