The Portrayal of Beauty in the Media

Each day million of women impatiently open their favorite magazines and enviously watch flawless photographs of beautiful models. People admire their lovely faces, perfect skins and ultra-thin bodies. We envy them. We adore them. We desire to be like them. Why?

It is well-known that the majority of magazines’ photographs are not considered as actual. The photographs are usually edited in Photoshop to cover any imperfections and therefore the models look like the superior creatures. We know that the models’ bodies and their overall appearance are very improved and unreal, but unfortunately, our perception of beauty is so distorted and influenced by media’s presentation of an ideal woman that we do not fully realize that it is just a lie. Media glorifies the cult of perfection and thinness and our society is becoming to be obsessed with diet programs and plastic surgeries.

Magazine. Digital image. The Average Girl's Guide.
14 Aug. 2013. Web. 13 May 2014. 

Hence, I think that it is important to look at this issue closer to we could perceive the magazines pages from a different perspective and avoid dissatisfaction with our bodies and physical appearance.
We should widely open our minds, deny media’s portrayals and try to create our own beauty ideal, the realistic one.