Beauty Is It Skin Deep Essay

Beauty: Is it Skin Deep? The concept of beauty is a widely discussed topic in society today and has been for a very long time. The concept and also the ideal of beauty is determined by societies of the world, but may not be the same in every region. Even though different cultures have different ideas as to what beauty should be defined as, the concept and ideal of beauty has been changing since it first started, and is still changing today. To begin, today’s definition of beauty is defined as being pleasing to look at whether it is a person or an object. Beauty is studied in many different areas with the most common study being beauty in culture. Society has the proposal that a woman’s pleasing qualities are more about her physical attraction, …show more content…
Simple things such as married women had to hide their hair in order to keep men from desiring them came about. The Renaissance also happened during this period of time that involved many changes in art. Some of this change showed the artists’ perception of beauty in their works during this time whic included a lot of nudity in women. This led to a change in the concept of beauty by allowing society to accept when women showed off their breasts and cleavage; however, it also brought people to frown upon those that show their knees and/or ankles. Also, during the middle ages, pale skin became a part of the idea of beauty. This is because if a woman had pale skin, this meant that they were wealthy enough to not have to work outside, as most did, and get a tan. Therefore, this led to a change where beauty was also about being wealthy. The concept of beauty continued to change more during the middle ages as the Victorian Era came about. This is the time when beauty focused more on size than anything. Corsets began to become very popular to alter waist sizes and using iron tools in order to shape the nose. Even though becoming very popular, these trends began to cause bodily malfunctions and problems. It was at this point where beauty was no longer about having a body that was as healthy as it could …show more content…
The changes of beauty that have occurred were dealing with physical appearance, and not personality, attitude or thoughts. There are many that say they are not attracted to someone just for looks, but for a great personality, a great mind, etcetera. This is because “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and being physically attractive is not all that some care about. Even though this may be true for some, most people in society are firstly attracted to a person’s looks because that is what they notice first. Being more physically attractive has also been known to allow one to have more advantages over someone who is not considered pleasing to