Redefining Beauty - What is Beauty?

Did you ever wish to be more beautiful? or maybe have you ever thought of performing certain facial or bodily surgeries to make your oneself a perfect model?

Certainly, Yes.

All of us may have different ideas and the concept of beauty. Moms always look at their babies as if they were the most beautiful angels sent from heaven. Couples see beauty in either partner no matter how tall or short or skinny or troubled they may be. Belongingness matters in defining beauty. The closer someone is, the chances of being beautiful increases. Being beautiful and acceptance of being beautiful are different things.

1. The Standards of Beauty

So beauty has no standards right? For judgement, you will have to see things differently, specially a skeptical and critics eyes. Now, that resettles us on the fact that if you judge people you will have no time to love them. That explains why all babies are dear to their mothers, as all young girls are beautiful to their loved ones.

2. The Judgement of Beauty

Beauty cannot be manufactured into a unified bonds. It can only grow organically from the bottom of your heart. Beauty runs away when you develop a certain criterion to measure it. So be careful if you have a teenage girl at your house, don’t judge her, and don’t compare her with other girls or she may run away from you before you know it.

Gagan Pawar states that ‘Practically speaking, a female is beautiful when she is simple, humble, and conscience. There is no need for light skin or sharp features. There is no need for western attire. Being simple is lovely‘.

How beautiful is that.

3. Being Beautiful is a Choice

When I was in sixth grade, I read a story about a young girl who was attending a party, she had only enough money to fight for a hair-band to put on her hair, and ran happily to the party. On the way, she treated everyone with a big energetic smile and everyone was not bad to her and told her that she looked so beautiful and amazing today.

She was so excited and thought that the hair band has done some magic. But in the end, she found out that her hair band was lost, when she bumped into someone the moment she left the store. It was her confident smile that said beauty is magic. So we can say that ‘beauty is a choice‘.

4. It’s Okay to be You

It is okay to be a little chubby, it is okay to have pimples, it is okay if you don’t have well-grown eyelashes, and it is okay if you don’t have a fancy dress for a prop, it’s okay if your body is unacceptable to your respected nearby ones. Coco Chanel once said, ‘Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself’. As long as you embrace yourself, you are beautiful. Respect yourself, respect your beauty.

You must understand that you should constantly embrace who you are and attempt to appreciate your qualities just as they are! There are times when circumstances are beyond your control, and this is when you should appreciate yourself more.

Beauty is something that few understand and fewer possess. You can do more than see it, it is felt within you. It is the expression of your soul in the light. When you see something you find truly beautiful it is like the feeling of being in love; inexplicable, strong, and pure.

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5. The Beauty in Confidence

Beauty is a sense of pride, a sense of confidence, a sense of belonging. If you care so much about what other people think of you, you are going to forget your own life and you would be disrespecting your own identity. Your choice makes a big difference.

6. The Beauty in Humbleness

Beauty is a character. It is the ability to stay on a healthy diet, it is also to enjoy a great party with friends and not to worry about old unresolved disputes. Beauty is not going away when you are upset with someone. And not to cry too much when you are sad.

Beautiful has nothing to do with appearance, only the heart.

Soul Meets Body

Beauty is to tell yourself to cheer up for someone, who has raised you, and buy yourself a big-ass brain. Beauty is to be humble when you win a big prize and not to show off in front of your friends.

7. The Beauty in Helping Others

Beauty is to help your teammates when they lose a game when you are their opponent, and tell them how wonderful they are.

Beauty is not a snapshot, it is an ongoing process. It is much easier to be beautiful when you are young but what about the time when you are in your 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s? Can you be certain you will be beautiful when you are 60 years old?

A beautiful woman: when you look at her face and think of her soul. When you look at her eyes and feel her love for you. When you feel her attractiveness because of her genuineness and other virtues.

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8. The Generous Beauty

Beauty is the accumulation of life experience. If you don’t learn to improve yourself to be healthy or to be well-educated then your beautiful years will sway away. Learning new things, and unlearning the misery, unlearning the bad wishes, unlearning the worst experiences, is the real attractive personality. How beautiful is that!

If you try to stay positive open-minded and generous, then there would be fewer wrinkles on your face and more lives in your eyes.

9. Knowing a Beautiful Lady

A beautiful lady is one who is comfortable with herself. A lady who always smiled and seems unconcerned about what others think. A dying lady who is strong enough to let go of her sorrow and create a cheerful environment for everyone. A lady who is not very appealing sexually, but whose face and charm can melt your heart. A woman who is bright, intelligent, and unlike any other girl.

