I Prefer Natural Beauty Over Artificial Beauty
Skin-deep... I have my own insecurities about myself, and trust me, they are numerous, but I can't fathom the amount of insecurity that go into changing one's own self. Fake boobs, botox, plastic surgery. Sure, they may change how you look on the outside, but they can't change your perspective, they one that was so insecure that compelled you to get it in the first place. And those kind of deep-seated insecurities don't just go away shelling out an arm and a leg to change how you look on the outside.
Maybe it does give them better self-esteem. But then we're looking at a problem with our culture, one that breaks down people so much, that gives them an image of "this is what you should look like, and if you deviate even a little from it, you're ugly, and should be an outcast." We're so inundated with this image, this idea of beauty, both guys and girls-guys, being told what a beautiful woman is, and having increasingly higher standards, and girls, being told how they should look if they want to be pretty-that people forget the real important, if not cliché idea: that beauty comes from within. It's not completely how you look that makes one a beautiful person. I've met many a self-proclaimed beauty that were complete bitches, drunk on their own self-importance. Beauty is how one acts towards one another, it's in one's thoughts and actions, in one's personality, the littlest of movements and actions. It's not wholly in the outward appearance, a form of beauty that is given way too much weight by today's culture.
That being said, I can understand what pushes people to change themselves in this way... but remember... it's not real; it can only change so much. I'm a man who doesn't even like makeup that much, so I know other people may have differing views of this, but I definitely appreciate realism, naturalism, and people being genuine and upfront with me, with all their strengths and flaws (and flaw is flexible; what you view as a flaw may not be viewed as such to others). Victor Hugo said, "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." People who truly are there for you, who love you, don't care about your self-proclaimed flaws; they love you for them. Don't mess around people whose beauty is only skin-deep, and are truly ugly inside.
Maybe it does give them better self-esteem. But then we're looking at a problem with our culture, one that breaks down people so much, that gives them an image of "this is what you should look like, and if you deviate even a little from it, you're ugly, and should be an outcast." We're so inundated with this image, this idea of beauty, both guys and girls-guys, being told what a beautiful woman is, and having increasingly higher standards, and girls, being told how they should look if they want to be pretty-that people forget the real important, if not cliché idea: that beauty comes from within. It's not completely how you look that makes one a beautiful person. I've met many a self-proclaimed beauty that were complete bitches, drunk on their own self-importance. Beauty is how one acts towards one another, it's in one's thoughts and actions, in one's personality, the littlest of movements and actions. It's not wholly in the outward appearance, a form of beauty that is given way too much weight by today's culture.
That being said, I can understand what pushes people to change themselves in this way... but remember... it's not real; it can only change so much. I'm a man who doesn't even like makeup that much, so I know other people may have differing views of this, but I definitely appreciate realism, naturalism, and people being genuine and upfront with me, with all their strengths and flaws (and flaw is flexible; what you view as a flaw may not be viewed as such to others). Victor Hugo said, "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." People who truly are there for you, who love you, don't care about your self-proclaimed flaws; they love you for them. Don't mess around people whose beauty is only skin-deep, and are truly ugly inside.
31-35, M