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Cindy Leyva
ENG 101
Professor Tusay
8 April 2015
The Reality of the Beauty Industry
Lets go back in the time and try to remember what you were doing when you were 13
years old. What were your favorite T.V. shows? Favorite song? Activities? At 13 years old I
started looking for answers. Luckily in 2008 we had something incredible called the internet and
the internet offered many social media websites. I searched up all these beauty tips online,
looked up videos on YouTube. Then suddenly I realized there were other girls online doing the
same thing as me and were interested in all these make up tips. YouTube had all these videos of
girls that love to share their tips and secrets of how to apply makeup and look pretty. I was very
interested in the beauty industry. These girls online had so much to offer not only did they know
how to do make-up and hair but they had a unique sense of style. The beauty industry uses all
these social media websites to get their information out. Every teenage girl wants the latest
hairstyle or the latest make-up product every YouTuber is raving about. I was one of those girl
that just needed to have what all these girls on YouTube had. Unfortunately, my parents didnt
have the type of money to splurge on expensive cosmetics. The beauty industry influence me in
good way, I could say. I started wearing make up at the age of 13 and I dont regret it. The
Beauty Industry's Influences young women in Society, some consequences are good and some
are bad.
The beauty industry is huge! Its something thats in different countries and cultures,
everyone has a different point of view of them. Many celebrities promote and support the beauty

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industry. I think its important to realize what these beauty industries are doing to young teenage
girls. I feel like these beauty industries can promote a certain way girls need to look like.
Everyone is different and is beautiful in their own way. The beauty industry can contribute to
society as a bully. A bully that is all over the worldwide web and in every billboard in your city.
They promote the latest hairstyle or latest make up look. A research done by Tan with The
Qualitative Report of 2014 showed that college girls who looked at models on magazines and
television desire to be thin. Other researches focused on television shows, they studied a group pf
college girls. The results showed that they desired what these television shows were advertising.
Even though this researched focused on the sexual concept and how this was a negative predictor
of the womens sexual self-concept. We can take this example that television does contribute in a
negative way to the way many young women want to look like and be like. These advertisements
and especially the social media contributes a lot to the marketing industry, influences many girls
to look a certain way.
Advertisement has become so easy in this century. The easiest way to get to people is
through social media. I myself follow many beauty blogs online and get inspired by them.
Theres millions of young girls out there that are not mature enough to understand that beauty
products should be used to enhance your beauty. Many young girls dont understand that
everyone has different bodies and are beautiful just the way they are. Yes, I do think the beauty
industry can give a negative influence on young girls who dont understand what beauty is. As an
adult or parents we should talk to the youth about the beauty industry. I have a 3 year old niece
that looks up to me. She sees me put on make-up and she wants to do the same. She is definitely
too young to wear any make-up right now. I dont see anything wrong with wearing make-up as
a young teenager but I dont want her to do it because she feels ugly. When she gets older I hope

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I can be a good role model for her and I will give her advice. I definitely dont think theres a
way of hiding young girls from the beauty industry because it everywhere. We need to learn and
teach girls to love that way they look and cosmetics are used to enhance our beauty.
Like I said before I was influence by the beauty industry because I started wearing makeup at a young age. I cant remember why I started wearing it, I guess because I saw all these girls
online doing it. At some point though, Ill say at 14 years old to 16 years old I started hating my
skin and I will not go out without any foundation on. I was young and didnt really understand
to love myself the way I was. As I got older and matured I understood that not everyone is the
same and I applied make up because I loved it not because I felt prettier. Now that Im 19 years I
have no problem having a naked face. I wear beauty cosmetics because I have a passion for it
and its what I love to do. This is a future career I hope to accomplish and I hope girls understand
that make-up is something you should wear to enhance our beauty.

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