AESTHETIC BEAUTY

Aesthetic Beauty



Aesthetic Beauty

'The Beauty Myth' is an obsession with physically looking 'perfect' and traps the modern woman in an endless cycle of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to achieve what society has deemed "the flawless beauty" regardless of whether it is realistic or not. Naomi Wolf censures the exploitation of women by the fashion, beauty and advertising industries, particularly in women's magazines as we delve deeper in to the chapter on 'Culture'. She claims that as a result of being sequestered from the world and isolated from one another, the only real women's space in modern mass culture where women can seek solidarity is through women's magazines. Ironically, it is through the same myth that women are brought together and driven apart. These women may not share any particularly close relationship, but develop a sense of solidarity through sharing similar interests, agenda, or worldview. When a reader sees 'The Face', it is not because of how beautiful she looks, but the power of millions of other women seeing it and knowing it too. Wolf cites further evidence using magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan (explained during group presentation).

Beauty and reality are two totally different things but some people see it as being the same or close to being the same. To many, people feel beauty is only on the outside and how they see each other. But in all actuality, beauty is on the inside. It makes a person who they are. They could have the most gorgeous hair and perfect body but their soul and heart may be ugly,dirty,not caring. The media is what triggers most men and womens ideas and views of beauty. The celebrities always seem to have the perfect hair, clothes, makeup, body and what not, but is that what we Americans think beauty is? Who looks the best with this hairstyle or should I get my nose fixed to look like hers? When we look at it that way, we aren't seeing the real person, who they really are beyond the hair and makeup.

Beauty is all about being real with our own self. Feeling confident with what God has blessed us with. If we cant be confident about that, we cant be confident with ourselves. Men and women feel they have to be 'hot" to feel good about theirselfs and if they think that, they dont feel good on the inside and feel their personality and true person wont get them anywhere in life. If we dont feel good about ourselfs,then we wont feel beautiful. We wont care what we look like on the outside if we dont feel good on the inside.

In todays society, our life mainly revolves around the media. Who's dating who, who was wearing what at this show, who broke up. Men and women base their standards on these people. Many think because they have this certain color of hair, they have to go have it done to. Everybody strives to find this perfect beauty and it will ...