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Subject: Research Paper: Perfection! Author: Kimberly Hamberg [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:14:28 04/15/04 Thu Through my years of childhood and adolescence I have seen my friends and family suffer with trying to be the ‘perfect image.’ I myself have often said I was going on a diet to lose those five pounds I had seemed to put on, and I am constantly altering my image by coloring my hair, waxing my eyebrows, using a tanning bed to get nice and bronze, but it all comes down to this: wasting time to find the perfect image. What is the perfect image, and why has society brainwashed us into believing we all have to be this perfect model of beauty? Society has taught us women must have the ‘perfect’ hair, the ‘perfect’ make-up, and the ‘perfect’ body. Men and women differ dramatically when it comes to personal hygiene; but look around, you will see more men working out at the gym, getting their hair colored, eyebrows, chest, and back waxed, some men are even going to salons to use the tanning bed for that ‘perfect’ tan. A wise man once said to me, “Most men don’t like women as skinny as they think.” I applaud that! What ever happened to it being okay to have curves? These days not only grown women, but young girls are becoming anorexic and bolemic, all for that hunk that is also trying to achieve the ‘perfect image.’ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]