Beautiful Controversy

Since we are doing a blog on beauty, we decided it was important to make a post explaining why beauty is such a hot topic before getting to the trends of the world.
Dictionary.com defined beauty as "the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)."

Although this is just one of many definitions, it already seems a very broad description. But there is one consistency in this, beauty in respect to an individual. Yes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Basically, what is beautiful is very subjective and differences in these ideas/ opinions of "beauty" creates a lot of heat. For example in Asia a slim body may be the ideal but in America curvaceous may be seen as beautiful.

But this isn't the only reason why beauty is so controversial. It's the obsession with this concept that takes the world by storm. Beauty privilege, does it exist? In our opinion it does and it affects everyone regardless of race, gender, age and even profession. This is a concern as some may go to extremes to match the beauty advertised by magazines, models and social media.
In this beauty blog we are not trying to force any ideas on this topic but just provide our opinions in a light-hearted way. So what is beauty to us? Beauty is a very broad concept and although many are fixated on the exterior, as sappy as this may be beauty is also comes from within. So as an ending note,true beauty starts on the inside.

Tina

Reference: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/beauty