Beauty

How is beauty portrayedin the media? Is hair and having style all about beauty? What does beauty mean to you? The author in "Plaits" Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon is discussing images of beauty and obsession with hair in young girl's minds. The images os young girls back then has not yet changed from what is expected from young girls today. Today young girls must be a certain skin color like white or a perfect tan color, a certain hair type like silky blonde or brown, a certain body figure like tall and skinny, etc....the list can go on and on but what most want to know is what really is the true meaning of beauty. Most will compare themselves with celebrity's but is they're beauty really beauty? Are they really flawless?

Being beautiful today in society and in the masss media is being all bones and skin. You have to be a size zero in every piece of clothing you wear. Our society wants these young girls to look perfect and flawless when in actuality no one is flawless. To the media everything must look perfect, so perfect that one piece of hair cannot be out of place. Is that really what we want our young girls to look like?

Beauty is personality, beauty is honesty, but beauty can be a number of things. It's not just about how you look on the outside but how you feel on te outside. Your beauty is how confident you are in you own skin. You don't have to be a size zero in everything you wear just feel comfortable. Wishing that the young girls of todays world weren't so caught up in the media and not be so concerned about how they look but be interested in school and what life has to offer!