By MAMAMIA TEAM
Remember when you were a kid, and took every opportunity to twirl around, giggling in front of a camera? Or were totally unselfconscious and didn’t think twice if someone tried to take a photo of you with ice-cream all over your face?
Kids seem to have a natural ability to just not care what they look like. When do we lose that ability?
Dove have continued their Real Beauty campaign, with another viral video designed to encourage women to realise how beautiful they are.
Dove’s latest video ‘Camera Shy’ asks why women seem to hate being photographed as they get older — and recently won a Cannes Gold Lion Film Award at the film festival this year. It has 2.5 million views already, so it’s clearly striking a chord with viewers.
And if you needed a reminder of why women’s perceptions of beauty are so often skewed (hint: unrealistic representations of beauty in the media play a big part), then click through this gallery of photoshop fails.
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Young, 7ish
once your own father calls you ugly there is no going back to feeling beautiful
I never thought I was beautiful. I didn't really think about how I looked. It was a non-issue. In Year 8, a boy told me I was the 'pretty' one and my friend was the 'nice' one. I don't think he meant it as a compliment. I remember wearing a bikini - the only one I've ever worn - and thinking I looked good. At the start of Year 9, one of my friends commented I had put weight on over the holidays. It was a matter-of-fact statement - she wasn't being nasty - but that's when I stopped thinking I was beautiful. Twenty-five years on and I can count on my fingers the number of times I've felt beautiful. I'm forty kilos overweight and I have resigned myself to being fat and plain.