"Beauty"

Everyone wants to be "pretty". To achieve this, society tells us we must look and act a certain way. Do you have the right clothes, do you have the best skin, are you skinny enough and do you have "good hair". I admit, I am a victim of the social standards. I get pedicures, go shopping for "cute" clothes, and wake up 30 minutes rather than 5 minutes before class starts so I can pick out an outfit, do my makeup and hair. Hair, who knew hair could be such a big deal. I had no idea that the hair on an African American head was so different from the hair on the head of a white person. I was shocked to find out that a person would pay over a thousand dollars for a weave! That is a mortgage payment for some people! The whole concept reminds me of plastic surgery....just a little less invasive.