False Images

Magazines do more than lure people in with numbers and smart titles of articles, they lure people in by creating a false idea of what a person should look like and what they have to do to be as beautiful and successful as the people in the magazine.

The fact is the people in the magazine are produced.  They have multiple people working on them to make them look the way they do.  They have nutritionists and chefs to keep them eating healthy and staying thin.  They have hair stylists, make up stylists, people to tell them what to wear and fitness trainers.  And what’s worse, even after all that “work” their team has put into making them look “perfect”, graphic designers airbrush the photos to make them look flawless and thinner.  These people are not a realist view of “normal” people. 

It is ultimately our responsibility to feel secure within ourselves, however, the magazine companies are being totally irresponsible buy putting these “flawless” images on their covers and in their pages because young women are in the process of discovering their self-esteem and may be influenced to think that they can only obtain self-esteem and security if they look like the models that litter the pages of these magazines.