Women have felt the pressure to look perfect since the beginning of time. As society becomes more and more obsessed with the way women look, women are willing to do anything it takes to achieve what society deems ˜beautiful'. Naomi Wolf argues that "the modern beauty ideology is based on a mythical perception of ˜beauty' “ a socially constructed set of ideas about how female bodies should appear and behave (Wolf, 1991 pg13).  This perception allows women to feel that physical beauty is the only thing that is important to society.Since around the sixth grade I've been struggling with societies perceptions of beauty. Looking at other girls around school and how confident they seem made me question why I felt the way I did. I always questioned why I could never be as pretty, thin or perfect as they were. It took a while for me to realize that I never really knew what was going on in the other girls' heads. They could be thinking the same things as I was. Beauty is not purely physical features or being a size two although this is the image women are receiving. Thoughts like these can be attributed to the media. Before the development of technologies of mass production an ordinary woman was exposed to few such images outside the church (Wolf 1991 pg18). The media has clearly been an influential part of societies perception of beauty. Women feel like they need to look like the models in advertisements, when in reality the models in the advertisements do not even look like that. The commercials that society views have been altered to fulfill the beauty perception so that women see these images and believe that the only way they can achieve beauty is by looking like the models in such announcements. These advertisements are not only seen by women they are being viewed by young girls as well. At younger and younger ages girls are becoming more influenced by the media. These girls are getting the message that the only way they can achie