The document explores the pressures of beauty in society, especially on young people. It discusses how the average age a girl starts wearing makeup is 11, and the growing number of beauty shops. Interviews are conducted with a makeup artist, students, and staff to understand their perceptions of beauty and pressures. While some statistics suggest many feel self-conscious without makeup, interviews at a sixth form college found students do not feel as pressured by societal expectations of appearance as expected.

1. Script:
(Starts off with opening split screentime-lapse of girls doing makeup)
Voiceover:Concealer,foundation, eyeshadow,lipstick. Some people spend
hours doing their make up to look presentable every single day, others only
spend seconds.Is everyone affectedby the pressures of beauty in society?
Voiceover:Did you know the average age a girl starts to wear makeup is
11 years old? The pressures of beauty in societytoday are growing on a
daily basis. Today, we explore people’s perceptions of beauty and if this
change is really affecting people as much as the media are saying so.
(Presenterwalking down hallway)
On screennarrator: On average, a woman spends £100,000 oncosmetics
in their lives, but why? Is it because they want to hide behind a mask, is it
to change their appearance or is it down to the pressures of beauty in
society?
(Shots of all differentshops in Solihull)
Voiceover:We don’t realise the growing amount of beauty shops around
us. No matter where you are there will always be a makeup shop around
the corner offering the latest beauty must haves.
Voiceover:We spoke to a makeup artist and asked her if she ever felt
pressured to look a certain way, what age she sees feeling pressured and
what she would say to a client feeling pressured into looking a certain way.
(Interview with makeup artist)
(Presenterfootage outside of the sixth form)
On screenpresenter: We came to Solihull Sixth Form to ask the students
how they feelabout the pressures of beauty on men and women in today’s
society.
Voiceover:(vox pops with no audio) We started off by asking what makes
someone beautiful, and the results were surprising.

2. (Vox pops of peoples answers)
(Slow mo and blur students walking into canteen with statistics over the
top)
Voiceoverdescribing the statistics: According to a survey conducted by
Harris interactive 14% of women said that they felt self-conscious without
makeup. 16% felt unattractive and another 14% said they felt naked without
it.
Voiceover:All the statistics are contradictory to what we found out when we
came into Solihull Sixth Form.
Voiceover:(Clip of Kathryn on her computer) We spoke to Kathryn
Sainsbury – Wilkes a student developmentofficerat the sixth form to find
out if she believed it was acceptable to be expected to look a certain way, if
she’d ever been pressured in the workplace and asked what advice she
would give to a student suffering from these pressures.
(Interview with Kathryn)
On screenpresenter: (images popping up on the screen)We are constantly
surrounded by shops,advertisements and images which can compelyou to
want to look a certain way.
Voiceover:The main culprit for the belief that all girls and even some boys
are pressured these days? Social media.
(Scrolling through Instagram and YouTube, giving more statistics)
Voiceover:We spoke to someone who was bullied for not looking a certain
way. Her identity has beenhidden for personalreasons.
(Show anonymous clip)
Voiceover:So, it can be argued that the rise of makeup has placed a huge
pressure on girls or even boys in today’s society, but coming to Solihull
sixth form proved that the pressures maybe aren’t as big as people are
making them out.

3. On screenpresenter+voiceover:Next on the pressures of beauty we go
into Solihull town centre to discover the extremes some people go to, to
permanently change their appearance.