The depths of beauty: How far will you go to achieve it

Today as soon as I turned on the TV to check the weather report, there was one of those annoying infomercials on talking about a revolutionary new make up product that hides blemishes, freckles, whatever you can imagine from public eye. In my opinion… putting on a mask.

Now, I am not against someone wearing a bit of makeup to enhance appearance if the person thinks it’s necessary, such as a bit of lip colour, some mascara or a pinch of rouge to brighten the cheeks.And I’m not some sort of religious zealot who chastise women for their vainness, however... I have to comment on these commercials and the media who has made looking a certain way mandatory for success and happiness.

This infomercial today was such that a small beauty mark on this girls face was seen as a disease and disfiguring. I watched as the host of the show ask the audience if they could see where the mark was, no one could find it under the makeup that carefully hid it from everyone to see.

The girl gave her story of feeling as if everyone stared at her before she removed the cover up… She gave the impression her mark was hideous and disfiguring, you know like Quasimodo or the elephant man… but after seeing it… it left me with a sour taste in my mouth and anger welling up in the pit of my soul, not from the looks of the mark but the vainness of society to be so hopeless that a mark such as that would cause a person such uncomfortable feelings.

The host then asked the her client to remove the makeup where she uncovered a small very slightly discoloured mark on her face from the just below the bridge of her nose to just under the corner of her left eye, hardly an inch long and half inch wide that almost looked like a tear and some freckles.

I thought, is that it?? Is that all that you are so worried about?? How pathetic I thought...

But this is society today. This is how we are brainwashed to think and feel...

There are TV reality shows now that cover complete make-overs and plastic surgery. Imagine the “prize patrol” that publishers clearing house does when they are surprising you with ten million bucks… now there is a “make over patrol” that surprises you with a complete make over. Like guess what… you are ugly and do not conform to the way society thinks you should look… so we are going to change you!

Today as you look around in society, in the media, everything from books to magazines; movies to even video games, looking a certain way is the only way you can achieve greatness in life. Success depends on how you dress, how your hair is styled and what you look like. Happiness depends on being thin, active and perfect teeth and skin like creamy white satin.

Every weekly show on television, no matter if it is a comedy, or drama, the happy successful character is thin, perfect hair, stylish clothes, big houses etc etc… I’m sure you have seen it yourself… and all the characters who are poor, unsuccessful women are fat or on the larger end of the scale, men it seems, doesn’t matter as much as many times larger men are seen as being successful. Anyway back to the poor, not so successful female as they are seen as messy, disheveled hair, no make up if any or too much make up with blues and purples that don’t complement but make her look like a Saturday night hooker. Think of the hagish looking female on the cartoon "the rescuers" that adopted Penny.

You never see women running out to the store to make themselves look like her, but instead they want to look like the female they see on TV… these stars who have their own clotheslines so we can be mini me’s of that "successful artist", no one just being themselves anymore.

Just go to any store, JC Penny's, Wal-mart, Target, etc... tons of clothes designed by various actresses pushed like drugs from corner dealers. Perfumes, make up... yes make up, deodorant, you name it its there somewhere.

Happiness, as seen through todays society, is found in a make up bottle or brush to paint on a new face and the look that men in this world are force fed day and night of plastic air brushed females in the magazines, movies, books (as if many men or female, picks up a good book anymore) and video games (this is more their speed today, that along with fap mags and T&A clips)…

No man or woman ever satisfied today with true human looks, you know the one we are born with. Our personality is forced to put on a mask everyday to appease societies demand for its perceived beauty.

A time used to be where people were seen though the eyes of the beholder, where love was based on what a person was inside not the outer shell that’s put on with what a person wears, whether it’s the style of clothes, or mask.Beauty used to be seen in the soul, the kind of personality a person had, whether or not he was rich or poor.

It was seen in the depths of a persons eyes and the traits he or she possessed. Success was decided on the persons education and happiness in his hard work.

Today success is measured by how many cars a person has and the size of his wallet, while his outer shell and his companionship are those who are just a clone of him determines his happiness.

When a small mark on the face becomes hideous and depressing and the person feels suicidal, society has gone too far in determining beauty. To push their face creams, makeup, their idea of what beauty really is, is one of the biggest sins imaginable in my opinion.

Destroying the human spirit and natural beauty that comes from within a person so we can make others happy and rich adds to the decline of humanity. Being so overly concerned about superficial beauty keeps people cast in certain class structures that inhibit our spirit and is just as bad as racial and religious discrimination in my opinion.

The struggle for diversity becomes null because no one is left to be just themselves anymore. We all have to become market clones of what is seen on the wide screen in order to feel we are accepted in our obsessed society.

And you know the most ironic thing of all of this makeup, cover-up crap, is at the end of the day, the woman goes through another regiment of media force-fed crap of make up removal and clear clean skin products that the makeup they first endorsed clogs the natural cleaning ability through the skins pores. All a vicious cycle to spend more money and make others "successful".