Women everywhere share one common concern. That one concern is beauty. Looking beautiful is the bond that unite women and is a priority because it affect not only how you feel about yourself but how others look at you. I remember once reading an article on a magazine and how it portrayed feminine beauty. As a young black girl growing up in South Africa I ended up aspiring to a different version of beauty and misunderstood my own beauty. When I got older I began to understand my own beauty as I started seeing more faces like myself in magazines. And other versions of beauty. I started to understand that a lot of these magazines were focusing on beauty from the neck up and not as a whole. One of the beauty lessons I want to teach my daughter is to see her beauty as a whole being, her shape and kinky hair. I do not want her to fall under the stereotype of having to straighten her hair and have a a face full of make up just to go around the corner shop, because her appearance is not classified as “classic beauty”. It took me getting into adulthood to learn to accept the fact that I’m my own kind of beauty and finally stop believing in the propagated beauty that is portrayed in magazines. I am going to teach her not to believe in the hidden messages in glossy magazines that tell us how an “ideal” woman should look like but instead, I will try my best to boost her confidence, self- esteem and accept accept her version of beauty. Today we are seeing daily how the idea of beauty is shifting. It is more inclusive that ever and that is a good thing. And seeing articles like the one I read few days ago here https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/02/beauty-today-celebrates-all-social-media-plays-a-role-feature/ and I urge you to read it too. Just like the phrase that say ‘ charity begins at home’ I truly believe that if I teach my daughter how to define her own beauty she won’t need the world to define it for her.
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