Self Image: Activity 3

Consider some of the social pressures that you think may shape your behavior and personal image. List the images most commonly associated with the categories or ‘boxes’ you have already listed in Activity 1.
How have you responded to social pressures to conform by adopting an appearance that relates to the categories that you feel you have placed in or have chosen?

Some of the social pressures that shape my behavior and personal image is looking and acting a certain way. Because I'm a teen, I have to always wear makeup and wear cute clothes and not act serious or mature. If people don't do the same things that other teens do, people think of them as different or weird. Because I'm a girl I have to always do my hair, wear makeup, and like to dress up and look pretty. Some of the times I do enjoy dressing up, but usually I just want to wear my onesey, but my hair up in a crazy bun, and wear no makeup. Because I'm smart and introverted, people think that I'm not supposed to be interested in my appearance or clothes, when really I do dress like the majority of teens. I do tend to just throw my hair up in a pony-tail because I'm lazy, instead of always having my hair down straight or curled, which many girls consider a no-no.