Defining Our Own Standards of Beauty
By mati. Filed in Beauty |Tags: Beautiful, Beauty, rebel
It is time we rebel against all nonsense, especially when it comes to fixed beauty concepts and fashions. Every year, runway models show off the newest fashions – fashions that are made to look good on them. These models are about 6′ tall and most weigh less than 120 lbs. Would you really want to look like them, honestly? The last time I saw catwalk pictures on MSN, I looked at the pictures, long and hard, and my conclusion was that the poor models looked like they had been starved for months and months before they were allowed to walk down that runway. That kind of skinniness didn’t look healthy, or natural, at least not to me. And these are the people extreme fashion is made to look good on!
Are these our ideals? I don’t think they should be! Women are supposed to be round and soft. We are supposed to have babies and nurture those babies. Tight, skinny bodies with no curves aren’t as soft and nurturing as someone with a few extra pounds here and there. We have to create our own ideas of what is beautiful – and it should be based on how nature has made us. We need to celebrate our differences, rather than trying to fit into a standard of beauty that doesn’t fit any of us.
So, we need a new approach. We need to start defining our own standards of beauty by discovering and celebrating each individual’s own beauty! We have to stop comparing ourselves to anyone else, and we have to stop criticizing ourselves. We are all different from each other, we are all beautiful in our own ways, so let’s celebrate our differences instead of trying to be all the same.
First of all, we need to work with the bodies that we have. We shouldn’t have to cut and suck, stitch and tuck so that we can all have the same bodies in the end. All we have to do is think how we can balance out what we have been given. This can easily happen with clothing. Because we all have different body shapes, each of us have to also develop our own individual clothing style.
Both the shape and the color of the clothes we choose can make a huge difference when it comes to balancing out the features we have been given. In the next week or so, I am going to write a series of posts about how we can create our own individually flattering clothing style.
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