All of us are more obsessed with our own appearance more than we are willing to admit. Without realizing, we may stand before the mirror arranging our hair, applying makeup, or merely just a glaze a few seconds before we go out every day. Beauty is all around us. We are bombarded with model search like American Next Top Model and beauty contests like Miss Universe, as well as fashion magazine People, Cleo, and Cosmopolitan, all trying to answer the question "What is the meaning of beauty? ”.
Beauty is a quality or features that provide a perceptual experience of pleasure, telling or gratifying. The ideal of the perfect body image can be varies across culture, changes overtime and also impacted by racism, class prejudice, and albinism. Although it doesn't have a fixed range of ideal perfect body image, it leaves remarkable effects on women over the centuries. (Beast retrieved from http://www. allfreeessays. com/essays/Beast/149233.
html on June. 30. 2010) According to the beauty industry, age is the centre of concern for women.As we grow with ages, the function of both individual cells and organ systems change simultaneously which leave multidimensional effects on psychological, culture, physical and social levels. The most obvious evidence of aging is physical changes. The skin can become dehydrated, inelastic and sagging, causes skin folds and wrinkle; Decreasing number of nephron in kidneys causes slowdown in excretory system; Farsighted due to presbyopia-the hardening of the lens; (Retrieved from http://medical-dictionary.
thefreedictionary. com/Ehlers-Danlos+syndrome on June. 30. 010) Aging get so important to the society that Australia and United State both have their own National Aging Institute to investigate study of gerontology.
Likewise in the movie "Sex and the city 2", Samantha in her fifties who is undergoing menopause taking 44 supplements each intake to trick her body to become younger. During getaway to Abu Dhabi, her hormonal and beautification drugs are confiscated under UAE law and unable to retrieve them after several unsatisfied complaints. This portrayed woman is willing to do anything for their beauty, as the young looks beautiful and the old looks ugly.Beauty can cause emotional wounds can when event such as jealousy of beauty, unable to achieve ideal beauty which can lead to breakup, divorce, argument with love ones, and the feel of loneliness when the fear of losing your love ones arises. Constant feel of hunger or strive for beauty to match others, can resulting in difficulty on concentration in what we do in daily lives, confuse about what they lack and why would unfair things happen to them, and even reduced cognitive capacity .
Confidence is greatly reduced due to the fact that their beauty is no match to the competitors.This situation is similar to Charlotte as she is worried about her husband Harry, who is attracted to their bra-less nanny, Erin (Alice Eve) a buxom nanny who never wears a bra and is frequently ogled by men and women alike for her large breasts. (Sex and they City 2 retrieved from http://www. screenit. com/movies/2010/sex_and_the_city_2. html on June.
30. 2010) As charlotte was on the plane going to Abu Dhabi, she came across a magazine called “Cheating with the Nanny” and this is where it all started.On the whole flight charlotte lock herself in her cabin and kept reading the magazine until they gotten off the plane in Abu Dhabi and while going for a desert picnic, charlotte was only concentrating on calling her husband and fell from the camel when she was so relieve to hear her husband’s voice for a long agonizing tries of phone calls. On the second night in Abu Dhabi, Charlotte confront with Miranda and talk about how depress she is, she is extremely insecure in her marriage and fear of losing her husband to a nanny.
Love can be described as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person and romance is an ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people. (Definition of romance, retrieved from http://www. thefreedictionary. com/romance on July. 30.
2010) Some people achieve beauty in order to make themselves feel good in comparison it also impress their partners. With beauty and love in the air, affectionate concerns for the well-being of others. Likewise, Mr.Big who renovated an apartment to Carrier’s liking and most of all created a custom made closet for his beloved wife to store all her expensive and gorgeous clothing and accessories.
For their anniversary, Carrie gives Mr. Big a vintage Rolex watch, and disappointed, as she hoped for jewelry as a gift. Beauty affects relationship when women didn’t receive what they expected as accessories to beautify themselves from the partner. Although there are similarities between beauty ; The Sex and the city 2, difference are still noticeable.There are many women who are extremely concerned about how they look and aim to look like the beautiful women they see on the television and magazines. (The Power of Beauty (Sher Matsen) retrieved from http://www.
articlesbase. com/womens-issues-articles/the-power-of-beauty-2977. html on June. 30. 2010) That’s because beauty is a source of powerful weapon.
