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The Modern Beauty
Movement vs. Our

Minds

Societal beauty standards have worsened overtime due to the evolution
of beauty practices from makeup to plastic surgery to photo editing apps.
The beauty industry has grown overtime due to social changes and
movements, and advancements in cosmetology and technology. Parts of the
beauty industry and its industry and its presence in today’s media has paved
the way for unhealthier mental health and societal norms.

Today where most of the youth is affected or influenced by social media and technology, different
industries have used them to grow. More specifically, the beauty industry has significantly grown due to
media, reaching a mass amount of audiences no matter
the age or gender.

The beauty industry has increasing success due to
platforms like Instagram and YouTube. What makes this
growth so significant is the media culture that has grown
around it. Not only have are cosmetic brands being
advertised more, but new beauty devices like photo
editing apps, have taken a life of their own while effecting
their users more negatively than positively.

The negative aspects of beauty Social media and photo editing has become a big part of the
standards in the beauty industry beauty industry today. Controversy surrounds these apps as
today lends itself to today’s they’ve forged a new artform while still having negative
emphasis on social media. effects on the mentality of today’s youth even if they haven’t

explicitly proven to be as negative. What makes these new tools of beauty more dangerous is the way

public figures use and promote them projecting either positive or negative body image ideas onto their

audiences.

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As the beauty industry has advanced overtime there
has been positive change, but the change of beauty
practices and the association of them with different
classes and ages has changed its effects on society.

If we look at beauty practices and standards from their beginning, their patterns leading up to today are
understandable, but the way their targeted group has changed alone or along with society is interesting.

As society continues this emphasis on
beauty, newer technology may be
invented without the awareness of
what these standards have become in
and out of social media.

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