These days it is become more and more comun to spend money on beauty products and treatments due to the influence of social media. While this trend offers several advantages, it also comes with some disadvantages. In this essay, I will discuss both the benefits and drawbacks of investing in cosmetics.
On one hand, in this modern society we focus more on how we look and we are wealing to make more investment on this. We can say that this has become a trend due to the impact of influencer in our daily life, specially in young individuals. For example, now beauty brands pays influecers to promote their products on instagram or tik tok. They have seen that this post arrive to more population and it’s easier that they buy the product or pays for the treatment.
On the other hand, this presure for looking good and be perfect can cause serius problems and even eating dissorders like TCA. This is because children cosume a lot of social media content and are more easy to influence, and this is a real issue if you have personality disorders. As a result, kids nowadays have change playing outside with their friends for scrolling throw instagram and buying skincare product that are made for adults.
To sum up, despite some positive sides of this, the drawbacks cannot be overlooked. In these regard, I would agree that is important we look after ourself, but we need to know if something is hurting both, our mental and pyshical health.