LET'S DEFINE BEAUTY AGAIN :):):)

 WHAT IS BEAUTY STANDARD

Beauty standards are often defined in terms of hairstyles, skin color, and body size. The measures involved in having to live up to these standards are often risky in nature.
men with a softer jaw-line, clean shaven and fuller lips as more attractive AND WOMEN  are expected to wear makeup in their daily lives, work out at the gym, stay skinny with curves in the right places, and be young.

What is society's definition of beauty?

highly pleasing to the sight; perceived physical perfection; attractive harmony of features, figure, or complexion; exceptional grace, elegance, or charm in appearance.” Many people tend to define beauty on what on the outside rather than what's in the inside.

TALKING ABOUT THE FEMININE BEAUTY IDEAL

The feminine beauty ideal is a concept that physical attractiveness is one of women's most important assets, and something all women should strive to achieve and maintain.

Feminine beauty ideals can be rooted in hetero normative beliefs, and they heavily influence women of all sexual orientations. The feminine beauty ideal, which also includes female body shape, varies from culture to culture. Pressure to conform to a certain definition of "beautiful" can have psychological effects, such as depression, eating disorder, and low self esteem, starting from an adolescent age and continuing into adulthood.

WHO CAME UP WITH THE BEAUTY STANDARDS?

Since classical times, attempts have been made to define beauty. The history of the Western cultures reveals that many concepts of beauty have been celebrated at different places and times. The ancient Greeks believed that a beautiful face was defined in terms of a harmonious proportion of facial features. For them the ideal face was divided into three equal vertical sections and was two thirds as wide as it was high. In his book, Beauty: An Analysis and Classification, Alexander Walker accepted standards of beauty that were congruent with those of classical antiquity, but he also identified the need for a degree of asymmetry. 

Moreover, the history of beauty in Western culture is only one part of a much larger story. What about the concepts of beauty among Asians, Indians, Laplanders, Mongols, or Mayas? All these cultures have their own concepts of beauty, each with its own history and evolution. In fact, we could say that each person has his or her own concept of beauty, established by both culture and tradition and by individual temperament and sensibility. At the same time, a beloved face that is less than perfect is often found beautiful regardless of any cultural or historical standard.

BEAUTY STANDARDS ACROSS CULTURES:

There have been many ideas over time and across different cultures of what the feminine beauty ideal is for a woman's BODY IMAGE. How well a woman follows these beauty ideals can also influence her social status within her culture. Physically altering the body has been a custom in many areas of the world for a long time:-

• In MYANMAR, KAYAN LAWHI girls from the age of about five years have METAL RINGS put around their necks. Additional rings are added to the girl's neck every two years. This practice is done to produce a giraffe-like effect in women by gradually deforming the clavicles and placement of the ribs through the weight of the rings to create the impression of a longer neck. 

• In Europe, the corset has been used over time to create a tiny waistline. This was considered "ideal .

• the practice of FOOT BINDING in China involved a girl's feet being bound at age six to create the "ideal" image of feet. The girl's feet were bound to become 1/3 the original size, which crippled the woman, but also gave her a very high social status and was much admired. After the REVOLUTION 1911  across different cultural ideals and practices.

• The practice of SKIN WHITENING is common amongst women in SOUTHEAST ASIA and AFRICA. Beauty standards in these regions are rooted in the desire to possess lighter skin, which confers greater privileges in many Southeast Asian and African societies as a result of EUROPEAN COLONIALISM.
• DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SKIN COLOR, also referred to as colorism, has been described by scholars as being conceptualized by deeming lighter-skinned individuals as superior in terms of beauty and responsibility compared to their darker-skinned counterparts. Favouritism based on colorism in terms of social and economic distributions of power was based on systems implemented during the COLONIZATION OF AFRICA  by European powers, which established Eurocentric beauty standards.
  

