Beauty Trap

Chair Re-done is an annual summer exhibit sponsored by D'Art Center in Norfolk, Virginia. Each artist entering the show is asked to present an artwork that incorporates a chair in a thoughtful, provocative, instructive, engaging and inventive way. My entry is entitled "Beauty Trap".
As I looked through magazines published primarily for women, I noticed that on almost every page there was an ad, a headline, or a story for women to buy something or do something to change how they looked....be more beautiful. If only we had silkier hair, longer hair.......we were taller, shorter........had less freckles.... lighter skin, darker skin.... weighed less, weighed more.......had larger breasts, smaller breasts......longer legs......and on and on. Why do women constantly compare themselves to some ideal beauty......to fall into the beauty trap?