![Picture](/uploads/2/4/2/5/24251053/4301375.png?212)
The company Dove has a strong opinion about beauty and women feeling beautiful. They feel so strongly they have created movements to try and get women to stop focusing on their flaws and to stop trying to cover up and hide behind cosmetics and to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. One of the movements, The "Real Truth About Beauty" focused on women of all ages in Canada. They found that by the age of 14 "more than half (55%) of Canadian girls already feel pressure to be beautiful. By the time they are 29, this number increases to 96%. After the age of 14 girls increasingly become their own worst beauty critic. While only 10% of girls 10-14 put pressure on themselves to be beautiful, this number climbs to 59% of women 18-64" (Dove). That increase in the pressure to feel beautiful is drastic from the ages of 14 to 29 going from 55% to 96%. It is evident that as women age, whether it be from childhood to adolescence or teenage to adulthood, there is an increasing pressure to be beautiful and the pressure they put on themselves increases as well. If you go to www.dove.ca/en/Article/Surprising-Self-Esteem-Statistics.aspx you can read more about this movement.
Photo and information from: Dove. "New Research Finds a Girl's Inner Beauty Critic Moves in by Age 14." Surprising Self-Esteem Statistics. Unilever, 23 Mar. 2011. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.
Photo and information from: Dove. "New Research Finds a Girl's Inner Beauty Critic Moves in by Age 14." Surprising Self-Esteem Statistics. Unilever, 23 Mar. 2011. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.
![Picture](/uploads/2/4/2/5/24251053/2369484.png?1397928957)
If you look at this "Foundation of Female Millennials' Makeup Habits" you will see some ever interesting statistics. Focusing on the first row, 61% begin wearing make-up between the ages of 13-15. There is no coincidence that that is the beginning of a girls teenage years and the time in which she is becoming her own person. The next alarming statistic present on this chart is the "looking below the surface" section. 84% of women wear make-up to hide their flaws. Hiding your flaws is something that has become the norm in today's society if you want to try and feel beautiful which is not the case. Everyone will have flaws because no one is prefect but that doesn't mean you're not beautiful. Take some time to look at this chart and read some of these statistics and see if you fall into any of them.
Photo from: Andrea. "The Makeup Of Millennial's' Beauty Routine." Web log post.Market Research. Lab42, 16 May 2013. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.
Photo from: Andrea. "The Makeup Of Millennial's' Beauty Routine." Web log post.Market Research. Lab42, 16 May 2013. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.
![Picture](/uploads/2/4/2/5/24251053/1397930561.jpg)
If you take the time to look at this example, the the left it shows the height and weight of both the average American Woman and the average American Model. Both height and weight are pretty different leading to the models being thinner than 98% of American women. This leads to those coming into womanhood, teenagers to feel like they need to change how they look to match that of the average model. This leads to dieting and in extreme cases which involves about 3% of teenagers trying to change their weight end up having eating disorders as they try to loose weight that they naturally gain as their bodies are growing.
Photo from: Teen-Beauty-Tips. "Body Image Statistics." Find Your True Beauty.. In Christ. SBI, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
Photo from: Teen-Beauty-Tips. "Body Image Statistics." Find Your True Beauty.. In Christ. SBI, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.