by Cray Sellars

Created on: June 28, 2008

There are many reasons why girls change want to their appearances. They want to be accepted by their peers at school and their co-workers. They want to be considered cute and pretty. They want to lose weight to look like supermodels. They feel like they have to be skinny to be attractive. Most girls have an idea of what they should look like. Some young girls take diet pills and starve themselves to lose weight. Some of them become anorexic or develope bulimia. Many young girls feel like their appearance is what attracts young boys.

Some young girls buy colored contacts to change their eye color. Most young girls feel the need to grow their long. They feel like long hair is sexier than short hair. In my opinion, they feel like long hair will make them look more mature. Most young girls think makeup will make them look prettier than they already are. Girls feel like their apperarance is more important than their personalities and intelligence. Society has played a big part in making girls feel this way. Skinny supermodels is all they see on commercials and movies.

Girls like to wear clothes that make them look mature. They want to look sexy but not old. They like to wear short skirts,shorts and high heels. These kind of clothes attract older men who prey on young girls. It is the parents' job to regulate how their children dresses. The parents pay for these young girls clothes most of the time. The schools regulate what girls wear in class. Most companies regulate what girls wear at work,if they are old enough to work.

Most girls associate their appearance with their own self-confidence. They won't wear a certain dress or outfit if they appear to look fat in it. They won't wear an outfit if it is not name-brand. They won't wear an outfit if other girls don't wear the same kind of outfit. They don't want to wear off-brand shoes. Most young girls like to smell good. They like to wear expensive,name-brand perfume. They like to have the cutest and most popular hairstyles.

Most young girls want to reach puberty before they get to high school. They want to look more like a woman than a little girl. They want to have full breasts and derrieres. This is very important to many girls when they become teenagers. They want to attract young boys and go on dates. It is up to the parents to determine when their kids will start dating. In my day, we started dating at age sixteen. A girl needs to be physically and emotionaly ready to date before they start dating. They need to be able to make good decisions when they are on dates. They need to know what to do in cases of emergency. They need to able to fight off advances using their strength to prevent date rape.

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