Cosmetic beauty allows you to be diverse and express yourself, it also allows you to try to test and come up with many different looks. Generally speaking one day you could change your look, and be chic and sexy, while on another day you could calm your appearance down and have a more innocent and sweet look. Confidence is the key in the cosmetic outlook. Many females feel more beautiful and nice about themselves due to the fact that they have makeup on; you could say that cosmetics help people feel more self assured about themselves. In today’s generation people are a lot more judgmental, therefore many women believe they have imperfections and flaws.
They were most interested in sports, had male social groups and had a low tolerance for most girls. We discussed that family status and environment does play a significant role in the girls’ decisions and actions regarding which social group they entered into. We saw that the girls with single parents or from a low socioeconomic status tend to act out or try to gain negative attention from their peers and authority. In our group we discussed how one of the group members was a tomboy because she valued the respect of the boys for their drive and determination. Another girl in the group was a girlie girl because she went to an all-girls high school.
Songwriting Task: Comment on the difference between in approach of four different songwriters who compose in contrasting styles. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, otherwise known in popular culture as Lady Gaga, is a singer-writer who originated in New York. Lady Gaga is most known as a pop singer, composing mainly dance-pop and electronic songs. However, in her earlier years of music, before she met with fame under her pseudo-name, her music was much more driven by acoustic sounds, using real sounds such as piano and electric guitars so achieve a much more rock driven sound. Despite having made a shift in genres, Lady Gaga still manages to achieve a rock sound in many of her songs, working with rock producers and artists like Robert “Mutt” Lange and Queen’s guitarist Brian May.
The research also showed how these issues can be corrected or even prevented. Most often it is easy to spot girls who battle with low self-esteem and low self confidence, by their body language and conversations. Most girls experience insecurity or low self-esteem around the middle school years. The need to focus on the elementary and middle school years is far more important today than it was twenty years ago. Ashes for Beauty there are only gainers and no losers.
In the opening sequence of “clueless” the film maker has already captured the attention of the audience by the sound/music and camera techniques the title which could suggest it is it show how one girl could be rich, popular, and more but still be so “clueless” The film maker has based this film on a young life style of a young girl so the genre of this film is a teenage comedy. We know this because, in the opening sence they use child like and very feminine colours so this is defiantly going to appeal to teenagers. They then go on to show teenage issues e.g. gossip which Cher can’t live with out, clothes and fashion are very important to a popular girl and even when they can’t buy they can still look. Money is very important to a teenage girl in there eyes you can never have too much, money also
In addition, models has the biggest effect on young americans especially young girls. This is where the obsession becomes serious. Most models are between the sizes of zero and five and young girls often try to emulate that figure. Girls often find models to be impeccable, with their nice shaped bodies and their infallible skin. Boys sometimes feel the same way about male models.
In magazines, the “ideal” body type is always on the cover so teens wont be able to miss it. In the film by Kibourne, she shows an ad with an excessively thin girls sitting down. The caption of that ad said, “The more you subtract, the more you add.” This caption sends the wrong message to these adolescents who look at it. Because they are inexperienced, they take whatever they see into consideration. Like Kilbourne said, they are the prime targets.
But the artist who draws everyone’s attention, everyone has heard of and makes many want to constantly be listening to her and be like her, someone who is a key element of my generation has to be Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga has been making a name for herself as soon as her pop music hit the radio. Her first hit was “Just Dance” release in 2008. Hitting #1 in the billboard charts in 2009 followed by the release of her first album, The Fame. This really got people listening and earned her 8 Grammy nomination and 2 wins.
Also, when I looked to the TV, I noticed how thin many actresses my age were, and I just didn’t understand why I couldn’t be that skinny. Like any other teenage girl in America, I also loved to read fashion magazines, and I would see these gorgeous models that were so thin and pretty and try to exercise and be like them. Our American society does not realize how much of an influence the media has on teens; and as a country we need to address this issue for what it is: The self esteem of our next
During their teenage years, girls start to question their identity. Modeling teaches young girls to center their identity only on their looks (Machoian). Girls look at magazines and see a beautiful model on the cover wishing that they looked the same. They forget that the model they see on the cover has make-up on, and, most likely the picture was edited using some type of photo shop. Modeling along with social media give girls the impression that they have to fit this idealized image to look thin and be beautiful, dress up nicely, and wear makeup or they will not be happy with themselves.