What Is Beauty?

If a man and a women wake up at the same time, are each expected to spend as much time getting ready? Is it already assumed, that the women will take longer because she has to put make up on, or brush her hair? What if the women is "ugly", does that mean that she has to wear more makeup? And if she decides that she doesn't need to take a shower, is all right for her to have the "bead head" look? Beauty has reached a new standard, and continues towards the unobtainable each time a photoshopped picture is released. Beauty used to be measured by monetary wealth. It was then decided by the the voluptuousness of her curves. Now, we connect beauty with the size of her breasts and the minimal width of her waist. Every advertisement that shows a bronzed thin girl, lying on the beach, blonde hair blowing in the breeze and blue eyes shimmering along with a pearl smile and a young man whose white linen shirt is slightly opened and whose blue eyes are looking at the young women's breasts and not her face, are horrifying. The blue eyed, blonde haired face of beauty has destroyed the concept of organic and masked the true reality of what beauty is.

"A woman went to a sweet store to buy some sweets. The man behind the counter said 'Gosh, your ugly aren't you?, I've never seen anyone as fat and hideous as you before' 'Sir' she replied. 'I didn't come here to be insulted' 'Really', he said, 'Where do you usually go?'" The sad thing is that someone finds this funny. Just as Susan Sontag said in her Vogue article "A Woman's Beauty: Put Down or Power Source", a "whole society that identifies being feminine with caring about how one looks." The man behind that counter will never get to know the possible soul mate standing right in front of him. He makes the immediate assumption that beauty is a partner with good looks not a vivacious personality, and that because the "fat" women is ugly, he sees no apparent need to interact with her. It is these types of decisions that are based in the fake mask that beauty wears today. The models that walk down the run way, as shown in the Lanvin Show, have eye liner on their calfs to appear more smooth, and haven't eaten in days to maintain their double zero waist size. She does this, to appear more attractive. But to who?

The male population plays a major role in the female appearance and vise versa. Women get plastic surgery on their breasts because men are supposed to like larger ones. They put cover up over their pimples because guys think acne is unattractive. Men over work their bodies because women prefer fit to flab. They shave their faces, or wear certain colognes to please the opposite sex. All this acting, the creation of this smooth and sexy facade, is the standard children and adults are supposed to reach. It isn't until she has " gotten raised cheeks, a higher brow, bigger breasts, and fuller lips", that she's worthy of a man. Contrasting this, are the pressures women put on men to always look handsome. If they walk a certain way, then their unattractive. If they wear tighter clothes, then they