Who is Beautiful and Why?

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Perriann Rodriguez

Perriann Rodriguez is the founder of Hair Resources, Hairstyles gallery and Hair extensions , online resources for hundreds of hair styles, hair extensions info, beauty,

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People are outraged when they see discrimination based on looks. Yet the world of celebrities is driving our society to embellish looks and appearances.

We tend to see people who are tan as healthy, sexy, rich (they can afford to go on vacations and get a tan, or they can afford tanning booths or creams)

We see celebrities with long, beautiful hair as icons, beautiful and extremely glamorous.

We also see long eyelashes, long nails as sexy, glamorous things.

Celebrity driven beauty

My daughter asked me once several years ago why I wore makeup. I didn't really have an anwer to that one. Why do women wear make-up? It is a pure social issue. But why do we associate makeup, hair extensions, long eyelashes, long nails, tan skin, etc. with beauty?

We are bombarded everywhere with these unrealistic views of how men and women should look and act. Magazines line the aisle when you buy groceries, news programs cover every fascinating detail of celebrity life, online websites detail every beauty treatment, surgery or improvement that you can possibly make to your body.

And it doesn't just apply to adults. Recently, Kate Moss allowed her 4-year-old daughter Lila Grace to get hair extensions. Hair Extensions involved attaching human or synthetic extensions to your natural hair for a free-flowing natural look. They are quite expensive and require special daily maintenance that I'm quite sure a 4-year-old will not be able to do on her own.

Now little girls everywhere are going to be telling their mom's --look that girl can get hair extensions, why can't I?

So, what is your response to this? What are your definitions of beauty? Leave your comments below.