beauty

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• What is Beautiful?

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• The Wodaabe

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• The young Wodaabe men, with elaborate make-up,
  feathers and other adornments, perform dances and
  songs to impress women.

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• The male beauty ideal of the Wodaabe stresses
  tallness, white eyes and teeth the men will
  often roll their eyes and show their teeth to
  emphasize these characteristics.

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• Geisha

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• Geisha are traditional, female Japanese
  entertainers whose skills include performing
  various Japanese arts such as classical music and
  dance.

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• Today, the traditional makeup is one of their
  most recognizable characteristics

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• The traditional makeup of an apprentice geisha
  features a thick white base with red lipstick and
  red and black accents around the eyes and
  eyebrows.

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• Geisha always wear kimono. Apprentice geisha wear
  highly colorful kimono with extravagant obi.
  Always, the obi is brighter than the kimono she
  is wearing to give a certain exotic balance

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• Plastic Surgery Addicts

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• Jenny is only 28 years old and has already had 26
  plastic surgeries. Jenny was just 25 years old
  when she had a brow lift. She's also had Botox,
  cheek implants, three nose jobs, veneers on her
  teeth, three lip implants, two boob jobs, three
  breast lifts, and liposuction on her arms,
  stomach, hips, thighs, and knees. Jenny says that
  the total cost of her plastic surgeries is about
  80,000.

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• Joan Rivers, a self-confessed fan of plastic
  surgery, says shes had at least one nose job, an
  eye tuck, liposuction, two facelifts, and lots of
  Botox injections

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• Cher breast enlargement, nose jobs, cheek
  implants, tummy tuck, butt-lift, face-lift, and
  liposuction procedures she is said to have
  undergone in the past few decades.

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• Demi Moore has reportedly spent more than half a
  million dollars for procedures that include
  liposuction, breast augmentation, brow lift,
  multiple collagen injections and cosmetic knee
  surgery.

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• Enough said

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• Heroin Chic

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• Heroin chic was a look popularized in mid 1990s
  and characterized by pale skin, dark circles
  under the eyes, and jutting bones.

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• The look, which promoted exaggerated features and
  androgyny, was an alternative that stood in
  direct contradiction to the healthy and vibrant
  look.

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• Mauritania

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• What would be considered overweight in the
  Western Culture would be considered attractive in
  Mauritania.

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• The Mauritanian culture for beauty encourages
  consumption of high fat foods such as camel's
  milk, to ensure that young women attain
  sufficient size.

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• Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white
  Moor Arab population that the young girls are
  sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the
  government has described as "life-threatening".

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• Androgyny

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• Androgyny is a term derived from Greek words
  meaning man and woman.

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• In fashion statements, androgyny can refer to the
  mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics.

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• Body Art

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• Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of,
  the human body.

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• The most common forms of body art are tattoos and
  body piercings, but other types include
  scarification branding, shaping, full body tattoo
  and body painting.

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• Kayans

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• Women of the various Kayan tribes identify
  themselves by their different form of dress. They
  are renowned for wearing ornaments known as neck
  rings, brass coils that are placed around the
  neck.

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• These coils are first applied to young girls when
  they are around five years old.

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• it has been theorized that the coils originate
  from the desire to look more attractive by
  exaggerating sexual dimorphism, as women have
  more slender necks than men.

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• It has also been suggested that the coils give
  the women resemblance to a dragon, an important
  figure in Kayan folklore.

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• What other characteristics might be familiar to
  our culture?

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