With tools like Photoshop, airbrushing, filters and so much more- technology has made it so that anyone can be transformed into something they aren't. This has taken a huge impact on both men and women as the famous "unrealistic expectations" are being set.
We, the public, even call them out on these unrealistic expectations, and wonder why we continue to bombard ourselves with these ideas.
Yet we do, and beauty industries reap the rewards of making us insecure, and earn millions.
I recently came across this (click here) video, several of you have probably already seen it. Though I
thought it was an interesting angle. It depicts several women having their image photo shopped. All of their imperfections that they have fretted about all of their life were suddenly airbrushed and altered away. However when they were show their improved pictures instead of marveling in their perfection-they felt uncomfortable, stripped of anything that made them real and themselves. I thought it was a powerful video and showed that while we strive for it, when we achieve this perfection we realize that we'd rather be back in our own skin. Being a real human and embracing our differences is the message we should really be pushing out.
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