The New Beauty Ideal: Barbies for the Future

This past weekend Mattel announced that it is updating its notorious Barbie doll to be more diverse with additions of body types that include curvy, petite and tall forms, according to TIME.The new Barbie dolls also will have a variety of skin tones and hairstyles. This should increase Barbie’s market, allowing a greater variety of young girls to have dolls they can personally identify with; the dolls look more like them rather than a standardized ideal. 

Insecure Creative

If you're a truly creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative, and conform too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative

-Arno Penzias, Noble Prize winner for physics