"You only buy shit, if you feel shit."
I like that line, it pretty much sums up the techniques used by advertisers in women's magazines. Adam Hills explains it perfectly. In order to sell beauty, advertisers must convince you that you are not and thus, need their product to make you beautiful. This has so many ramifications on the self esteem of so many young women and girls, faced with these images of "beauty". I sometimes am glad I'm not a girl for these reasons, and I bear so much respect for women because of this.
Furthermore, I was shown this video ages ago, and it was brought up in one of my journalism lectures, it links to what Hills was talking about when his friends photoshops the women on album covers.
I agree, "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted."
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