What Is True Beauty?

In our youth and beauty culture, every time we open a magazine, turn on the TV, or drive past a billboard, we see how far our true beauty is from the standard perpetuated by the media. Our beauty is defined by how we look instead of who we are. I believe that true beauty should be define by who we are. I decided to conduct a research project on Women’s Beauty. I wanted to see how much we time and money is spent on make-up and how women define true beauty.

I wanted to know how other women felt towards their own beauty. The only way to get this information is conducting survey. I conducted a survey for my first genre. It consisted of 10 questions involving their thoughts and opinions on inner and outer beauty. For my inner beauty questions,

Majority of my responders were Asians and between the age of 20-25. Personality made the top list of characteristics that makes a woman beautiful. Almost every responder who took the survey listed personality. Self-confidence, positivity, and kindness were some other characteristics. Most of these women believe that a woman’s beauty is more than just her appearance and looks. More than half of these women put on make-up daily and spends about 25-40 minutes every morning on their appearance. Majority of them spends about $30-60 dollars on make-up every month while the others spend between $10-30 a month. 2 women believe outer beauty is more important, 3 believe both are, and 20 of them believe inner beauty is more important. I incorporated the color pink for my border line and a small image to brighten up my

I choose a collage as my 3rd genre to visually show my audience what true beauty is. I wanted to influence younger girls and show everyone that there is more important characteristic to a women’s beauty than just their appearance. I based my collage off from the 1st genre which was the survey. I gathered photos from the internet but mostly from magazines that I had at home. Self-confidence was one of the top characteristic listed on my survey that makes a woman truly beautiful. I found a beautiful picture of a women who is positive, happy, and sure show that she is confident in her own skin I placed that image in the middle of my collage. The images of the faces placed around the center image portrays all the beautiful woman of all races. I just didn’t want to focus on one race because every woman no matter what ethnicity they are, is beautiful. I incorporated some words and phrases in my collage as well. Including some phrases will help my audience see what really makes a woman beautiful. I included photos of family, commitment, personality, positive thinking, goals, education, and of course, make-up. Make-up products was the last thing photos I put surrounding my center image since the importance of inner beauty comes before outer beauty. I really enjoyed this genre because it visually helps get my message out. I really had fun creating this collage. It’s colorful and pretty. You can tell what my message is by just looking at all the