what is beauty?

by Kristy Emilia (016201200030)

What is the definition of beauty from your opinion? Fair skin, long hair, red lips? Mostly of people thought that beauty are sort of kind of these things. Eyes, skin color, hair color, eyebrow, lips are the factors that we feel as the measure to define what is beauty. There is one journalist named Ester Honig has started the Before and After project to examine different standards of beauty from across the world. What is she doing in the project? She sent an untouched photograph of herself to different designers from across the globe and simply requested that they “make her beautiful.” The results have been surprising as Honig writes on her website:”“Photoshop allows us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more illusive.” 

Here are the picture of her project that already photoshop by designers from across the globe.

We can see from the picture that the meaning of beauty is different from one country to another. The perception of beauty that we always think is true actually different from the perception of beauty from another country. Take example the perception of beauty from Israel, the perception of beauty from Israel is thick eyebrow, strong jaw, and big lips and now compare to the perception of beauty from United States, the beauty for them is have an oval face with sleek make up. Also if we take a look at the perception of beauty from Indonesia, they tend to perceive beauty as someone who have fair skin, nice eyebrows, and pink to red lips. My opinion is that no matter how do you look now and if you ever feel ugly just remember that maybe in another country you will be perceive as someone who is beautiful ;p as we can see that definition of beauty from one country to another is different.. yet nobody is perfect and the perfect beauty is only can be achieve by using photoshop. So just be yourself and always feel confident let people surround you feel the beauty from inside of you :)