As I was sitting in my room with my laptop mini on my desk I pondered on what to write tonight for my weekly blog post. I remembered that I needed to whiten my teeth this week, so i went to my closet and found my bleach trays in my vanity drawers, I then put the whitening paste in the trays and put the foul tasting, gag worthy bleach in my mouth. I began to wonder why anyone would do this-why would i do this? It seems to me that beauty (or societies opinion. Society today paints a distinct picture of beauty, girls today have the media to look to for an example of what they themselves should look like. We model ourselves after these fashion icons, whose pictures are edited and airbrushed until the point they no longer look like people but more or less look like mannequins. Women go to ridiculous measures to mimic the looks of girls on the cover of the magazines, unaware that these girls are almost completely FAKE! Girls starve themselves, spend outrageous amounts of money, and even do things that may potentially harm them in striving to reach the same level of beauty that these photoshopped women have. It may seem worth the pain money and emotional trauma to “fix” ourselves to look like the fashion icons, but it isn’t! From this point on I will refuse to let myself fall into the pit of finding fake beauty, starting with taking out these bleach trays!
I look in the mirror, My gums are now raw and a deep shade of red, almost bleeding, but my teeth are not quite the glowing white that I was hoping for. I place the trays back on my teeth, the taste making me gag. I need to look nice for school tomorrow I think, someone else can care some other time, but as me, I sure will have some pretty, pearly whites!
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