Beauty

You turn on the tv and a commercial comes on. It shows naked women that are wearing frilly bras, feathery wings, and rather diaphanous lacy underwear. You need that cute bra. You will look like the long-torsoed flawless skinny models on the commercial if you have that.

Reality check.

It really upsets me that so many girls have a horrible body image. Commercials tell teenage girls that we need that bra or those panties because you will look more like the flawless, perfect, girl you see on the tv. You feel like you are not beautiful watching these things. The models on the commercial are beautiful to you.

So what is beauty anyways?

Is beauty how you look naked wearing lacy frilly things? Is beauty flawless skin and plump lips? Is beauty having thighs that don't touch? Is beauty the idea of weighing under 100 lbs? What is beauty!?!

Beauty is your personality. It is your smile, the way you can comfort your best friend when they go through a breakup. Beauty is sleeping in on a saturday lounging on the couch all day and being okay with not dressing up or slathering on a lot of makeup. You have two hands that work, two legs and feet that can walk, a whole complex body that is a beautiful work of art all in its self. WHO YOU ARE IS BEAUTIFUL!

But this part of beauty doesnt get into anybody's head. All they see is the porn that is pasted inside stores in malls, in magazines, in commercials, and on websites. This all gets engraved into a girls head at a young age and it sticks. That young girl says to herself "that woman is beautiful. I need to look like her and be beautiful too."

Now you might be thinking. I don't know that i would call it porn, thats a little exaggerated. Oh really? I'll show you a few pictures here...

Okay, you say. Sure thats a little provocative , but i mean they're selling underwear...

Okay theres a point- but here are some clothes and perfumes and makeup porn too.

If you want to sell a sweater or underwear do it on a mannequin. Now i know, models have to have a job too, and thats just how it works. But you can do things respectively and not look like you're stripping for the camera.

so theres that..

But you know what really really PISSES ME OFF?!?

These women were in the plus size area of the target lingerie section online.

plus size

plus size

Can anybody tell me why this is plus size? This is normal to me.

It all just makes me upset really. Our image of what is beautiful has completely been fucked up by media.

And it really, truly upsets me.

Do you remember when the most beautiful woman in the world was your mother when you were little? you wanted to grow up to be just like her? now who do you want to look like? How do these pictures make you feel?

you dont need to change a single thing about yourself. Those women are so fake.

i don't know where i was going with all of this...

But all i have to add is this.

You are really, truly a beautiful person. Boy or girl. You are BEAUTIFUL as you are, and never let anybody including yourself tell you otherwise.

visit this site every day. It will remind you.

www.operationbeautiful.com

love yourself. please.