Every year countless men and
woman spend hours at the gym, thousands on plastic surgery and image
altering cosmetics while trying to meet the impossible standards set
by Barbie and Ken. Who ever said that beautiful means a certain
height or weight, or a specific degree of abs and biceps? Blame it
on the media or even the toy companies after all a short lanky G.I.
Joe is yet to hit the shelves of Toys
‘R’ Us. Likewise Cosmopolitan
or Esquire have years a
head of them before they consider a cover model unadulterated by the
miracle of air brushed photo editing.
Though the bridges built by
beauty discrimination have come a long way since brunettes with
gorgeous mocha skin first appeared on the pages of the Victoria’s
Secret catalogues or on the cover of Vogue for instance. Ethnic
beauty and the mystique in a wide array of looks replaced
preconceived notions of gorgeous people symbolized and limited by
the physical attributes carried of by the likes of Marilyn Monroe or
Clark Gable per say. In
fact companies like ‘United Colors of Benetton’ made the concept
of beauty without limits their core campaign. In the mean time
international models like Alec Wak came on to the scene as the face
of unconventional allure. While stereotypical good looks may have
taken an under studies role, those criterions have yet to leave the
stage that toys with self-confidence, and acceptance. Expression and
examples of true beauty is a secret encoded in what it means to be
‘Beautiful people’.
There is of course nothing wrong
with enhancing one’s self image and taking care of there looks
however there is a vast difference between grooming up and obsessing
or judging on the bases of the canvas bestowed upon us since birth.
While
globalization is an expanding concept between continental barriers;
there are some regions that have yet to embrace the liberating new
norms of the unmasked facets of an attractive
race. As such some regions correlate beauty with the image set by
tales of fair maidens in the pages of stories like Snow White. As a
global race the qualities or essence of beauty shine through our
integrity, personality and the ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’ inner
features we possess within. This by far bares more depth than lashes
and dimples that are nothing more than just mere physical traits
that say little about the stunning person within or the
‘beautiful’ heart we’re drawn to.
