Turn Beauty Inside Out Day 2023: The purpose of Turn Beauty Inside Out Day, celebrated annually on the third Wednesday of May, is to encourage women and young girls to value their individuality and distinctive qualities and characteristics, and to resist the media’s influence on how a woman’s beauty should be measured. This year, it occurs on May 17. This holiday (created by “New Moon” magazine and Mind and Media) emphasises the need to oppose media beauty standards. Through advertisements, glossy magazines, films, television, and the Internet, children who are highly impressionable are currently exposed to false standards of exterior attractiveness.
The history of Turn Inside-Out Day
As a protest against “People” magazine’s list of the ’50 Most Beautiful People,’ “New Moon” created Turn Beauty Inside Out Day. In the past, “New Moon” has produced a list of ’25 Beautiful Girls’ to counter the former list, emphasising that a woman’s inner attractiveness is more essential than her physical appearance. It is stated that inner beauty comprises “good actions, a good heart, and activism.”
The National Institute on Media and the Family reports that by age 13, 53 percent of adolescent females are unhappy with their appearance. This percentage rises to 78% when they are 17 years old.
The media have practically instilled in females a distorted perception of weight and the compulsion to be thin at all costs, leading them to believe that their self-worth is determined by their weight and how they dress. The majority of these girls observe successful, but excruciatingly thin, celebrities securing prominent television and film roles. This compulsion causes food disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa.
By commemorating Turn Beauty Inside Out Day, women and young girls are encouraged to focus on the concept of inner beauty. This holiday also aims to educate the public about how the media negatively affects girls’ and young men’s and boys’ perceptions of women in general.
HOW TO Observe Inside-Out Beauty Day
Keep a gratitude journal
Start a gratitude journal and record daily all the things for which you are grateful. This will help you value yourself and your possessions. It involves counting one’s benefits.
Accept your shortcomings
It is true that you cannot alter every aspect of your face or physique that you dislike. Who, however, claims that everyone is born physiologically perfect? People will overlook your physical flaws if they perceive you to be kind, intelligent, and compassionate.
Tell your story
If you have a story to convey about how beauty stereotypes have affected you, share it on social media. Add to your account of how people ought to view physical and external attractiveness the notion that physical appearance does not determine one’s identity or self-worth. This can help initiate a discussion about the impact of media on the expectations of young females and women.
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5 FACTS ABOUT INNER AND OUTER BEAUTY
Her personality reflects her innate beauty
The disposition and personality attributes of a girl, such as kindness, generosity, humility, thoughtfulness, compassion, truthfulness, and selflessness, disclose her inner beauty.
In relationships, interior beauty is of greater significance.
Because they are founded on love, respect, trust, and genuine concern for one another, enduring relationships are founded on the inner attractiveness of individuals.
Inner attractiveness may improve with age
Unlike physical beauty, which diminishes over time, inner beauty improves if a woman has internalised trustworthiness, inner confidence, and compassion, and has developed a sense of humour.
The “Bible” values an individual’s interior beauty.
According to the “Bible” (1 Peter 3:3-4): “What matters is not your outer appearance — the way you style your hair, the jewellery you wear, or the cut of your clothes — but your inner disposition.”
Beauty is skin-deep
The physical attractiveness of a woman diminishes over time, but not her virtue.
Why is Turn Beauty Inside Out Day significant?
It alters the trajectory of women’s lives
Turn Beauty Inside Out Day encourages young women to remain true to themselves, especially those who need inspiration, connection, and support. The time has come to believe that women who are beautiful on the inside are in a superior position than those who are physically attractive but have nothing else to offer.
It exposes the negative aspect of popular culture.
This holiday illustrates the negative effects of media-generated popular culture. Consciously or unconsciously, the media have exerted pressure on numerous young, insecure females to have a flawless physique, as if nothing else matters. Consequently, these girls forget that they are gifted with so much talent and potential, as well as inner qualities that allow them to flourish regardless of their physical appearance.
It’s a day to celebrate femininity
This is the day young women and girls should feel attractive regardless of their physical appearance. It is a time to recognise their talents, begin pursuing their ambitions, take pleasure in life, and engage in their passions.
TURN BEAUTY INSIDE OUT DAY DATES
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | May 18 | Wednesday |
| 2023 | May 17 | Wednesday |
| 2024 | May 15 | Wednesday |
| 2025 | May 21 | Wednesday |
| 2026 | May 20 | Wednesday |
