What is beauty to you?

I was curious as to how other people define beauty. Is it physical? Psychological? both? Here is what i think. True beauty is reaching the point where you can truly own yourself and carry yourself with confidence no matter who you are or what you look like. What is funny is i am so stricken with insecurities right now that i don't come close to even fitting my own defenition! I am 15 though so i suppose that is normal but i am getting there though! It has helped me a lot by talking to you people... so thanks.

 

well all young women around your age go through an akward stage. i know i did i was never comfortable in my own skin. well a year or so later this stage had passed and i was happy with who i was and what i looked like and all. so just be happy with who you are and think of all the positive things about yourself. also when i went through another phase when i was 18 i got pregnant and was very depressed during the pregnancy plus after i had my son i was still upset on how i looked physically and how my attitude had changed. finally i kept telling myself all the positives and that no matter what i look like on the outside ai am a wonderful person on the inside and who cares about the shape of my body. what really helped me through these "phases" is this movie called "what the bleep do we know " and "down the rabbit hole" these have opened my eyes a whole and i am sure if you watch these that they could help you immensly.

Topics such as Quantum Entanglement, the Double Slit Experiment, Healing and the Cell, the split and re-unification of spirit and science - all are addressed in the detail required to tell the story.

 

Character

Mind

 

Purely physical.

A witty and intelligent mind is a great thing, but it isn't beauty.

 

i agree - beauty is a state of being....confidence, self-love, gentleness and humility are also a part of it.

it does help to have physical beauty to begin with, but if you don't have the rest of those underlying factors/inner qualities going on, you're not going to shine like someone who does

 

agreed beauty is more than what you look like on the outside its more of who you are on the inside. how you carry yourself as a person and showing that you have confidence in yourself and knowing that you have self worth.

you could be the most beautiful person in the world and yet be the ugliest person in the world as well. if you dont have the inner beauty then you have nothing.

 

I think its a mix of both... I mean we can see some one so striking but they mentally or inside could be the ugliest person. To me I think beauty is internal, but as far as relationships go I have to have some pyshical attraction.

 

I agree. Thinking along those lines, I think a person can be "pretty," but not necessarily "beautiful."

 

having a healthy glow, sparkely eyes, a look that illustrates you take pride in yourself, healthy teeth, a toned body, a sun kissed glow, a radiating smile, a uniquely erotic individual smell, full breasts, femenine lips and nose, big eyes and healthy and thick hair and eyelashes, individual style, soft skin

 

To me, beauty is being unafraid to wash off the layers of makeup to reveal your natural-self, to have complete disregard to what others think of you mentally and physically, and to be confident enough to speak your mind and let your personality show in everything you do.

 

Health and happiness...with a nice firm ass.

 

To me, physically, beauty lies in the appearance of health.. which is completely opposite of the picture of beauty that the media feeds us.

The picture of healthy eating doesn't equal a model depriving herself from the food we have so much access to in our culture or an obese womyn who is obviously eating too much junk food and not leading an active life.. healthy eating comes in big and small sizes but it's all about your natural structure.. . Healthy teeth aren't bleached white and perfectly straight. Healthy skin can have some flaws, or doesn't have to have any flaws but isn't suffocating under layers of foundation. Beauty doesn't require huge breasts (although it certainly can!) a totally hairless body or the pain and potential danger experienced by plastic surgery, or the break-outs your skin suffers from too many layers of makeup to count. Beauty is a product of nature, beauty is art.. everyone has the potential to be a natural beauty.. you just need a little more of the natural part than you think .

Yes, you're right, beauty is reflected by how you hold yourself up and the level of confidence that shines from you. Personally, I find beauty to be in kindness toward others and a lively spirit.. I find human beings gorgeous, natural, elegant (yet strange) creatures.

 

Beauty is not just physical. Someone can be "pretty," "lovely" or "gorgeous," but beauty is not about how you look. Beauty is the combination of mind, personality, goodness and physical appearance.

The media is a poor interpretation of beauty. It's like they want to provide the masses with some kind of dictionary written by the fashion and makeup industry.

People's personal definition of beauty becomes even more harsh. Everyone has their own definition of beauty, but you can't place it all on physical appearance. And you definitely can't be too hard on yourself.

Other people, especially when you're 15, can be very shallow when it comes to beauty. They're immature and don't look beyond made-up faces and a well-dressed, slim body. Intellect, personality, and natural beauty mean so much more, and eventually [most] people notice that.

Natural beauty is just that - natural. Your spirit and the good you do in the world eminate from you and I believe it makes you a beautiful person. Your own definition of beauty is probably a lot different from billboards and commercials, which is a much healithier perspective.

You can't define beauty in such a narrow way - beauty comes in so many forms. Look around - you'll see so much beauty in so many different forms. Don't give yourself a definition and try to fit into it - be you and you'll find that there's no such thing as a specific definition of beauty.

Much love.

 

i come from a family where to beautiful you had to have long thick hair and perfect skin and be really thin and tall and basically be model-like. i have 3 sisters. all of them fit the description i just mentioned.i on the other hand i am opposite .major opposite. i have short hair. i have 23 tattoos.i have lots of piercings.I am short. I am not thin(not FAT but just not really think like them), .I don't have operfect skin.I have sensitive skin that breaks out alot. I was raised to believe I was not as pretty as my sisters and my mom always tried to make me try more to be like them. I am nothing like any of them. then one day i thought long and hard about it.I thought what really makes a woman beautiful.I thought when i look at a person first thing i notice is eyes.not color or shape. but the look IN the eyes. if a woman is happy i think shes beautiful and you can tell that right off the bat.another thing i find beautiful is when a woman doesnt fit some cookie cutter mold.if she is unique . if theres a room of 50 women who are blonde and one with red(or hell even blue!) hair walks in attentiion is grabbed and i find that beautiful.beauty is also a way a woman carries herself.if she carries herself dumpy she seems dumpy. if a woman carries herself arrogantly that as well is not beautiful. a woman who has her head up high but not her nose, a woman who walks confidently, and who genuinely loves herself is beautiful. i then realized my mother had never really acknowledged beauty in the real form, only what the AMERICAN veiw of beauty is....i remember when she used to point to women with long hair and say wow bree youd be much prettier if youd let your hair grow like hers. and i laughed at her. why?...because in my opinion hair, weight, height....doesnt matter or make beauty.

 

I think that the most physically beautiful person can be the ugliest human being I've ever met if they are mean, and someone who isn't so attractive can be the most beautiful person on earth if they are truely kind.

 

someone is truly beautiful to me if i can see their soul shining through their eyes when they smile.

 

They dress to take out the garbage,they understand the importance of a good haircut and expensive perfume,they enjoy love.

 

uh no i think not....

 

I'm exactly the opposite. Whenever I think of the word beauty it's not physical appearance that comes to mind. It's the person's heart that makes them beautiful or ugly.

 

beauty is, as i see it, both physical and a matter of charisma - personality will add to the physical beauty or take away from it, also being smart adds to one's beauty