Don’t Believe The Magazines!

Ever wished that you looked like “that” model on “that” magazine? Yes? Chances are most Australians have thought this or something like this at some point in their lives. We live in a world filled with beautiful women and handsome men in movies & magazines, on billboards and the internet. But have you noticed something? There is a suspicious lack of those ridiculously “hot” people walking down the street, in the supermarkets and in our workplaces. Where do these people spring up from, you wonder?

Recently Dove started a campaign called ‘Real Beauty’ which gives us the answer to this very question: The people that you see on the street, the “fairly pretty” or “attractive” people, become the flawlessly beautiful people in the magazines and on the billboards.

A regular person…

 

with the aid of make-up, hair curling and lighting becomes…

with the aid of Photoshop becomes…

See the video on (click on ‘Evolution’): http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com.au/dove-self-esteem-fund/

The sad thing is that exposure to these modified, hyper-real people is that we are not only being fooled into believing that these people actually exist, but also that we have to try and be as beautiful as they are! How wrong is that?!

For years now, girls, we’ve been hiding our true beauty and our individuality behind foundation, shaved legs and fake tan, and it’s time that we realised that we don’t need to!

Not just the girls, but the guys too! You don’t need to hide you really are  behind a macho exterior. If you like pink, that’s okay!

I guess what I am trying to say is: just be yourself, don’t try to be something that you aren’t, and don’t let yourself be squeezed into the mould of the world.

Peace Out brothers and sisters!