Looking Beautiful vs Being Beautiful

beauty [byoo-tee] n: the quality of a person (particularly a woman) having absolutely no physical imperfections, skin blemishes, or visible fat on a single part of her body.

Our culture defines beauty as perfection. We see this
definition in all kinds of media: television, movies, commercials, billboards, and magazines. Say 'beautiful' and super-models and movie stars fight to be named number one. The media sends out this distorted version of 'beauty' (scantily clad, digitally altered women wearing too much make-up and air-brushed tans) in magazines, advertisements, and TV shows. It offers these women as role models for young girls, presenting their beauty as some kind of goal, or a promise of what they too can
look like if they just buy whatever product it’s selling. Meanwhile, in its efforts to make more money or get higher ratings, it leaves nothing but destroyed girls behind. Through the presentation of the models’ beauty as attainable, the media leaves girls who don’t resemble them wondering why they don’t, and desperately trying to change.

It’s no wonder our hospitals are filled with anorexic and
bulimic young girls. Studies show that one or two of every 100 students (ages 12-25) struggle with either Anorexia or Bulimia at some point in their lives (KidsHealth), and maybe it’s because they strive too much
to look like the women on TV and in magazines. The main problem with celebrities is they really aren’t as ‘beautiful’ as the pictures lead people to believe. Between make-up, hair-color, spray-tans, tummy-
tucks, and digital-alterations, their appearances are completely changed. The final product that reaches the public may not look anything like the original person. Magazine editors even air-brush excess fat out of pictures. Because our culture has placed such a
skinny definition on the word ‘beauty’, very few women fit into it without being unhealthy.

It’s time we get away from this skinny definition of beauty and re-define it.

beauty [byoo-tee] n: the quality of a person (particularly a woman)loving who they are, being thankful for their unique shape, and not caring about what other people think of their bodies.

Being Beautiful should not be defined by the standards of people around you, but rather it is seeing yourself in the eyes of our creator.

So Girls, remember that You are fashioned by God... A designer ORIGINAL!