What is true beauty???? Some people would like to say it's all about inner beauty and personally I think that's a load of crap. Of course inner beauty is important, but it's only about 5% of a first impression. Physical beauty accounts for the rest. That's only until people get to know each other. Then inner beauty begins to even out with physical attractiveness.
Plastic surgeon, Dr. Stephen Marquardt, likes to think that you can fit people's faces into a mask.... if you don't fit the mask then too bad your ugly. According to Marquardt men can't be beautiful..... we can only be handsome or good looking. Most of the time Asians and blacks don't fit the mask. Supposedly White women have the ideal facial structures. I know of plenty beautiful women from all different races. So how can we try and define beauty by one standard???
Marquardt's mask with it's supermodel style of loveliness is not the only kind of beauty to admire. I know this is way over used, but it's true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Even Marquardt has admitted that he has a thing for big noses.
Marquardt's mask may help decide what beauty is from a surgical standpoint. In the real world people define their own idea of what beauty is. Although the women who fit marquardt's mask are beautiful that doesn't mean that everyone who doesn't fit the mask because of slightly imperfect features can't be seen as beautiful. Most people would agree that almost everyone is beautiful to atleast one other person.
We can't try and make one standard of beauty. We were all created for a reason. It's crazy to try and make people change themselves just so society will say they are "beautiful"
I agree with you. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone will have a different feature that they are attracted to. And many more will form once you fall in love with a person that doesn't have those characteristics (falling in love with a blonde guy made me more attracted to blonde guys... I didn't look at them much before).
At any rate, can you put the link to the article you pulled this from?
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"beauty" has an unspoken standard. it's understood. but only because those people who think they are beautiful own their look, and walk around with a light arrogance about it. so other's follow that idea and agree that it's beauty. anyone can make that standard. it correlates with self confidence.
My whatever-he-is was getting up to go home one night and I realized two things 1)objectively, his back hair really grosses me out; 2)I don't care. It's weird and I don't get it, but I guess I like him as a person more than I like his extreme furriness. That being said, I'm not the picture of exquisite beauty myself (overweight, with a shape that is not ideal for current fashions; at least I've got a perfect nose, that's hard to come by without paying for).
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I got this as a print out from one of my professors. It's from the April 1997 Marie Claire. I believe it's called "The Ultimate Beauty Test" (begins on p.114)
i think that at times people forget that beauty isn't everything, it DOES go away, unless the person gets surgery, but being a good person is.
There have been some studies suggesting that the closer someone's face is to the golden ratio (that is, the ratio of the width of their face to the height, their nose length to their face length, the space between their eyes, etc.), the more "beautiful" they are. You are right in bringing up race in the beauty argument... but perhaps this is true. Minorities tend to do worse than whites in job interviews, "beautiful" people do better than "ugly" people... could it be that interviewers simply see a Caucasian face and think it is more "beautiful" than an Asian, black, or Latino face?
Beauty is totally in the eye of the beholder because what people like is different what i like is different from what my friends like.