We live in a technical world here in 2017. Its how we receive information, communicate and document. Sure, humanity has done those things for ages, if we didn't we wouldn't have history. However, when I say 'technical' it could quickly be deduced to social media.

Ah yes, what would we do without Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and all the other means of 'social' online communities? Our places to go where we constantly seek out the approval of our peers, not only that, but find information and photographs that cause us to compare our lives to that of those in our media communities.

Is it not odd how much social media influences trends and things such as beauty norms? Ever notice how preteens of today are somehow, by some witchcraft, more 'attractive" than preteens ten years ago? I know when I was 12, I was wearing Croc slippers to school every day and parted my hair at my ear and called it fashion. My point is, through social media, beauty has become more unattainable than ever. Seeing celebrities such as the Jenners, Ruby Rose, Selena Gomez or whatever other famously beautiful woman comes to mind, make me extremely self-consciou and I know I'm not alone.

I'm brought back to haw big my pores are, how I have a small overbite that ever so slightly pops through my lips when I'm straight-faced, my tiny boobs, my extraordinarily average a**, acne, skin tone, limbs, suddenly everything about me becomes subsidiary. I feel secondhand, I don't fit the ideal of 'beauty'.

It's funny, I am, in general, a very self-confident person, I am very comfortable in my own skin, that is until I pull out my phone, seeing doctored images of 'beautiful' women, how their bodies are shaped, how flawless their skin is, how even tones it is, how smooth every little thing about them appears... then suddenly, I don't feel so beautiful. I see them wearing this or that, by all means I need this or that. It will help me be beautiful right? I need those RayBan glasses to be trendy, I need those Victoria's Secret panties to be sexy, I need that Calvin Klein dress to be fashionable.

When did beauty become defined by numbers? By how much money you have, and how many likes you can get?

Beauty

noun\ beau·ty \ˈbyü-tē\

The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.

What you just read is the definition of beauty as defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary. The definition of beauty states that beauty is, "qualities in a person or a thing that gives pleasure the the senses..." Qualities are what make you beautiful, not the price tag you wear or the followers you flock.