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This video talks about how important in our society is looking as close as the perfection as possible. This pursuit of beauty can become dangerous for little kids, teenagers and adults. The goal of this video is to let people think about how much our society and our society consider important being beautiful is, even to get a job that should not require being good-looking except some cases.

The author of this video in order not to be vague decides to add commercials, front pages of magazines and advertisements that we see every single day and that affect the way we look at ourselves and other people. Social media use young women with perfect bodies, perfect skin and perfect hair to make other women so jealous that they are lead to buy those magic creams, hair products and make up. In the video the song “Barbie girl” is used to emphasize the stereotype of the perfect girl that cannot exist in the real world because she should be made of plastic to be so beautiful. What a ordinary woman should have to look like a Barbie is: eye lift, nose job, tummy tuck, perfect tan, lypo, breast implants, botox.

At the question: does look matter? Every interviewed teenager answered a positive yes. And what the video says is that it is not just the way that we look ourselves that changed through years, but also the way we look others. Magazines are sold because they promise to give guides to have perfect skin, skinny body, to dress up always sexy and in the right way. Also TV series and movies send the direct message that happiness and success are reached with beauty and they convince to change ourselves to become attractive based on what the society thinks is beautiful.

The scary fact is that women do not use just make up, which is pretty inoffensive, but they want more so they also decided to get a surgery, or more than one, and fix their bodies and faces. More than 80% of women declare that they are not satisfied of their bodies and most of the time because of their weight. These women then try to lose weight in extreme ways and start to suffer of a mental issue called eating disorder and this include: skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, taking laxatives or vomiting.

What the video wants to say is that beauty does not have just one definition because we all have our own qualities that make us unique. We need to take a step back and redefine beauty. The real beauty is the happiness, the energy, the love that shines in each one of us. It is in your friends, in your family, in who makes you laugh and love you and most of all it is in you.