Back to the ancient times women were concerned about their looks by washing their hair by the river and some even start to applying pearl powder on their face to impress man.In science, a research shows that girls at age 3 will start to think about their own beauty when looked at the mirror. Men fall for this manipulation constantly, in fact they seldom know they’ve been mesmerize and caught in the hands of a woman’s beauty. Men are proven to be unable to release themselves from the beauty of women, with a quick look, a wink, a big inviting smile, a relaxed posture are all indications that a man has succumbed to beauty.
Studies have shown even the smartest men go stupid when entranced by the beauty of a woman.Even though it is a huge benefit for woman, Carrie, and Miranda didn’t use it to their advantage and gain something which is not theirs, and this is what makes them so different from other woman. As a published author and journalist who made career writing about dating, Carrie works hard on writing her book. She might use beauty and fashion as an idea popper but never enslave someone with her beauty to help her. Miranda is an attorney who is being sexually harassed on the job by her boss and yet she never tries to use beauty as her advantages to win over anyone, in the end she decided to quit the job and try looking for another.
Beauty might have the power to take the smartest man and turn him into a walking talking zombie stuttering, and staring, but no matter what there are still who would not abuse these powers. Beauty operations are for those who think that is the quickest and easiest solution or it is worth it no matter the cost is; there are numerous of operation to ensure ones beauty for example: plastic surgery, eye surgery / ophthalmology, abdominal wall tightening, and the list keep goes on with a total of 54 surgical operation and it is just for plastic and cosmetic surgery.There are still plenty more in this world for beauty operation yet Carrie and the girls never even thought about it as they accept how they look and who they are naturally. Time is passing by and age take its place but still, Samantha never want herself to be on the operation table having a surgery to look youthful. Not every woman choose to have a surgical operation just to achieve beauty and the reason may due to expensive surgical fees and / or life threatening side effects that might occur if something goes wrong with the operation.
Differences between wearing clothing that is suitable and clothing that are unfit have different and scary results. Clothing is an essential fabric when it comes to beauty, it has the element to help enhance a person’s beauty. Clothing is capable of making one’s body shape shine with the knowledge of what body type suitable with which fabrics and cuts . Body type is a person’s particular body shape and size, and it’s a way that a designer bases the cut of their line, according to a person’s body type.
(Knowing Your Body Type, retrieved from http://www. ideojug. com/interview/knowing-your-body-type-2 on August. 1. 2010) There is namely pear shaped, hourglass shaped, narrow shaped, full figured, and petite body.
People with poor knowledge of their body type would end up dressing themselves inappropriate and cause unsatisfying beauty or even uncomfortable feel, as it might be too tight, too loose, may create incorrect image of weight, height, body shape and sizes; nonetheless people with such knowledge would gain to their advantage for example Carrier and the girls who dresses themselves amazingly astounding.However, the clothing they wore not only suited their body type but as well as their size, result in the attitudes which brings out every inch of their beauty. Although they might let beauty presumptuously define them instead of they define beauty, they would not go for clothing that aren’t suitable and that may cause discomfort. This shows that they aren’t the type that forces their body into discomfort just to gain achieve beauty trough clothing line. Beauty is important to a person’s looks, while some are born with beauty, others are not.
By achieving beauty a person would get fulfillment, proud, appy, power, respect, attractiveness, money, authority, and much more to their liking; However while achieving this so-called beauty, there are consequences and sacrifice have to be made. Beauty does not always bring happiness. Sadness, grief, power abuse, pain, suffering and ignorance born through fail attempts of achieving beauty. Is beauty worth to achieve while making others or even yourselves suffer just because of it? Sometimes things are better when it’s natural.
One also need to be remind that, outer beauty is not as important as the inner ones. Stay natural, be confidence and accept who you are.
