What is beauty for you?

What you answer now will surely be different in a decade. 

Philosophers wondered a lot about beauty. For example, Epicurus said that beauty was linked to pleasure, there is no beauty without pleasure.

This means that our eyes detect something beautiful as something pleasant to see.

In the past, fashions tended to change very slowly. Some of the biggest beauty trends throughout history lasted for hundreds of years. For example, how upper-class Japanese women practiced ohaguro, or teeth blackening, from 794 to the mid-19th century. 

Even very dangerous trends lasted for centuries and we also have them today, but thanks to the fact that today we have a lot of information, they are quickly detected and many scientific popularizers come out to deny dangerous trends, such as applying abrasive chemicals to the skin (currently) or like the obsession with very pale skin, in the past, which made rich Victorian women ingest arsenic wafers and sprinkle their skin with arsenic powder. arsenic.  

In contrast, our modern beauty trends last much less. In fact, the beauty standard most of us are familiar with (young, thin, and smooth-skinned) is only about 60 years old.

Expand your ideas of beauty…

Much of the recent change in beauty standards is due to the work of pioneers (thank you!!!!)

As we have expanded our ideas of what "beauty" includes, women of all colors, sizes and ages have begun to see themselves represented in magazines, movies and television.

That is why sometimes the generational clash is very big if you do not keep an open mind to inform yourself, investigate and question your beauty standards a little.

As a result of these changes, we now have the opportunity to answer, in a much more authentic way, "What is beautiful to you?" 

Thanks to social networks today we have greater accessibility to perceive other cultures and behaviors.  While we have always had the option to oppose the mainstream, this has made us more receptive to new trends of unique beauties anywhere in the world.

This leaves each of us much more freedom to redefine the word “BEAUTY”

And that is a beautiful thing. 

Have you noticed any recent beauty trends? Do you feel better knowing that social networks help us expand our concept of beauty?