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                       Beauty Standards


Beauty standards are a topic of great complexity. This is due to various reasons such as cultural, social, historical, and individual factors. My first source talks about the impact of "digitally altered images of individuals' body satisfaction and beauty aspirations." This source looks at the impact of digitally altered images on one's body satisfaction and beauty aspirations. This source explains that great research shows that women high in social comparison were more likely to experience increased dissatisfaction when it comes to their image. Action being taken in both Israel and France to help combat this major issue in society throughout the world includes that it is a legal requirement to disclose when photographs of models have been digitally modified. These efforts serve as inspiration that hopefully society as a whole will start to 




Source 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061013/




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