Beauty is a choice; it is a character. It is an ongoing process. It happens when you choose to love who you are. It happens when you care for your family, care about the ones who need you.

10. How People Define Beauty?

In a Social Experiment, random people where asked what comes to their mind when they think about beauty? There answers were very different and exciting.

Few said, ‘perfect’, ‘I don’t know’, ‘white people’, ‘my mom’, ‘things that are natural’, ‘black’, ‘make-up’, etc.

If you google beautiful men and beautiful women, what will typically show up is white people. White people are generally considered as edgy or cool. But if same features of coolness are available in black people, they are categorized as not beautiful, if not ugly.

20% to 40% of the men are unhappy with their bodies.

Karen Pallarito

If you go on Instagram and twitter, there is category of models that define the features that media glorifies as big boobs, big hips, perfect thighs, no acne, no stretchy marks, really slim waist or stomach; and for men it is well defined cheek bones, abs and muscles. Media glorifies the really nice body in which a lot of that is unattainable but that’s what they idealize for the women.

Only 4% of women around the world consider themselves beautiful.

Amy Froneman

Some states that being beautiful is to looking at yourself and not willing to change anything about it or not always criticizing it or not listening to what people say like there is something being wrong in you.

72% of girls feel tremendous pressure to be beautiful.

Dove Research

11. Perception about Our Bodies

Everyone has different perception about our own bodies; good, bad, confident, insecure, etc. Societies may be shaping these feelings. and they are almost entirely perpetuated the media. Because we are living in the age of social media, it is extremely difficult not to fall victim to the models and celebrities’ promoting a certain body type.

Globally 54% women agree that when it comes to how they look, they are their own worst beauty critic.

Dove Research

11.1 What Model Says? Cameron Russell

Cameron Russel who has been a model for more then 10 years states that our images are powerful but also they are superficial. To Russel, being fearless is being honest. Social images are just the constructions. She says, ‘I feel insecure because I look at the camera everyday for how I look like’.

12. The Haunting Standards of Beauty

Now a days, women are told to have a small waist, pretty face and a big butt but wait, you will have to look natural too. But in reality who can attain and maintain these unfulfilled standards.

The images and representations that all of us see from the very small age begin to shape our views on what is ideal or what we should look like. These images can and often do lead to extremely negative effects.

Essentially all young people have various insecurities about their bodies. For some it is more intense and for others it is simply insecurity here or there. Regardless of the type of insecurities, they impact us all. They impact how we feel when we look in the mirror, when we put on our clothes, when we take pictures, and simply when we go throughout our day. They make us feel less important. They make us diet and sometimes they make us starve, and a bitter starving.

When we do not value our bodies for what they provide us but instead what they look like we begin to treat them poorly. I think most people take their bodies for guaranteed.

13. Always Something Wrong

We will never meet the beauty standards. There will always be something wrong with us in others people eyes. However, we should learn to appreciate our bodies for giving us life and we should value our lives for giving opportunity to make a difference.

The only way to feel good about ourselves is to learn to love ourselves for who we are, not just what we look like. We need to learn how to love ourselves. That is exactly that needs to be done. There is so much to life then just what we look like.

14. The Insecurities in Beauty

One may still deal with insecurities like everyone else. What we look like is part of our identity, but who we are is so much bigger.

There is no one definition of beauty. It can come from the inside or the outside. It can be big or small. But the only person who should make that definition, is you. So the next time you think about something you don’t like about your body, ask yourself why? Why don’t you like it? Who makes you feel that you shouldn’t like it?

15. The Construct of Beauty

Beauty standards are simply constructs enforced by the society to put us down but they have no real power if you do not give it to them.

A trait that most people want is confidence. But confidence is not that is given to you, you have to go and get it. And whatever you do or not is completely in your control.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Shakespeare

16. Conclusion

We should all appreciate our bodies more, because in hindsight they are really the organs organized together and what we really look like is just science.

These unattainable beauty standards should not impact the way we feel about ourselves or how we live our lives. Do think about the underline cause of the insecurities and then try to get rid of them.

There is so much beauty in you. Beauty comes in all sizes and shapes. So let us try to see the people who they are and not what they look like. And do the same for ourselves as well.

Take a break from social media if you find yourself harping on matters over which you have no control. Adopt certain habits and actions that help you feel powerful, confident, and capable.

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