PINK BOW

When you first glance at this picture, you might first see a pink silk bow. Or maybe just the color pink. Then you see a girl with black hair, pale skin, and dark blue ocean eyes. When I saw this picture, I immediately remembered another photo we looked at and discussed in class. The photo was of a man with his mouth stitched shut. Of course, this photo has a whole new different meaning, in my opinion. At first I thought that this girl in the picture probably just took this picture for no reason. Maybe she took the picture because she thought she looked pretty and never really thought “Hey, I’m going to take a picture with a pink silk bow over my mouth to mean this.” Then I thought that maybe this photo means that she’s keeping secret(s), and they’re “girl” secrets. What I mean by girl secrets is by her beauty secrets or secrets girls would only tell other girl friends. After I thought this picture could probably mean this, I thought about the movie Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan. In the movie, one of the girls points out that one of the “mean” girl’s hair was so big because it was full of “secrets”.
This picture seemed feminine to me at first because of the pink bow and also the pink t-shirt. When you examine her hair cut/style, it doesn’t look the most feminine. She’s also not looking straight at the camera. I do think it is her taking the picture. Her head is facing off to the right, but her eyes are looking straight, but I can’t tell if it’s at the camera or above it. Her left eye is one of the center points of the picture. It’s there in the light. Her right eye is in the dark, shadowed by her hair. Going back to her hair, it seems unnaturally dark for her skin tone. Maybe she colored it a few shades darker. Also, when you go down the picture, her hair looks a little untouched.
When you think of a pink bow, you could think of being a little girl, or even the breast cancer awareness symbol. This picture could have something to do with knowing a person who has survived or died due to breast cancer.