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It brings out the real side to women, both black and white. It all comes down to who's perspective and who is the person of debate on the subject of beauty.

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Beauty is subjective to each individual. But how exactly is it defined? The media. The media tells us what the social standard should and shouldn't be. I am not saying I agree that it should be this way or that it is right in any way, but in today's society, people care so deeply about public perception and self-validation that other's opinions dictate self-image goals. Beauty is defined through the media today as so many people use social media. From an Afrocentric lens, there has been a bit of a shift lately. Eurocentric beauty standards have sadly been the beauty standards due to racism and prejudical ideologies. But as social media's usage increases, beauty in an Afrocentric sense has become to be more normalized.

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The media has played a significant role in the portrayal of African women in relation to the standards of beauty in society and continues to do so. Through the media, my understanding of beauty as it applies to African women was very different than what I understand now. As a little girl, I saw that when beauty was discussed in reference to African women, it would be of women with lighter skin tones and women who were described as "slim thick." Moreover, the idea of beauty would relate to African women whose hair was straight and not in its natural state. As a result, natural hair was usually seen as undesirable. However, now, with social media and many other factors, the representation of African women is mostly different than what it was growing up. You can now see the idea of beauty in relation to African women is able to apply to all types of women within the community. In addition, the clear public love for dark-skinned African women and for natural hair is very refreshing to witness.

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Social media now in 2021 shows black women that I can relate to but that wasn’t always the case. When I was younger you would only see white women or light skin women and I felt like I didn’t see anyone that looked like me. Now I’ve seen many black women with my skin complexion flourishing in the spotlight and I love to see that. Especially when the women rocks their natural hair, it makes me feel like I can be just like them in the future!

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Social media has played a huge role when it comes to understanding beauty, specifically about the Black diaspora. I’ve come to appreciate black women a lot more because of media

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Social media has played a big role in beauty when it comes to black women. The ideal black woman often fluctuates. The beauty standard for black woman has gone from light-skinned women, petite women, women with loose curly hair, brown-skinned women, women who have long straight weave, etc. For black women there is no getting right because the media will always pick out the flaws that do not match their criteria.

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Social media has played various roles when it comes to understanding a person's beauty. A lot of people get the impression that they have to look a certain way to feel pretty. It is becoming a norm form women to get their bodies done and have a certain shape and look. Personally, I believe the media plays an important role in the younger generations upbringing. I see younger girls that look so much older, however, are making money through the media. Although social media has negative effects, it also brings upon positive.

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Beauty Through Afrocentric Lens: Body Shaming and Fetishizing

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Beauty Through Afrocentric Lens: Body Shaming and Fetishizing

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the media can have largely positive effects, just as it can have largely negative effects. You can go from one post being exemplary to body positivity, to the next post being negatively influential to the mind, allowing one to think their too large or too small. It is especially difficult for black women. Some may think your small frame is beautiful, while others will assume that you don't eat enough. Also, when others think your larger, curvier women are beautiful, others may see that as fat, and may think they eat too much. your body can be fetishized just as quickly as it can be criticized.

I can recall many people criticizing Coi Leray and Megan Thee Stallion being criticized for their sizes (and for being proud of their size), as well as being praised. Megan is constantly called a man for being of taller, thicker stature, while Leray is slandered for being "too small..." only until her latest viral tiktok that was completely sexualized, and many weren't thinking of how small she was then.

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I think that social media has its pros and cons as far as put it out the image of black beauty. In some situations black beauty is portrayed as a distracted image and what I mean by that is usually in commercials we see a lot of the Black women in long flows wigs and with pounds of makeup. The problem that lies with this is when this is image is publicized everywhere people tend to cloud the real image of black beauty instead. When I think of black beauty I think of natural curly hair or Afro, darker complexed skin and natural basically    our true nature instead of uplifting black women on their natural black beauty they cover it up. An example would be Fenty beauty by Rihanna her makeup line caters to all skin types and that’s important because a lot of makeup tend to sway towards just lighter shades but besides that she puts out the image of uplifting black women on their beauty.

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Social media has shapes people minds to believe that only a specific type of person can be beautiful. Typically, media has portrayed beauty through l9ighter skin. Consequently, African American or darker skinned people have portrayed as less beautiful or not beautiful at all because they are of a darker complexion.

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The best person in terms of media that has shaped my ideal of Black Beauty was Fenty Beauty by Rhianna when she the first to have a color pallet available for ALL skin types actually and then with her Fenty Lingerie Line that was released for all body types really showed me that beauty was meant for everyone! (also my sister losing her mind when the that Fenty beauty make-up pallet came out)

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The media just helps promote the Eurocentric beauty standards that society has already set up. So when it comes to Black women the beauty standard is what is closest to the eurocentric standards: Light complexion, loose curls, curvy but not overweight, clear skin, thin nose, full lips but not big lips... when for white women the beauty standards are not as strict. This is just demonstrated by instagram, the models in the fashion industry, and casting in TV shows (for example grown-ish).

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Media's idea of beauty is what is popular at the moment. They are always all over the place. For example, one moment they support body positivity and the next they are criticizing a women for being too skinny or too fat. For that reason, my idea of beauty has not been shaped by the media or celebrities. My idea for beauty have been shaped by my family members and people I have encountered in real life. A good example would be a young lady that used to babysit me during church. Not only was she beautiful, she was also intelligent, funny, and kind. Traits like that shaped my ideas of beauty.