The Atlas of Beauty: Beautiful Women From Around The Globe

[sexyback]

Mihaela Noroc is a 30 year-old photographer from Bucharest, Romania. She has started her own project called The Atlas of Beauty for which she has visited over 60 countries taking pictures of women. And what did she find?

Beauty, of course. In all women, in all cultures.

In my opinion, beauty means to keep alive your origins and your culture. To be natural, sincere, authentic, particular, not necessary fashion. -Mihaela Noroc

These are some of the pictures she has taken so far, from some of the countries she has visited:

Moldova

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Russia

Afghanistan

Turkey

United Kingdom

Colombia

Finland

United States

Peru

Brazil

Iran

United States

Nepal

China

India

So, what do you think of her project?

Thanks for reading! :)

[loofah]

Jeez, buncha critics on Gag! Doesn't have to be most beautiful. Why is it always a contest? Anyways, while I do get we are far too obsessed with beauty, it is nice to see an appreciation for ethnic beauty which isn't always favored or appreciated.

[vekin]

Surely there are everywhere in the world beautiful women.

Good project!!

[vekin]

The pictures are really every single one art

[vekin]

thanks for mhg

[OlderAndWiser]

I am damned glad to be a man because i love seeing beautiful women! Thanks for the post.

[sexyback]

Thanks for reading :)

[GreatnessPersonified]

I've seen hotter. lol.
And you left out African countries, so I'll help

thumbs.dreamstime.com/.../...ican-woman-173510.jpg

You're welcome.

[Sexualchrist]

I think it's an interesting project but I feel short changed that it's being done by a woman.
I'd rather a straight male artist did it. Men are better at spotting beauty in women than women are.
I mean some of those women in the photos are obviously a woman trying to guess beauty off a calculated thought process rather than the photographer really being taken by real beauty.
The brain can sort of detect the signal of beauty but that signal absolutely pumps in to a pair of nads.

[DonkeyKong1979]

Some well shot photos of some beautiful women. But the Internet is full well shot photos of beautiful women, and everyone knows there are beautiful women all over the world. I'm not sure what the point of the project is?

Perhaps she needs a more original and thought provoking subject matter to inspire her?

[Humping_Tornadoes]

It's an interesting project and she definitely has distinctive style in her photographs, they're quite great. Eye candy myTake for sure, thanks for this!

[sexyback]

Thanks! :)

[xobrowneyedbeauty]

ugh these kinds of posts just make me feel bad about myself because these women are being judged purely for what they look like. "beauty in everyone" - i get it, i do. and i do agree these women are all beautiful. but we know nothing else about them, it's just "hey look at all these pretty girls from all over the world!" I don't know i just don't understand how this is supposed to actually help anyone feel better about themselves lol

[Anonymous]

Yet another project of this type.

Do you women really perpetually require ego boosting media to get through the day without breaking down into a steaming hot pile of low self-esteem, insecurity, and misery?

[sexyback]

LOL whatever

[Nuqood]

There's FARRR better looking black women in the US than the one posted.

This reeks of a woman with low self-esteem taking pictures of 'unconventional' beauty to try to push her low self-esteem coddling campaign.

[Nuqood]

It's almost like the photographer pretentiously walked around the inner city looking for a black chick with braids, bracelets, and rings trying to juxtapose european and tribal African clothing.

[ThisDudeHere]

I'm a simple Latvian. I see Latvia mentioned on the internet, I press like. 8)

Well there is no like to press here but oh well... you get my point.

[vishna]

I think it's great. I love seeing image collections like this of people from all over the world. And it's great that she's celebrating global beauty.

[Anonymous]

westernized-ish kind of beauty
again with this stupid "a woman's beauty is her worth"
make up and flat ironed hair...
and a lot of those countries, regular/most people look a lot different

nope... no

next: atlas beauty : what contry has the sexiest woman yo must sleep with

[starryeyedkitten]

Nice idea but there's far more beautiful gals out there

[babu_001]

I think the mentality - "Only western white girls are beautiful" is wrong in the first place.

If people were not blinded by that mentality, I think there would have been no "Beautiful girls are all over the world" kind of project.

What a joke?

[sexyback]

I think it's mainly because not everyone has the chance to travel and see the types of women there all over the planet.

[babu_001]

LOL if that was true then I believe we are living in the cave men era.
Do you really think that's true? I think it's the media and porn industry that paint the white girls all over the place making them "first comes to mind" when we think about something sexy/beautiful.

[Checkers82]

I think it's more so showing the different beauty ideals in the different countries. I could be wrong though?

[babu_001]

@Checkers82 "different beauty ideals"

it's simply connected to their race and skin color. Nothing else.

They are all women for Satan's sake.!!

[Anonymous]

Wrong names
Angelina Jolie for USA
Aishwarya Rai for India
Kate Winslet for UK
Penelope Cruz for Spain
Monica Bellucci for Italy
Adriana Lima for Brazil
Doutzen Kroes for Netherlands
Fahriye Evcen for Turkey
Miranda Kerr for Australia
Claudia Lynx for Iran

[MCkart]

It should be nargis fakhri for india

[Opinion Owner]

No. Aishwarya rai is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

[phil2]

Agreed!

[Bluemax]

My coworker is from Russia. She is what some would call a mail order bride. Brilliant woman. A year older than I. Quite attractive.

[PurpleTeardrops]

Love it, but I wish there was more representation for African countries

[nymous1234]

Yeah I agree but I assume the my take owner only posted a few maybe

[LiveFreeorDieHard]

Pretty cool, i only found myself attracted to threr of them but i like seeibg the differences in cultur.

[TripleAce]

Love the pictures, there all really beautiful images

[Darkone1]

Even my Iran's friend's mother (41) is more beautiful then one you posted, while my friend is far better than yours.

[Anonymous]

Why chose European looking women with light eyes for the Middle East? Lol all these girls look similar