I strongly believe that the Tyra Banks show is truly inspirational. More people should watch it, record it, and then watch it, and save copies and show other people the social experiments she conducts on her show.
On today's show Tyra had a group of girls who are attached to things that they believe make them beautiful, their crutches. Without their weaves, makeup, and their tanning, the girls believed they were extremely ugly without them. Tyra had all of the girls agree to remove the things they believed made them beautiful, that they wouldn't leave the house without. Then she had them stand in a shopping mall window infront of the public, while her team recorded the reactions by random people on the street who observed the girls in the window. The girls couldn't hear anything, they could only watch the people observing them.
The people on the street would point, stare, and gesture towards the girls or about the girls features, and each one of the girls assumed it was because they were being ridiculed. One girl even broke down and ran out of the window frantically crying. She felt so ugly, and thought everyone saw the uglyless she believed she was without concealer and foundation.
After Tyra's social experiment, the girls were in utter shock and disbelief when they got to listen and watch the actual reactions of the crowd of people on the street. Everything was positive. Some of the girls were still in denial afterwards, but they have likely learned something very positive. That they should be embracing and celebrating their "flaws, " just as everyone else on this planet should. It's those "flaws" that make us all unique.
Weaves, makeup, tanning, etc. it's all things that people use to enhance their beauty, but as Tyra said, they should never be crutches - must haves. They should never be things you rely on each and every day, every hour, always.
Everyone is beautiful in their own right -- this I have ALWAYS believed. The sooner one realizes this about themselves, the sooner others will realize it to.
Outer/visual beauty only lasts for so long, it's inner beauty that radiates and attracts others to you. It's inner beauty that leaves the longest lasting impression, not outer beauty.
I still have my weak moments where I feel like I need a wig to cover the mess of colour that my hair becomes between dying phases. I started religiously dying my own hair when I first saw grey at about age nineteen or twenty. I had so much stress in my life then, my hair started to show it. Also, when my naturally auburn hair started turning darker and darker, like a brasy discoloured brown-black, but not really either, I swore I'd keep dying my hair. I get absolutely sick of people telling me to grow it out, and to allow my hair to be it's natural colour, which is no longer the auburn I was born with, but this brasy-fugly brown/black that I can't stand. Also, if I let it grow out the grey will start showing again, and I'm not ready for that. So for now, dying my hair is almost a crutch for me. I don't do it every day, every hour, etc. But I do every few months, if I feel I absolutely must. There's no bleaching or hair colour stripping involved, so it's hopefully not so bad.
It's taken me years to leave behind the face paint, the eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, lipgloss, lip liner, foundation, etc. that I believed I needed to wear in order to enhance the outer beauty that I thought nobody else really saw, but I can now leave the house without foundation and concealer occasionally. I know the plain jane behind the makeup is pretty too.
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