Who actually sets the standard of beauty? After being through 3 weeks of make up lessons, I'm still left pretty clueless about the definition of beauty. Why is it being skinny is beautiful? Why is that tall means pretty? Why is oval-shape face the ideal face shape? Why double eyelids are perceived as more attractive than single eyelids? Why the sudden trend of being fair, or rather white is now considered beautiful? So many whys which most probably can't be answered.
Flipping through pages after pages of Fashion magazines is a real ego suicide. Although it's obvious that those photos have been touched up using photoshop and those models only looked that good after 2 hours of make up & styling, females inevitably still feel inferior as they stared at these colourful pages.
Skinny people go around telling others that they are fat & need dieting while fat people are being told that they can't look as good as the skinnies no matter how much effort they put in. How many times must people be told to assure them that beauty is skin deep and it exudes from the confidence within them.
Who are the shallow ones? The females themselves who endlessly compare with one another or the males who are visually stimulated? Beauty is just being stereotyped.
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