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The Culture of Beauty

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Many people define beauty in different ways and every woman yearns beauty. Instead of looking within, many look outside of themselves to find what makes them beautiful. Models are defined as beautiful today because they are tall and thin but, beauty can be a combination of qualities such as a person's shape, color, or form that pleases the senses, mainly sight (beauty, 2001). I define beauty as any form of a person that gets your attention, personality, and heart, not just something that fits the conventional definition of how everyone should look. Beauty can be found everywhere even if its flowers in a meadow, or an individual helping a homeless person. So many people today define beauty as what society wants them to think is the true definition of being beautiful. Therefore, you are beautiful just by being you, not even a definition specified by society, can tell you different. The term beauty can be subjective to each and every one because beauty can have many different forms. A few of them include outer, inner, and cultural beauty. Outer beauty is external qualities that please the intellect or moral sense. According to Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary (10th ed.).(2013). Outer beauty means to me the physical care of the body. An example is Meagan Good, an actress that has great features and can change up her look and still be beautiful by sight can be defined as outer beauty. She can wear a short haircut one day and a wild hairdo or even go natural, and still be an image of beauty. Beauty isn't always someone with long hair down their back each individual has their own distinct beauty. Outer beauty defines Meagan Good because she's 31 years old and still looks young. She isn't the normal size of a model; she keeps her body in shape, and dresses nice everywhere she goes. Her physical appearance itself attracts lots of people because her style isn't the same as every woman on magazines. Many women degrade their bodiesâ

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