By Hannah Lazarte
What’s so special about the way Hailey Bieber eats sushi with a face mask on or the way Kylie Jenner puts sticky gems onto her skincare?
As the number of celebrities increases, more people seem to lose their sense of self. People now seem unable to have their own personalities and have to mask their own personalities to match those of the most popular celebrities.
Recently, Bieber has been the internet’s most recent celebrity pick. This is most notably seen when Hailey Bieber used a comb to put on a face mask. In addition, people immediately jumped on the bandwagon to join her in the slicked-back ponytails and buns.
It’s not only Bieber. Jenner is also imitated through the way of bedazzling everything. Not only did she bedazzle her face, but she also adorned her birthday cake and plastic cups with varying sizes of sticky gems. Many people even started saying the phrase, “Kylie Jenner made me [bedazzle my face mask.]”
However, many people wonder: how does this trend of imitating celebrities affect the lives of others, outside of social media?
Many would argue that it can help people by giving them a person to relate to and someone to look up to.
Yet, not all people being imitated are good role models. In fact, one would argue that there are more negative effects, such as being unable to find their own identity after copying someone else’s. Many people may be choosing to like certain things because they heard that a specific person liked them.
While these imitations have their pros and cons, one thing is for sure: people will continue to imitate famous people, such as celebrities, until social media loses its influence.
