About Us

 Mission Statement:

Looking at the narrow view of beauty that the media presents through an inside perspective from three women observing how the media affects ideas of body image for women.

April Standifer:
The reason I have personally gone about writing on this topic is because I have watched my baby cousins grow up, now age 7 and 8, believing that they are not are as "beautiful" as the women they see on their Disney Channel programs or the magazines they see in the grocery stores, when they are actually some of the most beautiful girls around. Watching how the media has an unreal idea of what women really are is not the easiest thing when it personally affects you. I am also in a sorority on my college campus. So I not only see how everything is reflected with children, I live it everyday myself and with my own sorority sisters. The media affects body image from children to adults, small groups to large communities. I can go on and on about this, but heck that's what the blog is for. I hope you enjoy.

Amanda Tapia:

I want to bring into light the way some media is portraying women. How things women learn to stand up and be strong against are visible as in advertisement and create negative ideas in a woman's head. These advertisements create false ideas on how our bodies should be shaped and how some girls should act. I want to bring to the spot light the women and advertisements that fight against these ideas and embrace their beauty.

Ashley Harper:

 I graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising with a degree in Beauty Industry Marketing and Merchandising. While attending FIDM I gained a deeper love for the beauty industry. I also learned that the beauty industry is not a horrible machine that wants to generate negative body images. I found that most people in the beauty industry go into the industry to help people recognize their true beauty. Through the Beauty Window I want to shine a light on how to use beauty as a tool to enhance not hide who you really are.