Conforming to Beauty Standards

A Blog exploring just how far we are willing to go to conform to beauty.

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So as this is my first blog post, I thought it would be fitting to give a bit of basic information about my blog topic and why I’ve chosen to do it!

So a little about me… I was born in Zambia and raised there till I was 8 when my family moved from there to Britain. Moving countries at such a young age and having to adjust to a new way of living and experiencing a new culture at such a young age has had such a large impact on me. When I was living in Zambia, the main beauty standard that I understood at the time and many women conformed to was being ‘light skinned’. Though I believe that there is nothing wrong, ugly, or bad about having dark skin, back then (and now) there was an ideology that if you were dark skinned you either came from poverty or were unattractive. This caused women and still does to invest in skin lighting products that essentially bleach your skin so you appear to be lighter than you actually are.

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Kim Kardashian posing in a body corset.

But since moving to Britain and becoming westernized to an extent, growing up here has introduced me and educated me to so many methods and ways that men and women think will make them become more attractive or socially attractive. Now fast forward to a time period where we are influenced by majority of the content we see online and being exposed to the likes of The Kardashians’, The Rock, or even Instagram celebrities encourage many of us to be like them, act like them, and look like them in order to feel more empowered or famous.

 

This has led to an uncontrollable spiral of Beauty Standards within today’s society to an extent where women are now having their lips filled in order to have big ‘pouty’ lips, wearing corsets to shrink their waists in order to have the perfect body and men have become hyper active with their health and fitness to a point where drug enhancements are being used in order to maintain and grow the perfect body.

Overall, this creates unrealistic standards that many of us are now conforming to and I want to find out along my blogging journey just how far some individuals are willing to go in order to conform to unrealistic beauty standards.

 

 

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