My Natural, but Photoshopped Beauty

So how do we even find natural beauty?


It always annoys me to hear others say, "Well you should be thin, but not too thin" or, "You want to apply some makeup, so you won't look dead, but not too much so that it looks natural."

I've come to find that society has put us into these brackets of "not enough, but not too much"

Sadly, it's another double bind in itself.

In a short, but sweet, article  this phenomena is reported oh so vividly. In the media, we see these photos of perfectly flawless women. Their skin has a "natural" glow to them and their simplicity is what makes them that much more unattainable. Their clothing falls in just the perfect ways and everything about their demeanor appears to convey a natural sense of beauty. It appears to be effortless. So as silly consumers, we buy into this notion of beauty. We say to ourselves "I want to look just like her. She makes it look so easy" but the truth is, ITS NOT! It's not even realistic. As the article points out, the irony is in the fact that many hours are spent in effort to obtain such an "effortless" look. Are you seeing that bind now?