Why do so few women consider themselves beautiful
Tips / / December 19, 2019
A very small percentage of women can confidently declare their beauty. The others are cleverly flaws and consider themselves beautiful enough.
In 1976 R. Lerner conducted a survey, which parts of the body are most important for women to assess their attractiveness. Found that the most important for the woman's face, waist, chest, mouth and teeth. Also of great importance are the hair, weight, figure and clothes. So, most likely, the flaws of your appearance fit into these categories.
You have dull hair of some indistinct color? More likely to have excess weight, chest or small, or large, or the wrong shape. Maybe waist thin enough or too thin lips? In general, something you do not like in yourself.
But to say that you do not like something, you first need to purchase a criteria for what is pleasant. You were not born with their settings, how did you pick the ideal, in comparison with which you are - fat and ugly hair color?
As aptly noted philosopher David Hume:
The beauty of things exists in the mind of perceiving them.
And all the shortcomings of things exist in the same place, in your mind, which is full of stereotypes.
The body and its perception through the prism of ideals
All of us to some degree subject to socialized imitation. Since childhood, we repeat patterns of behavior that we see around us. First, we imitate their parents, then their peers, heroes movies, favorite artists, and so on. D.
We are surrounded by the flow of information from television and the Internet, we get a huge number of images recognized as beautiful, and continue their social imitation. At the same ideals of beauty are constantly changing, forcing women and girls to change and adapt.
For example, to the XX century, the ideal of female beauty was considered a woman's body - not fat, but not skinny. By the early 1900's in vogue more slender figure, a girl with a sporty physique. And full of ladies were perceived as people with a lack of willpower.
In the 50-60-ies of XX century in vogue not just slim, but already thin models like Twiggy, women began abandon their natural forms, sitting on a strict diet for the sake of new ideals and bringing themselves to exhaustion.
Several deaths from anorexia forced to think about the consequences of such a fashion so that now the ideal thing of the past, with the help of various organizations. For example, of Vogue magazine refused models with eating disorders, and organizations from the world of fashion in Spain and Italy have established a minimum body mass index for the models. So did the government of Israel.
And still unnatural beauty
Thus, the models do not need to become skeletons, on the contrary, and still they can hardly be called a natural beauty: the desired angle and lighting, make-up and processing in Photoshop. Women's magazines and catalogs are filled with photos of models with radiant skin without wrinkles, moles and hair, perfect shaped face, large eyes, lips and a clear form of a perfect figure without any folds.
And in the mirror, we see a different picture: no matter how beautiful your face may be, on it there are small facial wrinkles, moles, and other defects, which actually is not flawed, but natural part appearance.
The same applies to the figures. Creases and cellulite, stretch marks, fat - as compared to the figures otfotoshoplennymi models, which are often really clean natural folds, its shape seems depressing spectacle. Not like those "beautiful" women that we see in the pictures on the Internet.
But even if you pace yourself workouts and diets impose tons of makeup and go to the beauty salon three times a week, you will not be ideal. Because you - not a picture, you live, breathe, change over time, you have the features that did not spoil the contrary - they complement the exterior, make it personal, vibrant and special.
What is nice - these thoughts support more people. Maybe people are just tired of such standards of beauty, and it's time to somehow change them, drawing attention to a natural appearance.
Change for the better
Dove the company now in its tenth year, campaigning "Real Beauty" against the use of Photoshop to create unrealistic ideals. In 2004, they conducted extensive study and found that only 2% of the surveyed women across the world considered themselves beautiful, and 75% would like the media to reflect the real beauty.
Thereafter, Dove launched the campaign, which was attended by real women with conventional forms. The print out pictures of women not treated with Photoshop - the naturalness and beauty.
Until now, remove the rollers, which promotes the adoption of their appearance and show another side of the beauty industry. For example, the famous movie with the model, which was removed dozens of parodies.
Some sites and magazines, too, aspire to give up beauty zafotoshoplennyh models, but still most still prefer to print and publish the girls who already comply with the usual standards.
what can you do
You will most likely not be able to influence public opinion about the beauty, but this is not required. The only thing that you need to stop suffering of "non-ideal" appearance and to correct deficiencies existent - is to accept yourself and stop to look at the pictures from the media.
Look at yourself and accept everything that you have. It may not be easy, because you have been brainwashed for years, maybe even decades. But it is possible. Any feature that you think the lack of - shape of the nose or the eyes, short neck, broad shoulders - is actually a feature of your, which should not be hidden.
If you really are overweight, it is worth going on a diet for the sake of their health, and not because it will become more attractive.
Plastic surgery, weight loss and other measures do not change your life or even lead to the satisfaction of their appearance.
If you accept your natural beauty and see yourself beautiful, will not matter in the recovered 2 kg or thrown off them had or did not have time to apply makeup, went to a tanning salon or not - you will feel beautiful, and which a.