As noughties women, were meant to cannonball our way through our twenties, notching up benchmarks - a career, a relationship, a healthy fab looking body. We become convinced that who we are isn't good enough. It's affecting more and more twenty-something women and when they don't achieve everything, they blame themselves for ‘failing'. This can develop into obsessive thoughts that are linked to bettering themselves.
The media is full of propaganda that can put a lot of pressure on young women to have beautiful skin, a skinny body, and perfect hair. If we don't have any of these, we tell ourselves were not good enough. So why is it more likely to affect you than your boyfriend? Because at the heart of it is our very-female, 21st century battle for perfection.
What is today's idea of perfection anyway? It is actually having a great body or any of those things that affect our outer appearances? Or, is it the perfect lifestyle, money, loads of friends, great career? How's a girl to relax when she can't stop thinking and worrying about things that don't really even matter? Personally, I'm sick of it.
I always seem to be on a quest for perfection myself. Luckily I was born with great teeth and hair, but I'm never satisfied with my skin or my body. I've been through hundreds of products when it comes to skincare. Luckily, I have found a couple of products which I could never live without...IL let you in on them in another article. However, even though I have found great products, I exercise and diet and I still don't look like the girls in the magazines. I think I'm starting to realize that nobody is perfect, and that nobody could ever look like the girls in magazines without some sort of help.
I guess it's a vicious cycle, and that's probably why a lot of businesses do well. Until we all learn to accept ourselves as we are never going to become perfection.
