IS the beauty being in Confidence?
- Polina Miaktinova
- Oct 25, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 13, 2022
One morning I was checking my feed and was amazed by ‘The Atlas of Beauty, the slideshow featuring 110 women from around the globe. This feed was the most diverse representation of women's perception, featuring women of different ages, races and statuses. Impressed by this divine global beauty, I would like to emphasize the reader's attention to 21st-century beauty and explore this topic on the psychological, cultural and physiological levels.
“-Beauty is in the eye of the spectator.” - it once said that beauty is subjective; there are no logical correlations or 'gold ratio' proportions which would define a person's beauty.
Bella Hadid has a score of 92.1% of the divine proportions, while Angelina Jolie and Arian Grande have to go through a massive plastic adjustment to fit the ratio.
Psychologically this is the primitive brain creating this proverbial bias of individual beauty portrait. However, there are many constraints which tend to influence people an inner understanding of Beauty. Culture and Media are the most influential of the last decades in dictating beauty standards.
But does it changed through globalization and world spread web?
From the beginning of times, women tended to enhance their beauty; the Goddess of Hinduism was always depicted as divine and beautiful. Whereas this could explain by the women's competition for men in old times, in nowadays this is no longer the case. Women today are empowered to decide what to wear and how to present themselves to the world.
The US and European beauty standards are different only by the main characteristic of youthfulness in America and naturally flawless skin in Europe.
On one of my days, I suddenly decided to try the model industry; well, I’m tall, opinionly skinny; what the hell, why not?
And that is where I was stacked with disappointment, model industry was not about posing and facial expressions; it's all about the presentation, will your face and body fit the brief. The models were mainly presented walking in the bikini on high hills, while the manager and photographer would observe any disadvantage they could spot.
In the end, I was just sad, thinking as an intelligent, pretty woman - I would fit in; I saw the criticism for the part of my appearance I was pretty confident about, besides the fact that my mother's agency ensured me that my beautiful portrait would fit into the Indian model industry but not European cause of the strict body proportions, which I don't fit in.
In the end, I realized that modelling does not represent the beauty ideal.
Of course, that was my experience; I also remember the marketing campaign of the Dove self-esteem project, which presented different beauty figures of women.
Culturally speaking, the nuances of different nations could be considered beautiful as the media trends. It became viral in Tick-Tok and Instagram to show various countries' make-up styles, from Arabian bold eyeliner to Asian natural pink eyeshadows. In 1990 one of the most viral trends was unnaturally thin eyebrows. However, it changed to the faded brows of Audrey Hepburn in 2010.
In most cases, women from the last decade became more aware of their beauty than a media standard. This builds up the other beauty and raises typical self-confidence.
Our generation took a significant turn from beauty to individualization, it's no longer required to look pretty; it's more important to stand up in the crowd.
Every beauty is divine; if you think you are not beautiful by some standards, that's not the case anymore. Self-confidence is nowadays beauty.
P.S - The best psychological hint to accept your appearance is to stand across the mirror and write down every beautiful part of the body and doesn't follow the pattern of one criticism.
P.Em
Regarding,
https://www.theatlasofbeauty.com/
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