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Hi everyone. Today's debate is women are too preoccupied by beauty.

As an introduction, I'd say that:
In the actual world, there is still a pressure for women to be perfect, magazines tell them how to be, the society is based on these flawless pictures of women. There's a tendency to highlight the natural beauty, and women just throw their money into beauty products and surgery. Women throw their money into diets too and some women have been preoccupied by their beauty since their childhood; magazines, advertisements [əd'vɜːtɪsmənt] just dictate what's in and what's out. The beauty is part of the social life, there are reality TV [rɪ'ælɪtɪ] all over the world like "the true cost of beauty" in England or "Let me in" in Korea in which women participate [pɑː'tɪsɪpeɪt] to win a facial ['feɪʃəl] makeover ['meɪkəʊvəʳ], all they have to do is to have the saddest and most dramatic [drə'mætɪk] story with an ugly face, at the end of their makeover they've lost weight and have a brand new face. This kind of show are highly['haɪlɪ] prized by women, it really shocks me because this interest women. Whatever, women want to achieve [ə'tʃiːv] perfection because it's part of the professional [prə'feʃənl] success, the appearance [ə'pɪərəns] of beauty is a criterion [kraɪ'tɪərɪən] of eligibility in the world of work, one 2010 Newsweek Magazine study showed 64% of hiring managers agree that beauty plays a factor during interviews.

That's bring me to the fact that:
Women think about their appearance every time, the media follows this phenomenon [fɪ'nɒmɪnən] closely ['kləʊslɪ]. The last beauty must have is to stay thin during pregnancy, Kate Middleton is the ideal figure. The models of Victoria Secret are the inspiration of what the body of a woman should look like today. Before, it was all about voluptuous shape and Marylin Monroe was perfection.
Moreover, beauty is a big preoccupation for women because they search for well-being. I mean it makes everything better about

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