Model Behavior

Since when was the knock-off brand as good as the original? Since when was real gold more precious than fool’s? You'd think me daft to trade all my currency for counterfeit, even if the counterfeit was without wrinkle or tear. Yet, somehow this message of fake-worth has been bought and sold one hundred times over in the beauty industry: you are only as good as you look—in the mirror, in the dress, in the picture, etc. We spend insane amounts of money clamoring after an ideal that is impossible; a beauty that is baloney. Why? Well, that's a question and a half to answer, let alone ask. For one: culture. Why wouldn’t we strive to be beyond beautiful when that’s what we’re exposed to from birth? 


“It would be great to be a model,” I remember daydreaming as a girl, “they are so pretty!” I believed then what many women—old and young alike—currently believe: beauty = happiness, etc. 


When it comes to real, genuine beauty—that which comes from ACTIONS rather than APPEARANCES—culture isn’t cutting it. Recently, the fashion couture store H&M received criticism for using computerized bodies to model clothing on their website. According to TIME magazine, “H&M defended their technique by explaining that they designed a body that can better display clothes made for humans than can humans, similar to mannequins in department stores. They then “dress” the forms and digitally paste on the heads of real-life women.” Unfortunately, too many real-life women are attempting to do the same: to put their own face on a body no human (let alone woman) possesses. 





Don’t be pasty, be genuine. A smile, unlike a certain color or size, is fashionable all year round and looks good on every body type. Don’t be pasty, be positive. Love your own body, and respect those around you. Don’t be pasty, be beautiful. 


Want to read more about H&M’s model scandal? See the full article in TIME magazine