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In many ways media sets up subconscious stereotypes for how and what we should think of ourselves and our actions. Honestly, I like this ad. I enjoy wearing makeup, but not too much. This ad is obviously geared towards women with its main focus being a woman. The ad itself is for a foundation that matches your own skin tone or "who you are", that's where the quote "don't mask me" comes in. Besides the idea that women should wear makeup, I don't specifically notice any outstanding stereotype being displayed. The makeup seems to be applied pretty naturally and isn't too gaudy. It's not suggesting that women should hide behind their makeup, it is stating that women should stay in FRONT of their makeup "mask", not behind it. I like it.

Toys :)

It is a common connotation for young children to relate blue to boys and pink to girls. This starts from the time that we are born! Baby boys are wrapped in blue blankets and baby girls are wrapped in pink. This is just an easier route for identification. It is not until we develop a little bit in our early years until we realize the difference and start liking whatever color we want. As a child I was never told that I couldn't play with a certain toy because it was a boy toy. I was fully allowed to do the things that I enjoyed doing. I would play cars with my dad, barbies with my mom, and entertain myself with whatever was available. It's no fun for a child to be told they cant do something because it is not the "normal" thing for him/her to do. Some of my best memories are four-wheeling with my dad, and helping him under the hood of our many cars. I was never one to be super girly, and it was never pushed upon me to be that way. My favorite color is still blue, and I am 100% girl.

Fav Book

I typically choose to read books for my sheer enjoyment, not specifically to get anything morale or meaningful out of them. Up to date, my favorite book would have to be a romance novel by Jamie McGuire, called Beautiful Disaster. It is an enticing piece full of scenarios and circumstances that pulled every heartstring I've got. The entire time I was reading this book, I was fully immersed in the story. My emotional range spread all the way from fuming with smoke blowing out of my ears, to crying because my heart was broken, all the way to just plain stupid happy. The story itself is about a small town girl named Abby Abernathy, who has come to a college far away from her troubled home-life, with her best friend America Mason. Once there Abby meets the campus "bad boy", Travis Maddox, but refuses to entertain him in any fashion. Eventually Abby and Travis do become involved and their relationship is just as the title suggests, a beautiful disaster, full of ups and downs perfectly constructed by McGuire.