Believing In Your Own Beauty

The campaign is a world effort by the soap manufacturer at widening the definition of beauty and declaring every girl's innate capability to be beautiful.

I am not stunned that the Dove industrial has won the world's most prestigious advertising award --- the Grand Prix for viral selling at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

The video, if you have got watched it, shows a shut-of a seemingly unattractive lady, shot in harsh lights that decision attention to her uneven skin tone, lopsided eyes, uninteresting, listless hair; and not to forget, sad facial expression.

Then in exactly twenty seconds, as the video rolls, makeup artists and hair stylists turn her into a large-eyed, big-haired beauty with sculpted cheeks and excellent skin. And, that is just the beginning!

Next comes the digital transformation. A designer points-and-clicks on the model's photo, giving her a extended, slimmer neck, a rather narrower higher face, fuller lips, bigger eyes, and additional space between her eyebrows and eyes. The perfected image rises to fill a billboard and therefore the punch line reads: "No marvel our perception of beauty is distorted."

The video, I am told, attracted over 3 million reviews on YouTube.

Will this convey that like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair? Everybody falls wanting perfection, but some are luckier than others? No, as a result of, "real confidence" (and personally, real beauty) writes magazine editor Virginia Postrel in The Truth Concerning Beauty within the Atlantic Monthly, March, 2007, needs self-data, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings furthermore one's strengths.

"How wrong it is for a lady to expect the person to build the globe she wants, instead of to make it herself," said Anais Nin, who added that "Life is actually known only to those who are suffering, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

Author of French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano remembers in an interview to Ellen Kanner, "I was anticipating a flight in Chicago's O'Hare, where everybody was busy multitasking --- walking, speaking into their cell phones, bunching over laptops, all the while cramming airport faux food into their mouths --- and no one looked happy!" This stunned the celebrated author as a result of what she had been taught in her culture is that when you eat that quick, you cannot derive full pleasure out of what you're eating. Food, in that case, is not food for your soul; it's simply fuel for your body and that is not the manner the French relish their food and everything else in life. My belief is that French women see beauty as an inner perception outwardly manifested in our attitudes.

Therefore, acknowledge that only you'll be able to produce your own world - by simply believing in your own beauty!