What is Beauty?

Beauty is the one thing that all girls obsess with. Whether it is with hair, nails, skin, and body type we all want to be perfect. The images of beauty and obsessions with hair are “programmed” into females by the American Society with all the models, movies stars, and Barbie. They all look perfect to us which makes us think of ourselves as nothing. In The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon the narrator had a hard time with society like we are having today by not looking the way they want us to.


When Frankie was little she wanted to have hair like the “All American Girl” Shirley Temple. She was not the only one, practically every little girl wanted Temple’s hair. In society if girls didn’t look like Temple they were considered to be ugly. You had to have the big blue eyes, the fair white skin, the rose pink lips, and of course the blonde sandy, shiny, perfectly curled hair. Like Frankie we have felt bad about ourselves for not looking that way and sometimes we make mistakes to look the way people want us to look.

Frankie had plaits (braids) all over her hair as did all the other little girls. But when someone saw her and called her “Buckwheat” she felt bad and hurt. According to her back in though days “Buckwheat” was the lowest name to be called. So late at night she got scissors and cut her hair, which now she was going to have to wait for a long time to get the “Temple” hair. Like Frankie wanting to have “Temple” hair, I wanted to look like Barbie.


When Barbie came out a lot of girls started or tried to look like the doll. They wanted the long hair and so on. But they couldn’t look like her because no one really looks like that and that is what American Society needs to understand.


American Society has all these commercials to get skinny, have long straight shiny hair that bounces, and so on. But guess what no one has that not even the girls in the commercials. American Society say’s we have to look certain way to be beautiful, it’s not true. We are all beautiful because we are all different. Also instead of American Society trying to help us they are bring us down because they are making more females sick because they are not eating so they can be skinny and apart of the fake society of people who try to be all perfect. No one is perfect, and if you think you are beautiful then you are and don’t let anyone tell you different.