Appearance is
really a simple thing. You dress the way you want because you think it looks good and yet I see these
girls in the hallways at school dressed like clones. One of the biggest influences on why girls
care so much is because it is expected of us because of the girls on the
television.
They all
have the same 3 shades of hair which are: dyed black, dyed brown, and dyed
blond. Not only are the colours all exactly the same bottle
shade, the style is always pin-straight, or has a slight wave to it. The cut is
always the same as well. Actually, the colour is one of the few ways I can figure out which girl is
which.
Speaking of
adding colour, the amount of make-up I see
girls wearing is atrocious. If you can hit a girl in the face, have her not
feel it, and have an explosion of powder, she is wearing too much make-up by my
standards. According to television, however, it is not. Actually, since they
continually promote girls looking like powdered clowns, they say it isn’t
enough. Everyday girls walk around with a face on that isn’t their own, so they
are always so self-conscious about taking it off in front of people. Frankly,
six layers of make-up is five too many.
So, as I
walk through the school hallways, and I see the girls with their masks of
make-up, and fake hair, I notice their clothing. That is, after I’m done
gawking at the circus-folk in my school. Their clothes never match exactly, but
they are all bought at the same places. Personally, I hate shopping at the same
places as my friends, because my style is mine, but they are fine walking
around, looking exactly the same as one another. Hollister and American eagle
seem to be the two most popular stores, which I have no idea why. All of the
clothing there looks exactly the same and all the clothing is a preposterous
amount, but maybe that is why the clones love it.
So here, we
find ourselves looking at their accessories; always bulky, usually shiny, and
usually very distracting. They buy them the same two places they buy everything
else they own. Where they find the money to do go shopping for all these things,
I have no idea, but they always have new things, and they always have that fake
red smile as they show it to the other clones, who gape at it appreciatively. The
accessory fanatics has gotten to the point where if I wear my tie, I get looked
at funny. A tie on a girl can be quite charming, yet they look at me as if I committed
the worst sin ever, which to them, I probably did.
Here we
are, at how they all act the same. No matter what happens, their reaction is
always simultaneous. If something bad happens, they get the Charlie Brown “O”
mouth, something good, they screech like owls, and something that makes the
crowd of them mad, they guffaw the same way. Their hand gestures match, and
their body language is easily read, and seen through.
So clearly,
the media has thrown itself out of control with its fixating people on what
they must wear, how they must look, what hair colour they should have, and how
they should act. All I have to say about it is be your own person, and stop
dressing a certain way just because your friends do.