According to Merriam Webster Dictionary beauty is “a combination of qualities such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses especially the sight”

 

Who are we to decide what makes someone beautiful and what makes them not? Today in society, many women are shamed for being a particular size, shape or color. Many of us are brainwashed by society and the media to believe that someone who is beautiful is skinny, tall, has big breast, has a narrow nose, etc. What society fails to notice is that many of us don’t fit that category because we are all built differently. Many girls and women have this misconception that beauty is defined by looking a certain way and try so desperately to appear that way. We are all victims of reading beauty magazines and asking ourselves why we can’t look a certain way. What we don’t understand is that many of these people have gone through many surgical treatments to represent to our society what the definition of beauty is. I believe that there is no exact definition of beauty because we are all beautiful in our own way, so why jumble us in this one category as so-called being “beautiful” by looking a certain way.

 

I’m guilty of looking at photos and wondering why I wasn’t blessed to look a certain way. I ask myself why my nose, body, eyes, skin isn’t a certain way. I tell myself that maybe if we all looked the same, then we wouldn’t have to compare ourselves to anyone or worry about anything. Then I stop and say to myself that if we all looked a certain way then what makes us different or unique or hardly beautiful. We all have certain things that distinguish us from each other, and that’s what makes each and every one of us so called “beautiful.”

 

One day I was driving to school and heard a song by Alessia Cara called “Scars To Your Beautiful”. In this song she discusses the problem we all go though in society as women trying to be beautiful. One of her lines says

“She just wants to be beautiful

She goes unnoticed, she knows no limits

She craves attention, she praises an image

She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor”

 

She is able to go deep into our thoughts. She expresses the doubts and pain we go through to be seen and feel beautiful. She also expresses the doubt we have by questioning the way we are created.

Another line she says is

 

“You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are

And you don’t have to change a thing, the world could change its heart

No scars to your beautiful, we’re stars and we’re beautiful”

 

She wants to send a message to all of us to accept ourselves because what society deems is real beauty is not right. She also sends a message to women and girls that instead of trying to change our perception of what beauty is, we should try and change what society perceives as beauty. We all possess beauty and shine in our own way, and that is what makes us beautiful.