What are some beauty ideals for women in your culture?
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May 24, 2014
Melanie T.
Definitely fair glowing skin for me. that and there seems to be a lot of wishing for double eyelids.
May 24, 2014
Veronica B.
That's interesting! I don't really have a culture. What are double eyelids? ^^
May 24, 2014
Samantha evelyn C.
In my culture, curvy bodies, curly hair, and nice teeth are very popular. Many girls do not have that type and those that do are very prized. I don't really get it, all women are beautiful!
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
I feel like it's very hard to define what I feel the American beauty ideals are; but to me it seems as though many people really idolize people like the Kardashians or Miley Cyrus. Personally, though, I don't subscribe to those ideals. I think that it's all about being the person that you want to be, and looking like yourself instead of someone else.
May 24, 2014
Shelley W.
I'm biracial so my Puerto Rican side the women in my family take great pride in their bodies so they spotlight one favorite feature. I have an aunt who has super long hair. She spends an hour and half each day curling it. My African-American side...plastic surgery is frowned upon. When I was thinking years ago about getting my boobs done the women in my family raised a stink about it. French side...skincare is major. My great aunts do not wear foundation...just lipstick and mascara.
May 24, 2014
Lara C.
I'm armenian so like hannah said its the kardashian kraze lol. girls want to be perfect with long dark hair, skinny bodies, small noses and big on eye makeup. a lottttttttt of girls even get nose jobs around 18ish.
May 24, 2014
Lara C.
I'm pretty curvy and have curly hair so I'm like the opposite and I don't care but if you look at kim that's the exact beauty ideal for women in my culture. also brand names are almost as important: louboutin chanel louisv etc... -_-
May 24, 2014
Queen E.
In my African American culture. Plastic surgery is frown upon, upkeep of your hair is important and style is important too. Curvy bodies and nice skin is important too.
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
I'll respectfully disagree with you on the brand names, Lara. I think that 100% depends on the city in which you live. For example, when I lived in Baltimore, no one cared at all about brand names. In Miami, the more wealthy people do, and the same goes for Atlanta; people here like brand names, but if you don't like to have or wear them, it's not like society frowns upon you.
May 24, 2014
Erin M.
I'm American and no one in my family seems Kim Kardashian or Mily Cyrus as idols, or any of my friends for that matter. But we're an unusual bunch.
Now if I can be honest, and blunt here, there's a lot of unnecessary strife in the African American community regarding beauty. Natural vs relaxed, light skinned vs dark skinned, etc, etc. It's all really ridiculous to be honest. But everyone loves thick hair and fuller features.
Now in my family we have a lot of different shades, hair textures, heights, assets sizes...So beauty to us is being happy and healthy with you and how you are.
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
Erin I completely understand about how your family doesn't idolize Miley or the Kardashians (mine doesn't either, and personally if they fell out of the media spotlight I would be extremely happy) I was simply saying that from the perspective of (forgive my wording, I'm not sure if there's really a good way to phrase this but I truly do not mean any offense if any can be found here) a suburban white girl, I know a lot of people who really, truly care about the Kardashians and think they're basically the greatest thing to ever happen.
May 24, 2014
Erin M.
No offense taken at all! And I was just saying that because reading your comment and thinking about it I know that in the beauty world it's hard to turn a corner without someone talking about them, or at least Kim K, and I'm just sitting over here like '...No...' I understand why people think she's gorgeous as there's a mathematical term behind it, Golden Section I believe it is, and she falls right into that. And her body falls into most peoples ideal/perfect woman fantasies so it's not hard to see why people idolize her.
May 24, 2014
Erin M.
So I do apologize if the way I worded my first post seemed negative in any sort of way! That truly wasn't my intent.
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
No not at all, I just wanted to make sure I was making sense, no offense taken! :) I agree with you, though, everyone think she's perfect (Have you seen anything about the perfect facial proportions? It's like the closer your face is to the measurements of this ideal face, the more appealing your face is to look at) and I'm just not a fan.
May 24, 2014
Z M.
Whoop whoop Lara I'm Armenian too and I agree with what she said. Armenians do care about brands whether you live here or in Armenia
May 24, 2014
Z M.
But beauty wise...umm small noses that's all I can think of, and being skinny being curvy isn't really something anybody talks about or embraces
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
I completely misread Armenian for American, that was my mistake, I apologize for that!
May 24, 2014
Lara C.
Hahahah thats what I thought Hannah I was talking about armenian culture in the whole paragraph:P no worries though and totally agree with you on the american beauty ideals... same here, pretty northamerican:P.
May 24, 2014
Lara C.
Ps Nathalie I love this thread what an original idea hahah.
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
Well then I'm glad we're all in agreement :) it's nice to hear about the ideals of other countries and peoples, I feel like that's not something that's often discussed.
May 24, 2014
Hannah K.
Feel free to make that thread, I think that would be extremely interesting!
May 24, 2014
Aya S.
I'm middle eastern and women in my culture are big on the perfect brows and long hair
May 24, 2014
Shelley W.
Nathalie...Yes, the French value streamlined skincare and enhancing their features versus masking it. The last time I visited I packed only a tube of mascara and red lipstick. For a month I didnt wear any foundation. And of course packed my skincare. Congrats on taking up French...mine is rusty.lol.
May 24, 2014
Emma E.
I like in the UK, being skinny is a thing, the girls I work with are all on diets (non of them need to be) , and when I was pregnant and got bigger my family wanted me to watch what I eat, so my diet would be easier after the baby.
May 24, 2014
Pearl H.
I'm half Thai and Australian. For Thai culture having fair skin, being thin with a big bust. Which needless to say, very few people look like that and work very hard to achieve that look. While here in Australia, which is more multicultural, but the average caucasian Australian wants to always have that sun kissed look with tanned skin and bleched hair. Though, I find this is not seen as much in the younger generations.