Briana Conley

Mrs. Kinlea Hensel

English IV
11 February 2015
Annotated Bibliography: Beauty

Burkley, MelissaBurkley, EdwardStermer, S. PaulAndrade, AngelaBell, Angela C.Curtis,

Jessica. "The Ugly Duckling Effect: Examining Fixed Versus Malleable Beliefs About
Beauty." Social Cognition 32.5 (2014): 466-483. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Collection. Web. 10 Feb. 2015.
In this article it is explaining how cosmetics advertise to make people feel like they need to buy
this product to look pretty. It talks about how most of the media uses Photoshop, retouching and
body reshaping. It is explaining how females look at themselves when it comes to being exposed
to unattainable beauty images. When females are exposed to it, it makes them think of
themselves as a physical object, which makes their perceived appearance change. Attention,
affection, and anxiety of ones physical appearance is associated with negative body image
outcome. Some examples would be physical and mental capabilities, body shame, a desire to get
cosmetic surgery, eating disorders, depression, and symptomatology.
This article is a reliable source because it gives me a lot of information on my topic. It states a
couple different theories such as, cultivation theory and self-objectification theory. Also, this
article was written in the past 6 months. It gives me other examples whenever it talks about
something, it states another source to go with what they are talking about.
It provides me with a lot of information on to the way females feel when they hear negative
comments about their bodies or how they feel when they are being pressured to buy cosmetic
products. It also explains how persuasive people can be towards other people when it comes to
buying cosmetic products, even if that means to make negative comments towards people just to
make them feel like they need the product. I would use this information in my research paper by
explaining how many girls fall for buying products to make themselves feel good.

Baker, Rosie. "Beauty Brands Reject 'Poor Image' Claims." Marketing Week 35.5 (2012): 4.
Small Business Reference Center. Web. 19 Feb. 2015.
This article is it is giving an example on how make up brands use their makeup on models to
look a certain way. They said that they dont do it to make them look skinner but to try and make
them look sincere. It says that media keeps giving false advertising over and over and it lowers
females self-esteem. Its more talking about airbrushed images are being used to make a female
look a certain in commercials.
This article is very helpful because I can use it to show that they make their models look a
certain way just to give false advertising. Also, it is helpful because it gives real life brands like
LOreal and how they banned one of the campaigns. Another way that it is helpful is it talks
about the advertising laws and standards. It list industrys that are going along with this article.
I can use this in my research paper by saying industry also agree that they shouldnt make the
models look a certain just to advertise their product. Not only does some average person think
they shouldnt make a model look like something theyre not, the laws think so to. So I think that
they should make their models look as natural as they can but also use their product to sell it. I
also think that they should be so crucial while advertising their product to make it sell better they
should just show it off but not make people think they NEED to use that product.
Gunnard, Katarina, et al. "Relevance Of Social And Self-Standards In Eating Disorder
European Eating Disorders Review 20.4 (2012): 271-278. Academic Search Complete.
Web. 19 Feb. 2015.
In this article it is explaining where most depression and eating disorders come from. Most of it
starts at home with having high standard parents. Family members are like the number one
reason on how someone looks at themselves because they are the ones that are blunt to you more
than anyone. If you have high standard family members, they want you to look a certain, so they
will tell you straight up that you need to look beautiful or you need to be skinny. The article is
pretty much saying that its not just society that picks on people, it could be in their homes too.
This article is very helpful because it gives me a lot of information on different ways other than
how society looks at someone. It states different examples on people and the year right beside
them. I think it is a reliable source because it gives examples of eating disorders. It was written in
2012 which I think it would be good reliable source because its still being used since 2012. Also
because it says one thing but also explains why they said it, which helps me out a lot to
understand it better.
I can use this information in my research project by using other examples instead of just how
society makes you feel like you need to look a certain way. Its not just society, family can make

you feel like you need to look like a super model just to meet their expectation. Im going to use
that information to show how low not just society, but family also.