Any magazine you flip through, television commercial you watch or website you see with people modeling clothes gives the same message: perfection. Who can resist that long, luscious, healthy hair, that golden bronze tan, that size-0 waist? Well we, our society, cannot! We see the same type of people in all these ads and messages, so we automatically think, This is how we should all look—like perfect, plastic people. This is the standard of beauty in our society.

Little do we think that the gorgeous hair is retouched, that the golden tan is fake or [ ...continue reading ]