• In CHINA, similar to SOUTH KOREA pale skin is SEEN AS DESIRABLE A classic folk saying originated from ZHANG DAI, literally translates to "pale skin covers a hundred flaws".
• Historically, TANG DYNASTY women with a plump figure were considered the standardized view of beauty, contrasting with the expectations of tall, slim figures of today.

STORY OF JAPAN:

Scholar and art critic OKAKURA KAKUZO delivered in his compilations of lectures in 1905, that the considerable bases of beauty for modern Japan is:

to make a beautiful women, She is to possess a body not much exceeding five feet in height, with comparatively fair skin and proportionally well-developed limbs; a head covered with long, thick, and jet-black hair; an oval face with a straight nose, high and narrow; rather large eyes, with large deep-brown pupils and thick eyelashes, a small mouth, hiding behind its red, but not thin lips, even rows of small white teeth; ears not altogether small; and long thick eyebrows forming two horizontal but slightly curved lines, with a space left between them and the eyes...a very high as well as a very low forehead being considered not attractive

TALKING ABOUT KOREA : IMP POINTS OF KOREA IN TERMS OF BEAUTY STANDARDS

ASIA is considered to have strict beauty standards, such as fair skin, full lips, strong eyebrows, defined cheekbones, poreless skin, and shiny hair. More particularly, SOUTH KOREA is known for its unrealistic beauty standards, transforming the skincare industry. They seek a doll-like look, defined by a "very pale skin, big eyes with double eyelids, a tiny nose with a high nose bridge, and rosebud lips", a small face and subtly pointed chin. As these standards are difficult to achieve,COSMETIC SURGERY became very popular. South Korea has the highest rate of cosmetic surgery per capita, and it keeps rising

STATISTICS OF PLASTIC SURGERY IN KOREA.

Between 1990 to 2006, the number of surgeries specializing in plastic surgery grew to the total rate of 8.9 percent per year, where the majority fraction undergoing these procedures are young people:

survey in 2004 showed that out of 1,565 female students attending college:

• 25.4 percent of them received plastic surgery for double eyelids
• 3.6 percent for nose
• 1 percent for jaw/cheekbone

Due to the rise of THE IDOLCULTURE, beauty aesthetic has undergo drastic changes where women relates beauty with professional success. In workplaces, women are expected to have physical attractiveness. Headshots are required with their resume in some places, and would often scrutinize the looks of applicants. The idealizations for a Korean woman is not only to require a certain amount of professional skill, but also to be beautiful physically as well

BEAUTY PORTRAYED IN FAIRY TALES:

The feminine beauty ideal is portrayed in many children's FAIRY TALES. IN those fairy tales, "beauty is often associated with being white, economically privileged, and virtuous. In the story SNOW WHITE, the protagonist Snow White is described as having "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony wood" and as being "beautiful as the light of day.fairy tales is frequently described as old and physically unattractive, relating beauty with youth and goodness, and ugliness with aging and evil. Ultimately, this correlation puts an emphasis on the virtue of being beautiful, as defined by Grimm fairy tales.

Starting almost 100 years after the Grimm Brothers wrote their fairy tales, the Walt Disney Animation Studios adapted these tales into animated feature films. About 40 percent of Disney films made from 1937–2000 had "only dominant cultural themes portrayed."Because the majority of characters are white "the expectation [is] that all people are or should be like this." Other common traits of female Disney characters are thin bodies with impossible bodily proportions, long, flowing hair, and large round eyes. The constant emphasis on female beauty and what constitutes as being beautiful contributes to the overall feminine beauty idea.

FROM THIS ABOVE INFORMATION, AS I HAVE ONLY TALKED ABOUT THE CASE  OF WOMEN'S ONLY, HOW THE BEAUTY WAS PORTRAYED EARLIER , NOT ONLY IN INDIA, BUT IN KOREA, JAPAN, FRANCE, SOUTH AFRICA , AMERICA , CHINA
MOSTLY THE CASES ARE MORE SEEN IN WOMEN'S, ALSO IN MEN BUT IN COMPARISON IT IS LESS.

