Hi!

 

Obssesion of looks is a good discription of where we are today, Where ever we go or where ever we look we constantly compare and see, how you and other people should look like. Makeup companies make billions of dollors every year. 

 

The commercial pictures all over the citys and places where we walk around are quite often what we think about when we think of perfection. The truth behind this images is that the models that often are in many pictures live a not so healthy life because they constantly have to work out and eat right to not gain weight. The mesurements are very hard and many girls go from skinny to even more skinny. 

 

Also the pictures are often photoshoped in different ways to ba able to meet the standards of perfection. 

 

It's in some ways kind of sad that all of this starts so damn early and many girls start thinking about apperance way to early. 

 

We also have problems with depression and different eating disorders and many "illnes" who are because of looks and apperance. I am not saying it's wrong but it's a fact. How to get this development to slow down i dont know. But it is a growing problem in society. 

 

Yes i am in some ways a quite typicall girls in the way that i care about my apperance just like every one else. Although i try to be awear of it and keep it on a good/healthy leavel. 

 

It also has to do with what you find attractive and what kind of selt essteam you have. Do we want extremly slender girls or do we want happy and healthy girls? And boys to ofcourse. Although many times i find that the commercial is more directed to girls then men. Although i know that when the perfection of looks kicks in it dosen't matter to much if you are a women or a man, girl or boy there are still perfections out there who we try to copy and such. 

 

Here is a little documentary from the USA about looks: 

 

 

//Elise C