Impact+of+Natural+Beauty

Abstract: My goal is to make girls and women aware of their natural beauty and see how it affects them, as I revealed in the piece below. I have already shared this with many girls and I would like to spread it even farther. For my research project, I am going to set a date in either April or May where ladies everywhere can participate by going completely natural (no makeup) for a day. I will be posting an "event" on facebook and sharing it with as many people as possible, not to mention I can put up posters with the date and information to get even more girls involved. By doing this, I can get feedback from them and see the effects of changing the mindset our society has so long been drilling into our brains. Too many girls and women are being strongly affected by the fact that they don't believe they're beautiful enough, but I want to change that and provoke girls to start believing that it's not about your looks, but rather who you are. Looks may fade and change, but who you are lasts.

Summarized Plan: - Set a date for the day. - Create an event on Facebook and set up signs. - Spread the piece that I wrote as the motivation for girls to participate. - See how many girls I can impact and get to take part in it.

"Real Beauty" Most would call the woman on the magazine "beautiful", the model on the catwalk "flawless", or the Hollywood actress "stunning, but are they really the definition of beauty? It seems that the lifelong dream of every teenage girl is to look like //her//; the girl every guy wants. We spend countless hours in front of the mirror with relentless thoughts of why our face can't be as flawless as //hers//, why our body can't be as ideal as //her//s; the list carries on. Our mind has been contaminated to believe that "beauty" is merely superficial. The media, society, music, and television have created an unrealistic concept of what beautiful should be. Beauty isn't only found in looks, it is much more. Any girl can be gorgeous on the surface, but it takes a truly beautiful woman to be gorgeous on the inside. Why should we waste our whole life trying to attain what we think //beautiful// is when we can have it anytime we decide to? You reach a point in your life when you grasp that being beautiful, isn't really about how you look, but rather a choice. It's about deciding to be beautiful on the inside and letting the distorted concept of what we //think// beauty is, fade away.