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Essay / Destruction - 745
Today, society is controlled by the media and by all individuals influenced by society's manipulative methods. There are many popular advertisements that impact the lives of others. Most advertisements can be found on the Internet, in magazines or even in newspapers. One of the most effective advertisements in today's society is beauty advertising. Girls, boys, women and men are often faced with the question of how to look better in order to fit into a society controlled by bad things. The media and many advertisements influence, or at least attempt to influence, viewers and listeners. . Beauty advertisements particularly use skinny models with long hair, beautiful soft and smooth skin with beautiful eye color texture that complements the product being advertised. People who work in advertising use beautiful models for makeup, clothing, and to represent what a young woman or man should be or look like. Beauty ads often target young girls, making them insecure and feeling worthless in their own skin even though they are fine just the way they are. Advertisers talk very highly about the product they are selling and have a model present for the advert in order to attract other young women who think that wearing makeup and having a nice wardrobe will make them beautiful and look to presenters or models. on television. While watching my local TV channels, I noticed why most beauty advertisements target young people because it's easier. A young girl seeing mascara or eyeliner on a model on TV would probably want to become that model and would be the one to buy the advertised product due to that person's young age and the fact that that p.... .. middle of paper......style to feel like others like I'm worth something. As I got older, I quickly realized that “living in someone else’s shadow will prevent me from knowing myself.” I realized that being myself and wearing what I like makes me even more beautiful. Advertisements on television are not what they seem in reality. I began to understand that advertisements, whatever they are, are just advertisements. Which are made to attract people who are only influenced by the effect of advertisements and who are controlled by society. I appreciate and accept some beauty advertisements, but in today's society any form of advertising leaves one feeling insecure, guilty, happy and questioning many products that are advertised only for control us, as individuals, if we continue to let them control us. . Instead, realize that the things we get used to on TV are just commercials..