{"id":233,"date":"2017-01-21T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T22:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/?p=233"},"modified":"2017-01-23T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:45:00","slug":"quick-fixes-zero-stitches-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/2017\/01\/21\/quick-fixes-zero-stitches-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick fixes, zero stitches."},"content":{"rendered":"
With the growing pressures of gender expectations, the amount of\u00a0options available for\u00a0people\u00a0to\u00a0improve their appearances goes way\u00a0beyond just surgery. These are products that I like to call ‘quick fixes’. These quick fixes can be extremely beneficial, however can potentially become addictive or even harmful.<\/p>\n
Ready fake products<\/h3>\n
These products are those that are easily applicable and come ready made. Although not dangerous, these can become addictive if a person starts to use them. Social media often promotes these products and its common amongst beauty pages.\u00a0This\u00a0includes:<\/p>\n
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Fake tan<\/strong>. This has become increasingly popular and is sold in every beauty store. With the intention of giving people a sun kissed, holiday\u00a0glow instantly its easy to see why people would want to use it. It’s often people\u00a0conclude\u00a0you look more slim and more\u00a0attractive\u00a0if you are tanned.\n
Screenshots of tweets about fake tan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Fake nails<\/strong>. Fake nails are more so for decoration rather than a confidence boost, enforcing the idea of girly gender expectations. There are social media pages dedicated to this nail art with thousands and millions of followers, showing us just how important it is to some girls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nInstagram pages dedicated to nail art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hair extensions. <\/strong>Another product commonly promoted on social media, society has assigned the idea of\u00a0long hair to femininity and so putting pressure on women\u00a0to have long hair. Sewn in hair extensions are the generally\u00a0more damaging type,\u00a0however the clip in has been proven to leave lasting effects on your hair. My sister is a regular user of clip in hair extensions, she\u00a0has suffered from patches of hair loss where the clips have been weighing down and pulling out parts of her hair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHair extensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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False lashes and lash extensions<\/strong>. False lashes can be synthetic, silk or mink. These products allow you to have thick, long eyelashes instantly. Lash extensions require the help of\u00a0 a beautician gluing\u00a0the false individually beside the real\u00a0making it look real. False lashes come already attached on a band, again both types are promoted on social media with celebrities bringing out their own ranges. Again, assigning the idea of long lashes with femininity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFalse eyelashes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Developing products<\/h3>\n
These are\u00a0the\u00a0products that change your appearance, but you have to\u00a0do the work. This\u00a0could include anything from makeup to either bleach or using mixed substances to achieve a different and better outcome.<\/p>\n
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Teeth whitening.\u00a0<\/strong>With this, you can opt for the professional, expensive\u00a0teeth whitening procedure OR opt for the more affordable DIY teeth whitening kits (starting as cheap as \u00a35). With youtubers showing video evidence\u00a0of a pearly\u00a0white difference, people have turned to the products themselves. I\u00a0ran a poll to see how many people would actually try it for themselves, and the majority either had tried it or would be willing to try it. This does however come with some precautions, in the attempt to enhance their appearances by using these products, some people\u00a0have resulted in bad reactions or burns due to the unknown mixtures in these cheaper versions. Is it really worth it for a whiter smile?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPoll results and the lasting effects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hair Dye<\/strong>. Peroxides, bleaches and colourants are used to create permanent and non permanent\u00a0changes to your hair. Often people feel the need to go from their original colour to a more vibrant\u00a0or completely different colour. This is because\u00a0shiny\u00a0and voluminous hair is continuously advertised.\u00a0Furthermore social media goes through popular trends which take the internet by storm, recent ones being grey and unicorn hair. As pretty as it looks, its more damaging than you may think resuling\u00a0in\u00a0dry\u00a0split ends, more breakages and also roots when the natural hair grows back. The things we do for ‘beauty’ hey…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUnicorn hair trend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Common Products<\/h3>\n
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Makeup. <\/strong>As one of the most\u00a0common ways of altering your appearance, makeup is\u00a0frequently associated with gender expectations. Women are often expected to look\u00a0amazing all the time\u00a0and this is usually how they achieve it. If done correctly, a persons appearance can be altered\u00a0a great deal. By using certain\u00a0products such as foundation, contour and highlight, you can enhance or make parts of the face look slimmer, you often see this in the form of tutorials on YouTube.\u00a0This is something I hope to experiment with in an upcoming blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMakeup transformation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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‘Waist training’. <\/strong>This trend has become globally popular with the help of celebrities such as the Kardashians. The idea is to wear\u00a0the waist trainer\u00a0for a certain amount of time every day, and eventually, your body “moulds” itself into a slimmer figure. Women are under pressure to fill the stereotype of a small waist and big hips and so have turned to this in the hopes of help. However this isn’t as entirely as safe as it seems, whilst wearing the\u00a0trainer you’re essentially\u00a0squashing your lungs and ribs, which makes it hard to breathe. Some women have actually passed out from wearing one for too long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWaist Training<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Supplements<\/h3>\n
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Skinny Pills. <\/strong>Products like these are often promoted to encourage\u00a0you to live up to\u00a0body stereotypes. I would be lying if I said its not intriguing, as I myself have bought raspberry ketones before. Although these pills can make you feel full and curb your cravings, there are\u00a0said to be\u00a0some possible\u00a0side effects. These\u00a0include;\u00a0Increased heart rate, high blood pressure,\u00a0 diarrhoea, sleeplessness and kidney problems. Essentially women are putting themselves at risk to attain gender expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSkinny Pills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bootea. <\/strong><\/strong>This detox is said to make you loose weight over a period of 14 or 28 days. It contains ingredients that will cause you to urinate more frequently. Although it may cause you to lose water weight, experts say\u00a0it is unlikely to do anything else. Bootea is successful due to its massive presence on social media, but many say that’s as far as it goes.\u00a0It can give you some pretty bad side effects\u00a0including vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. But still,\u00a0many women turn to it in the hopes of loosing weight and achieving the gender expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe Instagram hashtag Bootea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Although some products are extremely helpful with insecurities, its important to put your health before your appearance because\u00a0no gender expectations are worth damaging yourself over.<\/p>\n
With the growing pressures of gender expectations, the amount of\u00a0options available for\u00a0people\u00a0to\u00a0improve their appearances goes way\u00a0beyond just surgery. These are products that I like to call ‘quick fixes’. These quick fixes can be extremely beneficial, however can potentially become addictive or even harmful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,15,20,18,17,5,19,16,23,7,21,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/georgiayoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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