A few years ago, at the end of 2017 videos started appearing on youtube titled, "Glow Up Transformation", "Glow Up Diaries", "Beauty is Pain *GLOW UP", "How to GLOW UP!", etc. This trend of 'glowing up' has been going on for 4 years and no one talks about how toxic it is. Let me explain myself.
The concept of this trend is to change your appearance and mind, but mainly it focuses on your looks. I respect growing your mindset and letting negativity flow out of your thoughts. But something I don't think people understand is that 'Glowing Up' is like saying I am not good enough.
Glowing up seems to be just about your appearance and how aesthetically pleasing your life looks and just the concept of glowing up is like saying I am not good enough right now and I have to 'glow up' to become enough and my life has to look like the media says so that I am accepted.
Instead of glowing up and changing yourself because you aren't good enough, we could change this to 'Growing Golden' this trend could represent us growing ourselves, not because we aren't good enough right now, but because we just want to become better people and help others. Growing Golden could be the ticket to the first step to changing how beauty is seen in this world.
We are perfect as ourselves, but the media has convinced us otherwise. They also tell us our lives need to look a certain way to be accepted. I blame this on social media and the beauty industry they create an unbelievable standard for girls and guys about how we should look and how our lives should look. WE have to remember we are perfect the way we are, and no one else can be who we are. We cannot let the standards push us to feel bad about ourselves. We have to take a stand.
