Hair is dead. Let’s start
off with that fact right there.
Add tons of dye to it and you
might as well look like you just
got struck by lighting. Okay
so, realistically, not everyone
who dyes their hair is a walking
witch. But to say it’s not healthy
Kelsey Elliott
Opinions Editor
Hair
makeup, some take it to the extreme.
Some even go the lengths of having
their eyeliner, blush, and lip liner
tattooed onto their face. You have
to wonder, is the forty dollar MAC
foundation worth it or maybe people
should think, “Maybe its Maybelline,”
because in the end, beauty fades.
show that Botox procedures were
performed over two million times in
the year 2003 in the U.S. That’s even 37
percent higher than in 2002, according
to the American Costmetic Surgery
Network website. Botox is responsible
for transforming perfectly normal
human beings into frighteningly faux
monsters who are far too obsessed with
their appearances.
for you is an understatement.
If you don’t enjoy the length
of your hair, then why cut it
when you can grow it in point
two seconds? Extensions are
a great way to make your self
look like a hooker everyday!
Hair is dead. Let’s keep it natural.
From Covergirl to MAC,
makeup is all around us. Some use
it to enhance their appearance;
others use it to hide unsightly
blemishes. The question is where
people should draw the line on how
much we invest in our appearances.
While some girls use just a little bit of
Emma Glassman-Hughes
Staff Writer
Makeup
We’ve all seen them. The pathetic
women who walk around like their
youth has just been restored with
Botox treatments. They try to smile
like a natural person but their overly
worked-on skin won’t budge and they
just seem to be parading around crazed
and confused.
Unfortunately in today’s world, this
image is far from rare. In fact, studies
Sarah Briggs
Features Editor
Botox
Beautiful
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Photo Credit//Lindsay Adler
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Smokey eyes, chromed blush, attain such implausible standards.
orange skin, and a tight sequined And when you read that over
dress. No, I’m not referring to a eight million Americans had eating
Vegas showgirl; this child is six years disorders last year, my previous
old.
paragraph doesn’t seem so blown
Eden Wood, beauty pageant out of proportion anymore.
queen starring on the hit TLC
The media puts out such an
show, Toddlers and Tiaras, has unrealistic standard for beauty that it
been applying fake eyelashes and often drives people to the edge. But,
accumulating plastic crowns since I’m sorry, I just don’t find anything
she was four years old.
beautiful about face lifts, Botox, and
Just to add to the irrationality, starving yourself for glamour.
Wood now has her own doll for sale,
For all you plastic, fake
“The Eden Wood Showgirl,” which breasted, small purse dog-owning
hit markets late last year.
women, pour yourself a glass of
Is anyone else at all repulsed? self-confidence and love yourself
This is one
for the way you
of
those
are naturally.
circumstances
Sure,
the
where all I can
media
can
do is raise my
and
Society
broadcast influence
hands
and
manipulate people
distorted
images
of into believing what
wonder what
beauty that if you’re not “true beauty” is,
the hell is
5’ 10”, a size two, and have but ultimately it’s
wrong with
people.
individual’s
D cups, you might as well an
Maybe
decision
whether
put a paper bag over your
I missed the
to let it run their
head.”
memo, but
life or not.
when I was
It’s fine to
six years old, I
want to look nice
was bumping
and presentable,
N’sync
and
but it’s not okay
skinning my
to lose yourself
knees trying to master the art of trying to chase some unquenchable
rollerblading.
thirst for perfection.
I was not, on the other hand,
To me, beauty isn’t sporting
twirling my spray-tanned body True Religion jeans and six inch
around in circles on stage trying to heels; it’s about rocking my favorite
appear perfect and refined.
popcorn butter-stained sweats with
That’s not beauty. That’s just flip-flops knowing that the people
insanity.
who matter love me anyway.
Society broadcasts distorted
Beauty is about how you view
images of beauty that if you’re not 5’ yourself, not how Vogue magazine
10,’’ a size two, and have D cups, you would air brush you. Living a
might as well put a paper bag over life with your own definition of
your head and hitch-hike back to the happiness, whether you’re 90
swamp, because you’re a mongrel.
pounds or 300 pounds beats some
As exaggerated as that should narcissistic chase for your next spray
sound, girls kill themselves just to tan and Liposuction any day.
Brittlyn Foster
Staff Writer
Beauty Distorted Throughout Ages
Opinions // September 23, 2011