Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Conventional Beauty
I have been thinking about the discussion we had in class today, and I remembered seeing a very interesting YouTube video about distorted beauty. We talked today about how in order to be successful in any kind of popular culture women need to follow certain beauty standards. Who are the people who decide what these standards should entail? We talked a lot today about effortless beauty for women and men, and in this short video this woman's "beauty" is anything but effortless. Enjoy!
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Yeah, that's really interesting that it was a dove video after what we talked about in class about Dove and Axe being owned by the same company.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think that the beauty shown here was anything but effortless. The woman had caked on make-up and they curled her hair. Not only did they try to make her into the beauty ideal by doing her hair and make-up, but they fixed "flaws" using the computer technology.
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