When you’re walking through the streets trying to look your best in your bright orange tan, all it is doing to you is making you feel more attractive. Using a sun bed, is a very popular way to make yourself look like you have been on holiday, sunbathing on the beach from morning till night. Sun beds are acceptable if you don’t use them too much, if however you do use them all the time it could turn out to be terrible. Many people are addicted to sun beds and use them constantly. They could then be at a great risk of getting skin cancer. Some people may argue that that sun beds are a good thing because they say that they make you feel good about yourself, make you look attractive and make you feel more confident. I would argue that sun beds are a waste of time because they don’t always work on your first few sessions, so you have to use them over and over again. Sun beds are not suitable for everyone. By this, you are spending loads of money just to make you look better. The more you spend under a sun bed, the more you come out like a shrivelled up prune. A number of people would argue that sun beds make you look healthier because if you look pale, you are considered to be unhealthy and ill. It is said that 20 minutes in a sun bed is equivalent to four hours in the sun. You don’t come out with a good tan and it looks unreal. The new thing people are having now is a spray tan because it is much healthier than using a sun bed.
Celebrities are everywhere, in magazines, on television, in newspapers and in our heads. Everyone has a image in their mind of a slim, attractive, ideal idol. We just want to look like these people as we grew up with them. Celebrities are rich, have amazing houses, cars and beautiful physiques. We would all love to look like them. Everybody is copying their clothes, shoes and bodies. If celebrities do something, most people like to copy. Some magazines and newspapers try to make famous people look bad, but we all buy the papers because it is entertaining for us, and we just love to see how they dress. Most celebrities create an impression that fame and money are the answer to all our problems. Celebrities go from one relationship to another, they divorce and then remarry, so many times that it creates a twisted idea of what married life should be like. They show off their wealth by buying expensive clothes, houses and cars, therefore it forms an unrealistic expectation of a regular person. However, many celebrities use their wealth and status to support charities, and by this they are educating people and encouraging others to help the charities. For example Britney Spears gave $50,000 to a cancer charity for children, she has also helped many more charities. Having emotional breakdowns, drug and alcohol problems are a common thing for famous people so it gives a bad example to people. Most celebrities come across as polite and friendly, so that when they are seen in the streets or interviews, they don’t give people a bad impression.
When someone mentions fashion, you normally think they are talking about clothes. There are so many types of clothing in all different shapes, sizes, colours, pattern and materials. Some are expensive, some are cheap and you can buy them in all different kinds of shops such as department stores, designer shops, chain shops, even charity shops. We are pressurized by these shops because of all the advertisements, shop displays and the lovely looking, young, slim models that are everywhere you go.
You rarely see a large, elderly, ugly model in fashionable clothing. You mainly see a made-up, slim, attractive model because that’s most people image of a perfect person. Even celebrities advertise clothes, for instance, when they go to a premier, some designer shops either loan or give them expensive dress to wear for free. There are fashion shows where you can see all the latest fashion. Fashion has changed over the years. Nowadays, there are so many different kinds of people with different styles. For example Goths, punks, surfing clothes, urban clothes and hippy chic’s. If it wasn’t for clothes, we would all be standing here naked.
Overall, fashion can be fun, exciting and safe. On the other hand, it can provide thousands of people with employment. Fashion is just a money making system, which is quite easy to get in to. We should always be conscious of the future risks we could be getting ourselves in to because of the health issues involved, trying to look superficial and too much peer pressure, which could make you shallow and self absorbed.
You can be fashionable however you want. It’s your own ideas and personality of how you would like to be. We all have are own style but most of us are all pressurised by advertisements, celebrities etc. So we should be confident of who we are.
