Are magazines influencing you?

[emmajolls]

Hey,
I am a media student, and for my A-level exam, I have to conduct research to find out if certain advertisements or campaigns influence you to try and change your body type and eating habits?
If you could let me know what campaigns in magazines influence you whether its from a clothing advert or an advertisement about cosmetics.
Also, I would like to know how many of you agree with using size 0 models in magazine advertisements and let me know if you think they do influence teenagers eating habits.

Replies from both males and females would be appreciated.
Thank you.

[VraiCanon]

They influence me in the sense that I'll sometimes think 'Ooh I wish I looked like that!!' however not to a great extent because if I was seriously influenced, I would do something about it and take up the diets, the fads, the beauty tips etc.
So all in all, it probably influences me subconsciously however not so much that I can judge.

[Rashella]

I wouldn't say that the cosmetic and clothing campaigns affect me except to make me feel a bit inferior, as Vrai said I sometimes wish I looked like someone I see in a magazine but that feeling only lasts a few minutes before I forget about it and think of something else. So it only really has a short term effect that I am aware of.


As for the size 0... hmm some girls are naturally thin, so in those cases I don't see the problem but when you hear about brands forcing models onto stupid diets then yes, it annoys me. They should also make more of an effort to use normal sized girls.

Eating habits are affected to an extent I suppose.

[*Jess*]

Not really, no.

[Sneaky]

Honestly, nope. I mean, I read magazines for fun but I don't look at those girls and think "man, I wish I looked like that!" I don't particularly care if they'd like to be small and tall and tan, what have you.

[mnloveheart03]

yeah, i have looked at one, and wished i look like that.
but haven't gone to extreme measures to look like it.
i think they should have more plus size models though.
i have started working out, so i can tone myself, but
not so i equal like 100 lbs.

[-Michael-]

I just look at the Cosmo for the sex tips.

:/

[God.]

I don't need any. ;)

[-Michael-]

Lucky bastard...

:(

[Leon]

Nope, not really.

[trooperwhiteguy]

It all depends on the genre. Magazines usually do not influence me often.

[Sweetest.x.Sin]

I'm naturally thin but I'm not naturally a double zero. I used to be bigger than that, not by much, but I lost alot of weight because I was going through depression a few years back and since then I decided I liked to look thin, and I did everything I did without the help of magazines. Because I wanted to because it's how I felt, nothing and nobody influences me into anything.
I hate those magazines with the face plastic surgery faced models and the fake boobs influencing girls to get plastic surgery and implants and try to look hot and it makes the not so attractive girls feel worse when they see stuff like this which is shitty.

[FOZZYWIG]

ye they make me compare myself to them sometimes.. im fine now but once i did get realli depressed about myself cos of my looks n it didnt help being surrounded by pics of 'gorgeous' stick thin models with aibrushed faces

xx hope that helps u hun