Final Project: Zine

Below is the link and a copy of my zine called New Beauty. The focus of this first edition of the zine was culture and body image. It features a mix of facts and features on girls discussing their body image. The focus of this issue of the zine is mainly Caribbean girls and how their body image and self esteem has developed in relation to culture and the American beauty ideal. In the United States, girls of various cultural backgrounds (minorities), when studied, have been shown to be as affected by the American ideal beauty image perpetuated by the media, as the typical affected female (largely assumed to be white middle class teenager girls). Studies have shown that as girls, immigrant females, become more acculturated, they become more aware of the beauty image and try to measure up to it; which often causes a rise in insecurities, sometimes leading to dangerous behaviors, all to attain acceptance. The goal of this zine is to bring awareness to this issue and educate young (immigrant) girls (and their parents) on how to build self esteem, something highly important to emotional and physical health, and realize that there is no true ideal for beauty, but that beauty exist within us all.

I hope that you'll find it entertaining and informative.

http://www.scribd.com/full/45597676?access_key=key-64gvbn6pi7akotf6u27


New Beauty