http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qkfuAIkvI
I have watched this along with her new series named " Katie piper my beautiful friends" both of which i have found very inspiring!
I have also brought her autobiography which on day 2 of purchase i am three quarters of the way through!
(which for me is amazing because i get very distracted when reading! and it normally takes me months to finish a book if i even manage to read it for that long!)
I have also been reading alot into the history of beauty and the barbie doll effect which has come alot from the porn star type image.
personally at this stage i feel that beauty has changed alot since the introduction of pornography and plastic surgery!( however at this stage this is just a personal opinion)
I have also bought Susie Orbach's "Bodies" which i have read the first chapter of (and am already finding it very inspiring both for work and for personal reasons) but am concentrating on the Katie piper book at the moment but am almost finished so will be moving on to it strait after!
Today i also brought "The Beauty Myth" from amazon, and can expect that in the next few days so more for me to read!!
To add to this i watched the hole series of "Beuty and the beast the ugly face of predudice" which was also very helpful they talked alot about how it seems so un exeptable to put someone who isnt "commercialy beautiful" in a fashion advert, yet to me this asks, is it not the product that is being advertised rather than the person in it?!
Too me it seems so strange that they feel the need to advertise a lifestyle rather than a product, and do people really belive that if they wear a certain perfume or dress that there life will as a result be perfect?
It again proves how the fashion industry is so realiant on looks, which links back to Katie piper's story, before the incident in march 2008 her life was based on looks as her carer was in modeling and presenting, but now it has been ruined by a jealous and evil man, and from getting so many casting calls and modelling jobs it has all changed just because of her looks, even though she has a beautiful personlity it is sad that camera cant pick this up.
I am looking forward to writing this paper as it is something i feel strongly about and as a young female something that on a daily basis effects me with constant bombardment from magazines, adverts and tv shows to be not only be the best i can be but to somehow through using useless beauty products that usally dont work, be as perfect as the airbrushed women in the adverts.
Something else i have noticed is that in recent years the "male gaze" seems to have been left behind and now i feel it is more of a "female gaze" young girls and women constantly judging each other for what they look and act like, if someone looks better than you it seems to be natural these days to feel the need to comment and put them down, if a girl is pretty and nice then there has to be something wrong with her,
again a very unfair aspect of everyday life for lots of girls, this also something i think has impacted the beauty industry massivly and is something i think i should talk alot about in my essay because it's not just the media but we are also turning on each other
Cant we all just be nice!?
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