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Today, society is controlled among the media, and every individual who's influenced by society's manipulating ways. There are many popular advertisments that impact the lives of others. Most advertising can be found on the internet, magazines, or even in newspapers. One of the most effective advertisments in today's society is beauty advertisments. Girls, boys, women, and men are often faced with the fact of how to look better in order to fit into a society that is controlled by the wrong things.

The media and many advertisments influence, or at least try to influence viewers and listeners. Beauty advertisments particulary uses skinny, long-haired models, with beautiful soft, and smooth skin with a beautiful eye color texture that complements the product being advertised. The people who work in the field of advertising use beautiful models for make-up, clothing, and for a representation of what an individual young lady, or man should be, or look like. Beauty advertisments often target young girls, making them insecure and feel worthless about themselves when their fine just the way they are. Advertisers make it very broad about the product that they're selling, and having a model present for the advertisment to attract other young ladies who feel that wearing make-up and beautiful wardrobe will make them beautiful, and look like the presenters, or models on television.

When watching my local television channels I observed why most beauty advertisments target younger individuals because it's eaiser. A young girl seeing mascara, or eye liner on a model on t.v would likely want to become that model and would be the one buying the product being advertised because of that individuals young age, and due to the fact that this p...

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... style to feel like other's like I was worth something. I soon realized as I got older that "living through, somebody else's shadow will keep me from knowing myself,". I realized that being myself and wearing what I like makes me even more beautiful. The advertisments on t.v are not the way they seem in reality.

I began to see that advertisments of any sort are just advertisements. Which are made to attract people who only let the effect of advertisments, and society control them. I enjoy and accept some beauty advertisments, but in today's society any form of an advertisment leaves a sense of insecurites, guilt, happiness, and questions about many products that are advertised only to control us, as individuals if we continue to let it control us. Instead, coming to the realization that the things we become accustomed to on television are just advertisments.

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