A Change of Face

"No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted" The dove advertisement here is giving a deep intuition of editors transforming a woman whom is completely natural and is beautiful to the media's definition of a perfect woman, which is ideally unrealistic, not genuine and is just a clear imitation. This demonstrates that the expectations of society and at its finest point of transforming someone so completely natural into society's ideal unrealistic model.

After evidence of this video proving how the transformation was created, I personally am distorted to know how occasionally this actually happens in today's society, know that we are at the point that some of our favourite role models are edited and photoshopped to create an image that we can never physically be without photoshop. It isn't just non - famous models being completely transformed into something they are not, it is also many celebrities that have been edited in magazines without their permission, once the magazine is displayed they see the alteration that has been made to there bodies, I don't think it is either fair on us or the celebrity.

How can we look up to our role models and strive to be them if the media has created a whole new person and we don't actually know what they look like? I don't have confidence that the media recognizes that it is breaking millions of models, and also bystanders who are seeing these photoshopped images, and I don't believe they would realize that self-esteem would be broken and destroyed, because they would see these transformations and think they aren't good enough, for our world.

As Dove launched the “Campaign for Real Beauty” in 2004, in response to the findings of a major global study, "the real truth about beauty" -  A Global Report, which had revealed that only 2% of women around the world would describe themselves as beautiful. This is poor, that only 2% find themselves beautiful. Everyone is beautiful and we don't need media telling women they aren't, because being beautiful doesn't entirely mean having skinny, waster and long legs it also means to have a pleasing sense of attitude or mind aesthetically, all women need to know they are beautiful, even if it's their own beauty.

Thanks, 

Melanie 

Barbie World or the Real World?

Growing up as a girl with Barbie dolls it has all come to a realization that we have been manipulated and brainwashed into thinking that there is a ‘perfect image’ we should all strive to be one day, something we should try to become. Though the fact is this perfect image isn’t perfect after all. Then I came across the campaign - "Don't be duped by the doll-like ideal" by Madeleine Murphy, it thoroughly gave a deep insight of how media has taught us from a young age that being the ideal beautiful look is what we should want to pursue in our lifetime. It also further reduces the issue of today’s society is understood by women and that women should not strive to be ‘perfect.’ Times change, so do our standards for how women are represented in today’s society. If we look back to the 1950’s, Marilyn Monroe was around a size 16 and was referred to as the sexiest woman alive, today, the sexiest woman would be classified a size 4-8, or what about during the time of the 60s there were the pinup curvy women who through Tupperware parties, the innocence back in the day sounds 'problem free,' but now we are all worrying about impressing society. There are certain areas of this issue becoming more and more substandard and than areas picking up and gradually getting better.  As we get older and mature it is easier to understand what is happening but it is also easier to be tricked by the media, because fitting in means everything as a teenager, it is easier to be tricked that the Barbie doll is the ideal look we should desire to be, the media and companies creating this illusion are 'forgetting' to put in that this is all makeup, these dolls are an unrealistic estimate of being the perfect model. From my perspective companies are not realizing that women are undergoing surgery to alter themselves to look more like a doll. Little girls are saying ‘i wish I could be as pretty as barbie’ by the time they hit the age of 18, they are transforming themselves into barbie look a likes, and they are not understanding they are ruining diversity which is what makes us all individuals, as the days go by and potentially ruining society. If we have more people like Madeleine Murphy producing campaigns such as "don't be duped by the doll-like ideal" we will all soon come to the understanding and realization that this is all wrong, we need to accept who we are and that these "Barbie dolls" and runway models" are rather genetically this particular way, or just phonies.

The picture above is the ideal image because it is more realistic and natural:

Thanks, 

Melanie