AFTER THE STUDY OF THIS CONCEPT , I GATHERED THAT, WOMEN'S SUFFERS A LOT IN TERMS OF BEAUTY , HAVING FAIR COMPLEXION, SLIM FIGURE, ROUND EYES, BLOND HAIR . EARLIER ALSO , IN DIFFERENT CULTURES PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT DEFINITION OF BEAUTY , LIKE IN THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA SKIN WHITENING WAS THE MAIN CONCEPT OF BEAUTY, ON THE OTHER HAND WEARING CORSET IN AMERICA FOR MAINTAINING THE WAIST SIZE FOR A PERFECT FIGURE. , THE POINT WHICH I FOUND VERY INTERESTING IS THAT IN CHINA EARLIER PLUMP FIGURE WAS CONSIDERED AS AN IDEAL FIGURE FOR WOMEN WHICH MEANS HEALTHY FIGURE.

BUT IN TODAY'S TIME, IT SEEMS DIFFERENT , BEAUTY IS DEFINED AS SLIM FIGURES, PERFECT CURVES, PERFECT PROPORTION , PERFECT SIZE.

SO IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT THE MIND SET .

EVEN , THE BARBIES FAIRY TALES, REMINDS MY ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD I WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN WATCHING THESE BARBIES MOVIE LIKE SNOW WHITE, RAPUNZEL , BELLA, TINKERBELL.
ONE THING WHICH I HAVE NOTICED WHILE WRITING THIS BLOG IS THAT BEAUTY IS ALWAYS CORRELATED WITH THE FAIR COMPLEXION, BLONDE HAIR WHICH I HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED ABOVE.
EVIL IS ALWAYS REPRESENTED WITH BLACK FACE / BROWN FACE , FACE WITH PIMPLES NO LONG HAIRS, AND WAS CONSIDERED UGLY, WHICH IS NOT TRUE ENOUGH.

I THINK WE SHOULD TRY NEW TREND , THAT IS LET'S JUST REVERSE THE CONCEPT OF
BROWN FACE ,SHORT HEIGHT, BLACK HAIR, SMALL EYES  AS THE FAIRY OF THE STORY AND WHITE FACE, BLONDE HAIR, BIG ROUND EYES , LONG HAIRS AS THE VILLAIN OF THE STORY .
JUST MAKE THE BEAUTY MORE SIMPLE.
BEAUTY IS NOT ABOUT YOUR FIGURE SIZE, OR COLOR COMPLEXION , YOUR HAIR. ITS ABOUT YOUR INNER BEHAVIOR .

OUTER BEAUTY ALSO MATTERS, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT A PERSON WILL GET JUDGES BY HER / HIS COMPLEXION OR FIGURE, 
ACCORDING TO ME, WE ALL SHOULD MORE GIVE FOCUS IN FORMING OUR PERSONALITIES, BECAUSE IT COVERS EVERYTHING , PERSONALITY IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU MAKE YOURSELF MORE ATTRACTIVE IN TERMS OF YOUR SPEECH, YOUR EXPRESSIONS, YOUR KNOWLEDGE , YOUR THINKING, YOUR WAY OF WALKING , WAY OF TALKING.,
GOING TO GYM AND HAVING A THOUGHT OF BECOMING SLIM , IT'S NOT ALWAYS  ABOUT BEAUTY STANDARDS , SOMETIMES  IT'S  ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY.


SO EVERYONE , LET'S CHANGE THE MIND , AND TRY TO DEFINE BEAUTY AGAIN 

BEAUTY HAS NO COLOR, NO COMPLEXION, NO HAIR COLOR , NO FIGURE SIZE.
IT'S JUST A MIND SET WHICH IS MADE BY THE SOCIETY.

BEAUTY IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU GOT FROM YOUR BIRTH, BEAUTY IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU MAKE YOURSELF MORE CREATIVE MORE EXPRESSIVE.