Category: Beauty

Introduction: The Controversial World of Beauty Contests Beauty contests are the competitions that focus on the physical beauty of its contestants and are watched all over the world. It sets up the benchmark for beauty in the society. The most often watched contest is Miss World Competition. These contests have been accepted in most of…

The standard of beauty has changed throughout the years, but the one thing that hasnt changed is how women have been forced to conform to the standards set by the media. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was set in the 1940s, a time when white beauty standards deformed the lives of black women. Upon…

In the article The Truth About Beauty, the author Amy Alkon talks about how modern beauty sets standards people tend to follow. It feels like our modern world has an alternate universe. Uglytopia, Amy says. Its a place where the content of a womans character is more important than her bra size or being on…

While on the airplane fragments of cloud scatter the ocean, as if painted by an artistic hand, delicate inflections of the brush spreading white over blue. Clouds pooled around the great mountains. The mountains lay in a great line like the spine of the land. Earlier in the morning the blue that stretched into the…

Read these words: You are worthless and fat, you wont make it unless youre skinny. I know its horrifying and cruel, but believe it or not, this is a sentence that is constantly heard around the world in the beauty/modeling industry. Every day people struggle with their body image because of what society wants them…

Rubens ‘Venus Before a Mirror’, is a piece that represents the Renaissance’s love for fuller-figured women. In this case, Ruben has shown a girl with love handles and rosy cheeks, using common symbolic imagery for the Renaissance period such as Cherubs and Mirrors. The mirror represents vanity and desire. The mirror and vanitas are written…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Beauty is subjective, not objective; as everyone defines and sees beauty differently. Now, why does everyone presented in the media look similar? Why is there a beauty standard? How come everyone wants to look like the same few people? What is the rave about double eyelid…

Everyone needs to look great; that is guaranteed. So, what are the steps that individuals like me must take in order to put our best self forward? Does it really just take a smidgen of makeup or perhaps a more pleasant way of dressing up? Or maybe, on the other hand, it requires starving yourself…

How does it make you feel to hear that eating disorders are now becoming prominent in children as young as 6 years old? Botox, plastic surgery, teeth bleaching, sexual costumes, full face of makeup and a can of hairspray. These are things that are accepted as suitable for full grown women. But what about young…

Through time, beauty has been catalogued as an important thing in human lives. It has been a big deal for people who are not satisfied for the way the look. Beauty can have many different concepts, however, most of the people only focus on the term of having a nice shape, and they tend to…