The Ugly Truth

The Ugly Truth 

In response to “The Ugly Truth about Beauty”, an essay by author and comedian Dave Barry, I have to say that I concur wholeheartedly on almost all of his points. As a man, I cannot say I don’t appreciate the lengths women go to in the pursuit of beauty; nor can anybody else, really, without sounding disrespectful or unappreciative of the effort they put forth. Being attractive, is, well, attractive. However, I feel as if in a majority of cases, women can become less concerned with the original purposes of beauty products and more concerned with the opinions  of other women on whether they made themselves look sufficiently better, or did it so poorly that they actually looked worse. Because of this, the entire concept just deteriorates into some sort of silly contest between women as to who wore it better. They honestly become their own worst enemy due to too much introspection (something that we as teens know quite a bit about). The entire point of the items are to enhance beauty, yet people skew the concept to the point where the actual effect garnered is quite contrary. For example, around the time of school dances, women go out and spend preposterous amounts of resources on how they look, to the point where most people would truly prefer standard makeup. Aside from that point, I feel like Dave Berry hit the nail on the head with his satirical viewpoint on beauty, and I commend him for that. Also, spray tans are the worst.

-Brandon Smith

9/24/15