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Positivity: Are your lips TOO BIG!? Lipstick Tutorial
Positivity: Are your lips TOO BIG!? Lipstick Tutorial This is very positive imagery about a woman who had a discomfort with her large lips. Jalessa Jaikaran speaks openly about how she turned the lips she once hated into lips she now loves. In the beginning of the video she describes her negative feelings about her lips by revisiting the things she would say to herself. She even talked about scenarios when people suggested color to her and she would reply “my lips to big for that” in her trini accent. She hated them so much that she would only wear clear lip gloss. She never wore colors because she didn’t want her…
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Ugly to Pretty Transformations: Are they Helpful or Harmful?
I was watching a hand full of youtube video’s called from “Ugly to Pretty transformations”. All of the women started their videos without make-up claiming that they were ugly. The women in these video apply various foundations, eye shadows, false lashes, and concealers to their faces to create what they call “pretty”. I found these video to be helpful for those who like to enhance their beauty but harmful for those who think they aren’t beautiful without it. Watching these tutorials I find that when they are done they look nothing like themselves at all. Is the point of make-up to put you into someone else’s skin so you don’t…
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Dove Helps Us Women See Our Real Beauty!
Dove Helps Us Women See Our Real Beauty Women are the most critical of their own body image. Dove is promoting healthy perception of self among women. In their commercial they have an forensic artist draw each woman as they describe themselves and each other. Now the artist didn’t see any of the women, he just drew what was described by each one. After he completed the drawing the women were very surprised at how critical they were on certain parts of their face. One woman said she described a sad woman after looking over the picture drawn of her. Then when the women looked at how they were described by other…
