The Powerful Message Of Beauty, By Colbie Caillat's 'Try'

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The song “Try,” sang and written by Colbie Caillat she’s sending a powerful message to women about today 's beauty standards.
Her video is an incredible transformation from start to finish. I personally think they look beautiful throughout and even more so at the end. “Put your make-up on, get your nails done. Curl your hair, run the extra mile. Keep it Slim, so they like you, do they like you?” Get yourself ready, by putting makeup on, getting your nails done. Exercise; keep yourself fit so you can be skinny so they can like you, but do you like yourself? Do you have to do all this so someone can like you?
“Get your sexy on, don 't be shy, girl.” Be sexy don’t care what people say. “Take it off.” Take of your cloth and show what you …show more content…

Buy all the expensive brands. “You don 't have to choose, buy it all, so they like you” Buy everything you can, don’t even choose just spend like if you would never go shopping again. “Do they like you?” Do you think by shopping the most expensive stuff? By buying everything you can do you like you? Are you yourself? Do you feel comfortable? I this the type of person who you are?
“Wait a second, why, should you care, what they think of you.
When you 're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you?” This line is saying are you like this when you are alone. Do you feel like you are the same person when you are alone, and when you are around company? Do you like to be like that? Do you feel comfortable?
“Take your make-up off. Let your hair down. Take a breath.” Take off everything you don need. Be you, be natural. “Look into the mirror, at yourself.” Look at yourself, your beautiful without all the makeup. Is that the person you want to be? Or do you want to be the person that the people want you to be? “Don 't you like you? 'Cause I like you.” You don’t you like yourself, because I like you. Just the way you …show more content…

Also us as humans are willing to change just fill in with a group of people and how they do anything for people can like them. Some people change their whole appearance. Like they change the color of their hair. How they dress, or some people even change their roots. In the video Colbie and other women of multiple ages, races and body types are demonstrating by singing the song. At first they have makeup on, but as the lyrics progress, they can be seen removing the makeup from their faces. Also one woman removes a wig to revel a bland head and Colbie removes her extensions and her fake eyelashes. Colbie Caillat parents are hippies, and her mother doesn’t like wearing makeup and she also hates doing her hair. Her grandmother is also more

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