Students asked to skip make-up for natural beauty event
March 11, 2015
In an effort to help show students their inner beauty, Student Council and C2 are teaming up for Operation Beautiful and are encouraging students and teachers to come to school wearing black and an all-natural, no make-up look Thursday, March 11.
“It’s awareness for the student body and just helps younger adults who are more insecure than other people,” C2 president Bella Ching said. “High schoolers really need that extra boost at their age to get more confidence in their personalities and with their looks.”
C2 got the idea from a Dove commercial last year about how people view themselves and after many group discussions they decided to try something similar.
“We watched a lot of videos and talked about it in our forum last year, and so that’s when we knew we wanted to do something with true beauty,” C2 sponsor Andrea Breeden said. “We really want people to be comfortable feeling natural.”
They hope to change how girls and boys view “beauty” and while they know it’s going to be a slow process, they want to start somewhere.
“In society we saw how important it is and what an impact young girls have looking at all the different articles with air-brushing and a lot of make-up,” Breeden said. “Even with boys, that’s the only way they are seeing women. And is that how we want them seeing women?”
Student Council and C2 are asking everyone to step out of their comfort zone Thursday in order to show that true beauty comes from the inside.
“The more we can get natural beauty out there, and show that true beauty comes from the inside rather than how much make-up you have on or how made-up you are, then maybe we can make a difference in young girls’ and boys’ futures,” Breeden said.
RNN ran packages Tuesday and Wednesday to help spread the message and Student Council and C2 hopes this will be a school-wide effort. There will also be a place to take pictures in the cafeteria during lunch to recognize the day. Students will stay in front of a giant sign that that says #Iwokeuplikethis. They’re encouraged to post the photos on Twitter and Instagram.
“I think kids in high school struggle all the time with confidence and how they look, and this will definitely help,” Ching said. “It will become an every year thing, and even though it’s one day now, what we are doing is saying a lot, other clubs will catch on and I think it will become a thing every year.”
