How Does False Advertising Affect A Woman's True Beauty?

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A magazine takes away from a woman's true beauty, which can make a woman insecure about herself and body. Magazine corporations should have no right to photoshop a woman’s picture at all. Photoshopping a photo can lead to many problems and breakdowns. Why wouldn’t you want to show the beauty of a woman that is all natural? Magazines should never alter a woman's image because it is false advertisement, can affect self-esteem, and it also promotes unattainable beauty. False advertisement is all over the place but most of all it's everywhere in magazines. When you are looking into a magazine to buy a certain product, you want to know what the product really does look like on a person. Women are always trying to find a product better than what she has, so when she doesn’t get the same results as the women in the magazine, she begins to get jealous. Sales are making an increase but the quantity of the products they are trying to sale is decreasing as we know it. If the woman is not what you want then find another women, don’t photoshop their picture and make them feel like she is not good enough. Self- esteem is decreasing in women everyday and not everyone is realizing it. Magazines editors has women thinking these models are skinny and has a perfect body but in reality they look nothing like their picture. Women that are depressed …show more content…
Magazine editors has society believing unless your ribs and bones are showing then your not beautiful. A perfect body is impossible to maintain and no women should be bringing herself down because of a stranger on paper. Women usually beings to give up on herself and body when they figure out that no matter what they do, they will never look like them models. Models can even maintain a perfect body but the editors photoshop's so much of their pictures that they have people believing anything that is put into them

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