How can cosmetics help me to raise my self-esteem?
- Advertisers promote a beauty standard that doesn’t come naturally to most women: the beauty industry is bombarding us with the images of large and distinct eyes, prominent nose, peachy lips, and clear skin. Then, it goes further by displaying tall models with flat stomachs, large breasts, long and shiny hair, visible hip bones, and long and slender legs. These images shaped today's beauty standard which is causing tremendous negative affect in our society. Surveys and researches have found that all women, including young children, are suffering from low self-esteem resulting in serious health problems, both mentally and physically. Young children, adolescents, and even full-grown up adults are tormented with the unhealthy obsession of food, diet, and appearance. They feel great anxiety and nervousness when presented in front of others, even between friends, which often results in depression and eating disorders. This anxiety and nervousness can be resolved temporarily when women wear make up. Women can use cosmetics to hide the qualities they do not like and accentuates the things they do. Cosmetics are often a tool used for social self-presentation and self-image management. For example, a blemish on the skin, such as pimples, can lead to embarrassment, humiliation, or other negative body-image experiences due to the social standard of clean skin. Therefore, women loses confidence and self-esteem when they find a tiny pimple on their skin. Using cosmetics, such as foundation and concealer, can help a woman hide facial blemishes and other abnormalities which cause her to feel self-conscious. Such use of facial cosmetics may help to boost a woman’s sense of confidence in her appearance, thus making her more self-assured. Therefore, I believe that cosmetics is the first step that could temporarily solve the problem of low self-esteem which can easily lead into mental and physical health problems. Again, I emphasise that cosmetics is only the first step and temporary solution to such problems. If you are suffering from low self-esteem, you must have a conversation with trustable adults around you. Most of all, you MUST learn to love yourself more than anybody in the world.