The latest beauty trend: BE AUTHENTIC
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 communicators 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 caused wealthy Victorian women to ingest arsenic wafers and dust their skin with arsenic powder.
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 beauty ideas…
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's why sometimes the generational clash is very big if you don't 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?"
