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LEAH JONES HOW POPULAR CULTURE HAS INFLUENCED SELF-LOVE FACE MASK 34 Recently there has been a rise in people practicing self-love. With the new body positivity movement, social media influencing how people perceive themselves and musical artists singing about feeling good or inspiring others to feel good, people are learning to love themselves more than they have in the past. “Self-love is something nobody else can give you, but you have to know how to do it yourself,” Shakerria Dailey-Williams, a student at the University of Alabama, said. Dailey-Williams said that self-love is taking care of yourself first because when you accomplish that, you can know and do what is best for you. “Always take time to love yourself. Take one day out of the week, one day out of the month, or whatever to be about you. Treat yourself, learn to be by yourself,” Dailey-Williams said. She thinks that self-love has become so popular recently because of the positive image that some musical artists who do not fit the traditional beauty standards, such as Lizzo, are leading. “Her music is giving off the ‘love yourself’ message, and that’s always been her journey,” Dailey Williams said. “Even before I knew who she was, that was her message, and I feel like when we have people come out like her that don’t fit what used to be the beauty standard 20 years ago, and they look real, and they look like us, and they’re coming out saying ‘I love myself, I don’t care what I look like, I love myself and I want you to do the same,’ people started looking in the mirror and loving themselves.”
Doja Cat is another musical artist helping people learn to love themselves. In an article by Romper, writer, Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs said that Doja Cat shaving her head and embracing herself without hair taught her how to love her own hair and, by extension, herself. “I was in my mid-thirties before I discovered hair picks and the crowning glory of my own afro. And now, y’all can’t tell me a thing about my afro — it’s my favorite feature, with a close second being my skin,” Bernard-Jacobs wrote. Kennedy Allen, a student at UA, agrees that selflove means taking care of and acknowledging all of the wonderful things about yourself. She said that knowing how to love yourself teaches you confidence and independence. “It’s always great to rely on yourself for validation and affirmation rather than getting it from something or somebody else,” Allen said. With the rise of social media apps in popular culture, Allen said these apps pressure people to change themselves to fit society’s beauty standards. That pressure, according to Allen, can lead to a lack of confidence, where people apologize more often than they should. “I think it’s important to recognize the things that you apologize for because a lot of the time today, people will say, ‘oh, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’ and I think that when people are apologetic, they aren’t confident in themselves,” Allen said. Diamond Cook, a sophomore at UA, also agrees that confidence is a crucial part of self-love. “To get through life we have to have self-love,” Cook said. “You can’t care about what other people think. That’s the only way you’re going to get somewhere.” Allen said the body positivity movement played a huge role in how self-love is viewed in today’s culture. Allen said that because we have only ever seen one body type being represented, now we see all of these different body types, which helps promote diversity and inclusion. In an article by Rolling Stone, Lizzo said that she has had troubles with coming to terms with her body type in the past due to issues such as failed relationships and body dysmorphia, but she has learned from those experiences how to love herself and find worth within herself. However, despite how much positive representation is shown in the media, learning how to love yourself can be difficult for some people. Not being too hard on yourself is a piece of advice Allen would give to people who are learning to love themselves. “You could be in your prime right now and not know it,” Allen said. “Your future self will thank you for loving yourself now because you never know what your life will be like in a year.” you are beautiful love yourself be who you're meant to be 35
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