Beauty

For a long time I used to work with models doing random fashions shoots and art shoots. I still do on occasion but I find it funny that I often spent hours looking through photos of pretty girls deciding which one I would shoot with. I always had the same complaint... They all look the same. It was seriously like trying to find a needle in a haystack to find that one unique girl. I was looking through some of the photos today I had taken today and it got me thinking on this whole idea of beauty. There seems to be a very concrete concept of what is beautiful or what is ugly. Of course given peoples variety of tastes those ideals shift slightly but you would think there would be a greater shift then what is normally considered beautiful.

Butterflies are a good example of a grand mix of beauty and uniqueness. We have this conception that butterflies are beautiful so therefore all butterflies are beautiful. Why is it that we cannot have this idea of all people. Why are only some people coined the term "beautiful?" What makes them so? Is it a proportionate face, a slim healthy figure, Big eyes, Nice butt? What? Also isn't it funny that in the middle ages our ideal of beauty was that of the larger curvy women. Why was that case then but not now? Back in the middle ages men wanted women who could birth children. Curvy women do tend to have an easier time with that. Do modern day men not want children now?

What exactly instigated the shift between healthy curves to stick thin harmful diet plans?

Since when did eating things become so wrong? I feel the taste sense is not something that should be disregarded. Sure everything in moderation. The point is to maintain health not fit into that size zero because some magazine says you should. No matter what you believe, one life, multiple lives, You are only conscious for one at a time. Why would you deny yourself the pleasure for eating that one cookie, that one scoop of ice cream? Life is meant to be enjoyed. Why would you exclude a whole sense? Certainly in this day and age we are no strangers to using our senses for pleasure. Touch, sight, hearing even smell is all used frequently to bring about a blissful and happy experience so why not taste?

Another thing that bugs me about this whole notion of beauty thing is the fact that we seem to be pulling away from anything natural. The lengths some people will go through to be considered beautiful is ridiculous. Yes makeup is fun and sometimes it is fun to switch it up but the whole point of it is to add to your natural state not completely cover it up with layers and layers of paint. Beauty treatments can be scary sometimes. Have you seen some of the machines that supposedly turn you "beautiful?" They look like science fiction torture devices. Who ever thought of the term "pain is beauty" was a sadist. Again it comes down to moderation. Everything is alright in moderation. If you enjoy tanning then go for it but in moderation. Don't sit under a lamp till someone down the street comments "do you smell bacon?" and then you go to the doctor and are shocked when they diagnose you with skin cancer.

I guess the point I am trying to make is love yourself. It doesn't matter what you "add" to yourself. Nothing you do is going to change the way you look naturally by much. You have to learn to accept your "flaws" and I use that term loosely. Your flaws are what make you unique. Do you really want to be a carbon copy of what look is in? Being yourself and loving yourself will gain you more beauty then any product, diet or treatment ever will. People are automatically drawn to others who are comfortable in their own skin. If you love yourself people will see that and they will find reasons to love you back. If you are insecure then they will see that and find reasons for you to be insecure.  So stop sabotaging yourself!