I would like to persuade you and convince you why beauty pageants should be banned.

Firstly , I would like to ask you, why should be award people for beauty when beauty can be fabricated? Why do we award people for beauty, when beauty fades away?

So again, why should we have pageants that judges people on their beauty , when we know that beauty is fake, with some blush and mascara anyone could look as good as celebrities. So we should focus on the inside of a person, as that is what differentiates them from one another.

A student in London school of economics, Ellyn James, says that beauty pageants are exactly the same as a cattle market.

This is an interesting comparison, however after much thought, I have come to realize, that she does have a point.

In a cattle market, the weigh the livestock, measure and observe them, and the buyer chooses what he prefers. And in beauty pageants, they weight the contests measure their waists and chests, they make them stand in front of an audience to be observes and they choose their favorites. So why these women should put themselves up to being exposed to the same treatment as animals?

To begin with, why it should be banned?

We all have to realize that every single woman out there has a uniqness about her that allows her to be beautiful, no matter if she is thin of fat, black or white. Beauty pageants are also discriminating. As it gives a certain weight category that women must be in, in order for them to enter the contest. So what are they saying? Fat women can’t be beautiful? This is discrimination!!

People can’t help the way they look; they aren’t born deciding what color eyes or hair they want to have. So why are we awarding people because they were lucky enough to have more appealing features?

It also allows people to be shallower, and judge others on their appearance. This could also be seen to send wrong messages to the young mind, as they start to believe that being beautiful is everything.

Many people don’t realize that beauty pageants have lead to anorexia!!

And now I will move onto the effects on non contestants. Even though they don’t participate in the pageants, it has an impact on them too. As it makes them feel self-conscious and start to criticize themselves, because they will be comparing themselves to the contestants, they will try to be as skinny, or as pretty as them. They will try to imitate their styles or attitudes as they view those women as role models.

The third point I want to discuss, is the effect on participants, when these contestants don’t win, that leads to jealousy and as we all know jealousy leads to violence and crimes.

When these contestants don’t win, it leads to insecurity, and they have a allow self-esteem, it has been known that the contestants that don’t win suffer depression and inadequacy.

Many of you aren’t aware of the extreme unhealthy measures they do for beauty. They live on orange juice and cotton diet. In which they dip cotton in orange juice in order for them not to consume a lot of calories. They go through liposuction and gastric bypass operation in which it alters the organs just so that they remain skinny or lose weight. They go through eye lid surgery and teeth construction so that they have the perfect eyes or the perfect smile. Is this the price we have to pay for beauty?

As a conclusion, I would like to say that there is no point in beauty pageants, these contestants are required to wear expensive evening gowns, spend money of:

• - hair
• - make up
• - manicures
• - pedicures
• - skin treatment
• - extensive hair care
• - change their hair color
• - get breast implants

- Wear fake eyelashes?

And for what? To get a trophy saying that they are beautiful? They don’t realize that they are presenting a fake image of beauty and a near fatal image of thin, in the mind of others?

They don’t realize the effect that it has on them and even non contestants and the society.

I would like to say that women should be proud of her accomplishment, not just her looks, interview ability and even worse her congeniality!! Prizes for being nice and beautiful. HOW PITIFUL

And now I would like to end this article with a quote from Garry Keller he says that beauty isn’t worth thinking about what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a 50 dollar haircut on a 50 cent head.