Girls have been told that beauty is of great importance. In today’s era, being skinny with expensive clothes seems to be the focus of an average girl. She tries her hardest to become the person she thinks everyone wants her to be, eternally convinced she is never pretty enough. A girl’s view of herself has become impaired because it seems she has to compare herself with the people defined as attractive. But the definition of beauty and perfection changes as fast as girls can achieve it.

As fashion evolves with generations, the people bring with them a ‘new and improved’ definition of what they consider captivating. What was popular in the past is passe and old-fashioned today, which suggests that women have always been pressured to wear what is fashionably accurate and conform with the people around them.

Today, girls are being constantly told that something else is wrong with the way they look and so they will buy expensive products, attempting to get rid of whatever their problem may be. When driving down the street, a girl may see any number of advertisements that support perfection. When turning on the Television to watch her favorite show, she watches the hair-care and make up commercials and sees all the things that she needs to change by comparing herself with the flawless people she sees. Girls take what they see advertised or hear from their peers and see themselves as not good enough. Their feeling of self worth is injured by the utopia created around them.

The truth is that people demand perfection. Because people don’t want to watch something with an unattractive actor or actress, the casters involved with any kind of media production choose prepossessing men and women to star in their movie, commercial or Television show. Once they are cast, the actors are then taken to a person who does their make up to make them seem more handsome then they were originally. The Princess Diaries, What a Girl Wants and Penelope are examples of movies that try to support the idea that “beauty is within” and “you are beautiful the way you are”. However, the message was lost in the extravagant house, the ideal hair, or the attractive guy that the heroine had in the end. Girls may walk away wanting one thing or another that the heroine had in the movie.

More effort is made to promote physical charm and there is little effort to promote beauty from within. Worldwide, girls are criticizing others to make their seemingly ‘lack of excellence’ less paramount, or dominant. Girls are losing their independence because they are conforming to what their peers consider to be appropriate and what is advertised to them. They spend all their time wanting the radiance that they see on Television but don’t genuinely realize all the alterations that have been made to make those people look ideal. They commit all their focus on trying to be ravishing, trying to fit in, trying to be the person that their peers want to spend time with, losing the person that they are in the process.

Putting on make up and getting all dressed up is not entirely bad, but when her looks becomes the focus of a girl’s life, she is always looking at others and comparing herself with the glamor she sees. By trying to be someone she is not because she is trying to conform with the people around her, she forgets who she is.

Perfection is only perfect today and then tomorrow comes and it is out of vogue. By making beauty a great deal more significant than it should be, girls have convinced themselves that physical excellence is what is most important. It’s time that girls realize that charm is not in the clothes or the make up they wear, or the way that their hair falls on their shoulders. Loveliness is the person that is beneath the pimples. Glory is better than the way it is defined by people around them. It’s time girls remembered that beauty is not perfection, but what they make of it.