Men’s Self Image: How to Project Confidence by Understanding Your Personal Brand
21st August 2012Books about Beauty – Girls and Self Image
What beauty books are on my Kindle? On my tube travels across London I read voraciously. Highly recommend you read Loving “Cinderella Ate My Daughter” by Peggy Orenstein.
Reading Orenstien’s assessment of girls hijacked by Disney princess fantasies, I’m somewhat relieved I have sons instead of daughters…
Of course, being a girly girl and style consultant, when I found out that each of my boys was, indeed, male, I was shattered. With each pregnancy I had visions of pink pink pink, hair ribbons, Barbie dolls, Mary Jane shoes with white socks, and the whole deal.
Personal perceptions of beauty
Reading the book also makes me flashback to how I’ve formed my own perception of beauty. We are conditioned from a young age to conform to everyone else’s ideas of how we should look.
I remember at age six deciding that boys liked curly hair (as opposed to my ultra-fine, stick-straight hair!) and so experimented pin curls to achieve ‘the look’.
Of course, the result was a disaster and I was convinced everyone was laughing at me. Even now, I feel the embarrassment for trying something different – when of course, it’s unlikely a single adult human even noticed!
Coni’s Personal Image Consultation Homework:
What episodes about your appearance and beauty make you cringe when you look back on them? How do you think that experience defined your self image? How does it make you feel now?
Reading Orenstien’s assessment of girls hijacked by Disney princess fantasies, I’m somewhat relieved I have sons instead of daughters…
Of course, being a girly girl and style consultant, when I found out that each of my boys was, indeed, male, I was shattered. With each pregnancy I had visions of pink pink pink, hair ribbons, Barbie dolls, Mary Jane shoes with white socks, and the whole deal.
Personal perceptions of beauty
Reading the book also makes me flashback to how I’ve formed my own perception of beauty. We are conditioned from a young age to conform to everyone else’s ideas of how we should look.
I remember at age six deciding that boys liked curly hair (as opposed to my ultra-fine, stick-straight hair!) and so experimented pin curls to achieve ‘the look’.
Of course, the result was a disaster and I was convinced everyone was laughing at me. Even now, I feel the embarrassment for trying something different – when of course, it’s unlikely a single adult human even noticed!
Coni’s Personal Image Consultation Homework:
What episodes about your appearance and beauty make you cringe when you look back on them? How do you think that experience defined your self image? How does it make you feel now?
