The Ugly Truth About Beauty Analysis

The Ugly Truth about Beauty

I notice now that young ladies take hours to put on make up to wear just for a few hours. For example, my friend Gabby is always wearing make up every day to make her feel good about her appearance. Sometimes we have to pick her up before our friends and I have to head to the movies, we always have to wait outside for her so she can finish putting on her makeup which most of the time we end up being late for the movie. She wears eye liner, eye shadow, foundation, and mascara and even though she wears all this makeup she feels not good enough. In the “Ugly Truth about Beauty”, Dave Barry claims women have insecurities about the way they look and the mindset of being “not good enough” because of “psychological and societal reasons” such as Barbie, the “multibillion-dollar beauty industry” and supermodels. Although men have different perspective about this.

Most men think that they look good enough and worry about other things that are more important to them. According to Dave Berry, “Most men, I believe, think of themselves as average-looking.” Dave Barry states that the average man “stops thinking about his appearance and devotes his mind to more critical issues, such as the Super Bowl”. This is true because out of all honesty, men don't really care that much

about the way they look and instead worry about the matters at hand. Men don't care about the way they look because they don’t have the same social and psychological influences women do. Barry claims women growing up playing with dolls such as “Barbies” idolize them which make women feel low self-esteem, but men grow up playing with action figures that teach “self confidence.”
Most women grow up with the idea that they need to look like Barbie. Women look at Barbie like its the perfect way to look. I mean what girl wouldn't want to be seven feet tall and weigh 81 pounds. Dave Barry says “This is a difficult appearance standard to live up to”, which I would agree that doesn’t seem quite healthy. This is why women have such low self-esteem, the social and psychological reason to look like Barbie. Although women try their best to look like Barbie with the help of the “multibillion-dollar beauty industry that is devoted to convincing women that they must try.”
The multibillion-dollar beauty industry are convinced that women must try to look like barbie or even a super model like Cindy Crawford.

Dave Barry says, “I once saw an Oprah show wherein supermodel Cindy Crawford dispensed makeup tips to the studio audience”. With the help of Cindy Crawford and the makeup tips she gave to the studio audience, all the women knew how stressful it was to apply the makeup and that no matter how carefully they applied it, “they would never look remotely like Cindy Crawford”. They feel “not good enough.” Women are influenced to look as beautiful as possible because of the psychological and social reason to look like a supermodel such as Cindy

Crawford.
Overall, Dave Barry claims women have insecurities about the way they look and the mindset of being “not good enough” because of “psychological and societal reasons” such as Barbie, the “multibillion-dollar beauty industry” and supermodels. Even though, men think that no matter if they are the hunkiest or the ugliest guy, they still consider themselves average because they have different social standards. Women grow up playing with dolls like Barbie and idolize them which makes them feel low self esteem. Let’s not forget the “multibillion-dollar beauty industry” that is “devoted to convincing women that they must try” to live up to impossible standards, and this will always make women feel “not good enough.”