Confidence is beauty!

Feeling beautiful is a personal choice. To help women identify themselves and to feel beautiful from within, Dove along with The Daily Star, held a roundtable on 25 April, 2015. The objective of the session was to point out that true beauty is not superficial rather it is deeply rooted in one's personality and thoughts. 

To meet this end, Dove, hopes to reach 15 million women and help build their self-esteem by the end of 2015. Dove has thus arranged the 'Choose Beautiful' campaign which will act as inspiration for women to embrace what should be the universal concept of beauty. This campaign's ambition is to create a social movement that will allow women to actively 
'choose beautiful' for themselves. 

During the session we had conversation with different personalities including students from different universities in the capital.

Sidratul Moontaha Mitul is a student of the University of Dhaka. She believes that the traditional ideas of being beautiful means one has to be flawless with sharp features and a great physique. Although these ideas are still there, it is changing among the youth today. Now, being beautiful does not necessarily mean you have to be picture perfect. “A great personality with a little touch of grace, and confidence will go a long way” said Mitul.

Looking good is important among the youth today because of peer pressure at school, college and also at work. But Mitul earnestly believed that one should feel confident, look presentable and feel comfortable the way they look.

Also from the University of Dhaka, was Anika Saba who reiterated what Mitul had to say. “My definition of beautiful is confidence” she said. “If you are confident you are beautiful.  In our country the definition of beauty is set by men. It is important to change their definition of beautiful” she said further. 

“People in our society are very insensitive and women are constantly being judged” opined Niladry Saber, a student from North South University.  She felt her definition of beautiful is “different from others” because she thinks being beautiful means you have to believe in yourself, be confident, and have a nice personality.”