The Reason for Beauty

Ever since the 1970s, the popularity of cosmetic surgery has risen as new innovations and advancements to cosmetic surgery arose. Because of the media, many people have become more self conscious about themselves and begin to worry more about their body and go through many difficulties in order to improve their physical appearances.

Most of teenagers are easily influenced by the media. They are also in a state of confusion and in order to be popular, they will do anything to look like a figure on TV. They are constantly exposed to the generic beauty that the media promotes and soon they begin to notice flaws that they might have and begin to worry.

Aside from the media, teenagers may also get influenced by their friends and maybe even their family. Friends and peers are often very critical about appearance. On the school yard, it is hard not to see a situation where one student calls another student ugly. Family is no exception on to the "reasons to get cosmetic surgery list." There have been many situations in which a middle-aged mother will encourage their daughters to have plastic surgery in order to accomplish the dreams that they themselves could not accomplish.

Confidence plays a very important role in the success of cosmetic surgery. The human body is naturally not perfect but there are few people who can come to term with this. The media and public has been constantly attacking everyone with the idea that beauty is everything. with phrases like "your lucky your pretty," one can only assume that beautiful people have a high standards in society and it is not rare how some people would take this phrase seriously and try to make it apply to them.

There is an old Chinese saying stating that “our bodies are gifts from out parents.” We should not change our body on a whim just because of others. People are very self conscious and will change their bodies by cosmetic surgery till they satisfied. Self confidence is not something that can be bought with money or received by changing a certain body part. Confidence stems from both mind and body. The lack of confidence is in the mind, it does not only concern physical appearances