What do you think about the beauty standards in your country? What has affected you the most?

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AngelOfLight258 · Accepted Answer

i think the promote an unrealistic standard but I don't like the body positivity movement either. I think we should focus on having a high but attainable standards of beauty; i. e. women who are fit but also have the flaws that the majority of us are born with.

I think someone who exemplifies this principle is Julie Bel if you look at the women she depicts in her artwork. They are beautiful with physiques you can tell they worked their booty off for, but at the same time they don't fall into that instagram genetic elite.

What do you think about the beauty standards in your country? What has affected you the most?

Marie-Meh · Accepted Answer

Back then and even until now, I grew up watching beauty ads that hint a lot on porcelain skin being the standard of beauty, and I find it so hypocritical especially when I hear things like embrace your natural beauty. I guess I'm lucky enough that I have fair skin, but it still made me insecure when I was younger (like, am I really fair enough?) But lately, despite how this standard is still so ingrained in my mother country, more brown-skinned women are keeping it real and natural.

For context, I'm from SE Asia

SnowedIn · Answer

They're only standards if they are accepted as such. No one has published standards. That's what's so frustrating: just because magazines and the fashion industry do something doesn't make it a standard.

That said, social media is WAY more pernicious. Seriously. When we try to make everything insta worthy, that's bad. There's the issue we need to focus on.

VIVANT · Answer

Ugh I don't know about “standards” but the promotional are 🤮

I do not see now anyone can possibly think they look better with all that junk on or in them. Most people look best mid. Not rags but not inches of make up fake lashes and weirdly ‘dressed down fancy’ and exposed. Just too much.

I like unique styles so if someone puts effort in it can look nice but that’s not what I see majority of the time, just all over done but similar styles. I ignore styler for the lair part bc I like to create my own but once I a while when it is pushed in front of me I marvel at how tacky then I just look away lol

Jaximus-Lion · Answer

In Sweden! They focus on natrual beauty. The largest percent of women in sweden wear mascara and nail polish on daily basis. I don't know about the new young generation because i have not seen much (covid) and i think some shiny hair deying colors is seen every where.

smølf · Answer

In Denmark, the focus on natural beauty may be appreciated by some men who prefer a simple and understated look. However, some men may also feel pressure to conform to certain beauty standards, such as maintaining a certain level of fitness or grooming.

Ultimately, the impact of beauty standards on an individual may depend on personal values and experiences, as well as cultural and societal factors. While it's important to take care of one's appearance, it's also important to remember that beauty comes in many different forms.

loveslongnails · Answer

I'm not currently dating, but if I were, I'd reject any woman who thinks beauty means wearing tons of make-up, false eyelashes, plastic nails, getting lip fillers, emulating the Kardashians, and/or thinks that borderline obesity or anorexia is body affirming.

Wish4UrB00ty · Answer

I dont place a lot of stock in mainstream beauty standards as they do in fact exclude a lot of people. I am shocked that that film actually changed the woman’s face to fit some idea of US beauty standards… but that is the way we are in the US. All kind of messed up. And I don’t think anyone should feel a need to change themselves for some supposed standard. If that standard doesn’t work for you then make your own…

Grond21 · Answer

In the US many beauty standards are pushed by the kardashians. And they are all about making women feel insecure about every single feature and feeling like they need to use intense makeup along with lots of plastic surgery just to feel beautiful. It's insane and destructive

WonderBell99 · Answer

It does not affect me one bit, not because I fit into it, but because I do not place much importance on beauty standards.  If everyone looked the same, this world would be a boring place.

Bethany22 · Answer

The standards are the same in every country. Men in all countries prefer blondes, but it's not as if black women, Asian women, Indian women, etc, just suddenly become invisible the moment a blonde woman walks into the room, especially if everything else about her is unnattractive.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

I think beauty standards in America are asinine they force women to do dangerous procedures just to look like what society thinks is beautiful and it's sad cause every woman is beautiful in her own way.

PBandJ_Nerd · Answer

Same standard as anything. I don't worry about it too much though, but I do not fit the beauty standards that everyone is looking for. I just have good hygiene, self-care, and dress nicely.

awkwardddgirl · Answer

i hate it because fair means beautiful and i have heard many guys tell that they prefer white girls in terms of dating so that made me feel like shit especially when my boyfriend said that to me. But i don't hate my brown skin but it's sad that that is the beauty standards

sheenagwapa · Answer

don't care anymore about beauty because i don't wanba be an influencer anymore  i also lose my desire when it comes to beauty i just wanba eart

TacosRAwesome · Answer

I think it's more varied now but when I was younger it was straight hair bleached blonde. Most of us look like Italy's inbred cousins.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

It makes no difference I just like a girl with a kind heart who wants to share her love with me and trust me I don't set my standards high.

itsalyssaagain · Answer

I don’t know. For me I just enjoy makeup and I don’t really follow any rules. I just do what I think works for me.

Kaneki05 · Answer

I don't think the beauty standard is to be a chav or alternative but that's mostly the people here. And gotta say I love it the more alternative the better, the more chav less so but hey some are don't judge by the cover.

Nikki1989 · Answer

I ignore all of it. I focus on my life and not on what other people think.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

Seems like there is lack of standards in the US. So I don’t know what to say.

Iron_Man · Answer

My country will take on anything that’s female no questions asked, and they will move to the next girl most men

Luckycharms12 · Answer

Most of the are plastic or photoshopped fuck beauty standards we are all amazing perfectly imperfect the way it's ment to be just like nature

Likes2drive · Answer

No affect on me since I’m not a woman but I imagine it causes health issues with some women

NostalgiaSenpi · Answer

It really hasn't. I'm just average or so ugly that nobody cares anyway.

Cheerfull009 · Answer

Every country has his own standard, Asian have their own, European and American have their own, as African have their own.

suzzieQ · Answer

Unrealistic expectations, like being hairless and sickly thin. It's not as bad as it was but still very much present

genericname85 · Answer

not trying to be edgy here but i honestly don't know the beauty standard here, cause i couldn't care less.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Woke culture. It's become harder to jerk off. I first suspected my age, but quickly realized the bullshit above. Speaking of quick I can still bust my nut watching Christina Ricci :)

ebru_turkey · Answer

istanbul, cappadocia, antalya in turkey are very impressive and there are other places too

NathanDavis · Answer

none of it... down here, it all goes

Bricealan · Answer

I like her face.

Avicenna · Answer

They are diverse in my country

virgincountryboy · Answer

I do not know what to say about that

krin_m · Answer

They are superficial.

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