Modern Idea of Beauty

People would say that beauty is represented by those women that you see of the front cover of a magazine. I would highly disagree that there is no such thing as becoming beautiful. Beauty is not a word that cannot be fully defined through our senses. I believe that beauty is defined based on one’s personal experiences. According to Merriam-Webster, beauty “is the quality of qualities on a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.

”. I believe that this is a definition of beauty, but it does not define beauty. Beauty is what any one person would see in the mirror when they look into it. “…The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” (Audrey Hepburn). Most people would agree that wearing makeup or waxing their eyebrows every week is what makes you beautiful, but beautiful is not just what’s on the outside. I believe that “Beauty is the eye of the beholder.”, the modern idea of beauty is taking a sole purpose in everyday life, achieving beautiful is not surgically fixing yourself to be beautiful, and tattoos may have a strong meaning behind them that makes them beautiful.

“Beauty is the eye of the beholder.”, this is a popular statement that you would here all across the world. This statement means that what one individual considers beautiful is not what another individual may consider appealing. Beauty should not be defined through our senses. All objects are observed in different ways by different people of different races, and culture. Some people may even believe that beauty is something that is defined through one’s past, present, and future. This may also be because people have different taste, and opinions in others. I would say that there are two opposite ends of what people see beauty as; physical appearance, and personality.

The modern idea of beauty is taking a sole purpose in our everyday lives no matter where we are. Beauty can be defined to have two different sides; physical appearance, and personality. When you think of physical appearance the first thing that would come to your mind would be how to clear someone’s skin is, or how much they weigh and what size clothes they were. Why should this matter? Body types that people could be described as being thin, athletic, or chunky. This affects people of all ages starting in elementary school and continuing up until retirement. Bullying has become such a problem in today’s society, and with physical appearance already being an issue, kids are being bullied all over the world their physical appearance. Being attracted to one’s personality is more defined as inner beauty. This could be because someone may be attracted to the way someone talks, their level of intelligence, or their opinion of strong debatable topics. Wearing makeup and wishing you looked that model is not what beauty should be defined as.

Some would believe that becoming beautiful is surgically making yourself beautiful. Cosmetic surgery is expensive, so thinking that you have been blessed with money does not mean you should spend it on making yourself beautiful when you were already naturally beautiful. Lip injections or a boob job just means you are putting yourself out there, and you want more attention. I have heard of young women that marry old, wealthy that make them fix themselves with surgery to make them beautiful when they were already full of beauty. Women that go through the process of pregnancy are also at fault for thinking that after childbirth they have ugly bodies full of stretch marks, and weight gain. Young girls that become women through puberty may go through the phase that they are changing into this “ugly thing”. In which this is not true because beauty is not defined by the changes that your body goes through.

I think that tattoos represent beautiful things such as; the importance of someone or something, or a relevance to the person. Permanently placing writings, or markings on your body is such a lovely, and beautiful thing to do. Tattoos are an expression of emotions and artwork to show one’s feelings or interests. Thus, they are a great representation of a person’s inner and outer beauty through the artwork and emotions related to them. This goes back to describing how there are two sides to beauty; physical appearance, and personality. Sometimes, they are looked at negatively or disrespectful especially in the workplace in today’s society. Personally, I believe tattoos do an immaculate job of representing one’s beauty. For example, I have a rose tattoo on my leg that holds a deep meaning of self-beauty and self-worth. I look at it every day to remind myself that I do hold inner and outer beauty. This tattoo is empowering in the representation of the beauty of one’s body to the outside world.

I believe that “Beauty is the eye of the beholder.”, the modern idea of beauty is taking a sole purpose in everyday life, achieving beautiful is not surgically fixing yourself to be beautiful, and tattoos may have a strong meaning behind them that makes them beautiful. Beauty is a matter of someone’s opinion, and it has two different connections; physical appearance and personality. What we would consider beautiful has been affected in today’s society with thinking that other people are ugly because of their looks, and attitude. “To all the girls that think you’re ugly because you’re not a size 0, you’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.” (Marilyn Monroe). 

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