Do you think celebrities set impossibly high beauty standards?

Yes definitely, no doubt about it. Celebrities are paid the world just to look beautiful and stare at you invitingly from the pages of the glossies. Of course they spend a lot of time and money on maintaining their looks but I have seen many of them sans their make-up and they could almost look like you and me. Ok maybe they have a bit more beautiful eyes or fuller lips or sharper nose or smoother complexion but that’s all there is to them. Its definitely the brushes and the blushers that make the difference alongiwth the skills of the highly-paid make-up men. Altogether they set impossibly high standards for us commoners and our pockets too!

No. How many actors out there are beautiful naturally? without tons of makeup. without botox. without nose jobs and face lifts and boob jobs and la dee da. They're not all size 2's. Remember that Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14. I think it's silly to want to look like people who don't even look like themselves. I think the celebrities out there who ARE beautiful are the ones that are beautiful naturally and look real... not with all those alterations!

I know that I will never look like a celebrity and that is okay with me. For one I dont have the money to hire people to do my hair, my makeup, personal trainers, cook to make me healty meals and people to plan and organize my life. I am a real person with real flaws and I am happy with it. I think it is a bad example for young girls to think that they should look like these women on tv. I dont want my daughter to look up to Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton.

Yes they do and its done for two reasons. First, these empty flapping headed clowns want to look better than everyone else and need to feed their ego driven narcissist complex. The second is that these worthless brain-drains are so empty that they need to set these ostentatious standards of beauty. Without them, they are truly nothing. They can't think, they know nothing, they can't contribute anything substantial, their lives are giant messes and without the beauty there is no reason to pay attention to them.

yeah I think each of us can achieve celebrity beauty.I know all those threatments are so expensive, but I don't think we need that much sometimes.We should take the best what nautre gave us.Also our parents and grandparents look so beautiful and they didn't have all those lotion, masks, make-up and all those things like we have today.They just took the best from nature and use the herbs for looking better.Also what can be better like homwmade facila mask and specialy if you know , what yu put there and everything is fresh? I am sure , you can look like celebrity too.

I don't think it's the celebrities setting the standards but the media. Some of the most beautiful people have flaws that you never get to see because the are retouched in magazines or body double are used in movies. Just to name a couple of things. These celebrities feel the same pressure that we all do the difference is they are in front of the camera and have people point out the negatives everyday. How would you like to only weigh 114 lbs and have someone tell you that you were to heavy for their shoot/ movie/ runway etc? That is what they live with. You might not have the money they do but you can make the most of what you do have. You answered your own question. Being an average person means not being a celebrity. Most of todays celebrities were once normal people. They worked hard and stuggled to get the fame they have. So you have a choice to make Be an average person and be happy or strive for celebrity and be disapointed if it doesn't happen.

I think they set the most fake beauty standards one could ever see. If they did not have it surgically enhanced, then they have it edited in. It kills me how fake they are. Yes they very much set impossible standards and not one average person on an average income could achieve it, in my opinion. People should not look at Celebs as an example of who to look like, but their mothers or fathers, if you ask me and be happy with it. Beauty fades but your personality is who you really are and what will be remembered about you.

I don't even bother paying attention to celebrities. They are way overrated. Besides, I don't want to look like them. Most of the women in Hollywood look like toothpicks. That's not sexy. Real women with real curves are sexy. There is nothing sexier than a natural pretty woman. Someone who's had no work done. Of course celebrities look the way they do becuase most of them have had cosmetic surgery! They're fake, everything about them is fake. Are they so insecure with the way they look that they feel the need to do a bunch of work on themselves? That's how I see it. So believe me, keeping it real is way better. Nothing beats natural beauty. And most men will agree with me.

Perhaps its not the celebs so much as it is tricks of the camera and make up. I was watching the E! True Hollywood story of Goldie Hawn. (I think she is gorgeous by the way)They showed some footage of her from the late '70's and she looked older than she does now. She had many crows feet around her eyes, and her skin didnt look so great. Perhaps she could have had a face lift and all those expensive facial treatments, but I feel its photoshop and screens for cameras that make celebs look so great. Im sure if you saw them in person, they would look nothing like they do on TV or in the photographs. I have a friend who is absolutely gorgeous! Flawless skin, healthy beautiful naturally wavy hair and a body to die for even after 2 kids! Which she doesnt work hard at! I do think the average person can acheive celeb status beauty, after all "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" Bay xx