Looks are a huge part of women’s lives. Being perfect according to society’s strictures and portrayal is what most young women strive. The fact is film, visual advertisements, television and other forms of social media plays a huge part in the idea of what people should look like in terms of beauty In Beyoncé’s music video for Pretty Hurts, she shows how the constant pressure for women to meet unrealistic standards of beauty is painful. In her video, she shows multiple examples of how this pressure can ruin any young girl’s life. The visual opens by showing a group of women getting ready for a beauty pageant. The girls are constantly fighting and giving each other ugly looks. A man begins to take Beyoncé’s weight and measurements. Unhappy with the weight of his subject, he begins to coach the girls telling them how to stand, walk, wave, smile, yet nothing the women are doing is good enough for him. The film shows her working out and striving to be skinnier, but is disappointed when she steps on the scale. During the pageant, the host asks Beyoncé the question, “what is your aspiration in life?” She is left speechless, and then show her falling into water. She continues to repeat the question, then finally says she wants to be happy. The next scene shows her smashing all her trophies she has from other pageants. Girls are eating cotton balls soaked in orange juice, and others are throwing up in the bathroom. Spray tans are being sprayed on, and then it shows Beyoncé being prepped to getting a face lift. In the end of the beauty pageant, she doesn’t win. This shows that all of the ridiculousness isn’t worth the pain young women go through. Without a doubt, this video shows how society has created this unrealistic body image that women feel like they need to achieve obviously making these women constantly critiquing themselves and focusing on their supposed flaws. Beyoncé is shown prepping for a face-lift and Bot