Growing up , I’m sure you’ve asked yourself what it means to be beautiful or if you fit that lucky category of people that are called as such. It’s easy to feel the need to fit certain standards of beautiful because, who doesn’t want to be perfect? But what exactly is beautiful?
This question has literally plagued the world since the beginning of time. With researchers, psychologists, scientists (and so many more professional-type people) all searching for the answer to what it means, the results can get a little blurred. I’m not here to tell you what it means to be beautiful, because in truth, beauty is subjective.
The definition of beauty, according to a Google search of “beauty definition”, is “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” However, our society has begun a movement of some sorts, to change the definition of beauty from being physical to being solely internal.
I, like a good chunk of the general public, find the idea of internal beauty very enticing. …show more content…
Then in middle school, I believed beauty was “something inside”. As cheesy as it sounds, I went along with it. Then in high school, I started to really question everything I had known. With dove and Victoria’s secret campaigns battling for the right to call their models beautiful to prove a point and sell a product, I just stopped caring. It was so confusing seeing the trends come and go. I tried to keep up for a while, putting excessive amounts of makeup on my face everyday to the point where I felt naked without it (I’m still trying to get over this). Or wearing my hair down and straight because that’s what was “in” at the time (even though I hated having my hair fall in my face). And above all, waking up earlier than my body could handle so I could get ready for an hour and make sure I looked as perfect as I could. I kept
This question has literally plagued the world since the beginning of time. With researchers, psychologists, scientists (and so many more professional-type people) all searching for the answer to what it means, the results can get a little blurred. I’m not here to tell you what it means to be beautiful, because in truth, beauty is subjective.
The definition of beauty, according to a Google search of “beauty definition”, is “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” However, our society has begun a movement of some sorts, to change the definition of beauty from being physical to being solely internal.
I, like a good chunk of the general public, find the idea of internal beauty very enticing. …show more content…
Then in middle school, I believed beauty was “something inside”. As cheesy as it sounds, I went along with it. Then in high school, I started to really question everything I had known. With dove and Victoria’s secret campaigns battling for the right to call their models beautiful to prove a point and sell a product, I just stopped caring. It was so confusing seeing the trends come and go. I tried to keep up for a while, putting excessive amounts of makeup on my face everyday to the point where I felt naked without it (I’m still trying to get over this). Or wearing my hair down and straight because that’s what was “in” at the time (even though I hated having my hair fall in my face). And above all, waking up earlier than my body could handle so I could get ready for an hour and make sure I looked as perfect as I could. I kept