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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

What is Beauty?

Have you seen the latest ad of Dove on introducing their dove self esteem fund? I find the fund very interesting and unique. In the ad, it shows pictures of young girls being unhappy with their appearance....as they are constrained by the definition of beauty commonly protrayed in TV and movies...

"Too many girls develop low self-esteem from hang-ups about looks and, consequently, fail to reach their full potential in later life. So, Dove created the Dove Self-Esteem Fund as an agent of change to educate and inspire girls on a wider definition of beauty."~ This is the aim of the dove self-esteem fund.

This is indeed true. Many many girls out there, think that there's always something wrong with their appearance, be it their height, weight, their pimples, their single eye-lids......

They carried a study "Real Truth About Asian Beauty" and only 3% of Singaporean women describe themselves as beautiful!

Also, for Singapore women, it has been a long time since they felt or were told they were beautiful. The average response from Singapore was that it had been 95 days since they had been told they were beautiful—second only to Japan at 103 days on average. Half the Singaporean women (49%) said it had been since last year or longer that they had felt beautiful.

Haiz, the results seem so sad, don't they? Women are always troubled over the definition of beauty...So what is true beauty?

"Beauty is confidence. It is plain, simple and natural." ~Jane Middleson

"Beauty for me is self-acceptance. You should be happy of who you are." ~Lauren Mayfair

dreaming @ 10:23 PM

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