All About Beauty

Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection- this is Wikipedia's definition of beauty.  

The characterization of a person as “beautiful”, whether on an individual basis or by community consensus, is often based on some combination of inner beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence, grace, politeness, charisma, integrity, congruence and elegance, and outer beauty (i.e. physical attractiveness) which includes physical attributes which are valued on a subjective basis.

Standards of beauty have changed over time, based on changing cultural values. Historically, paintings show a wide range of different standards for beauty. However, humans who are relatively young, with smooth skin, well-proportioned bodies, and regular features, have traditionally been considered the most beautiful throughout history.

Psychologists argue that gorgeous people get preferential treatment is a not-too-pretty fact of life, long attributed to the halo effect(The halo effect or halo error is a cognitive bias in which our judgments of a person’s character can be influenced by our overall impression of him or her. It can be found in a range of situations). Now there's evidence that beauty and intelligence (and other positive characteristics) go hand in hand. Evolutionary psychologists have opened a tantalizing line of inquiry onto age-old questions about beauty, and not a moment too soon. Clinical psychologists observe that men and women alike appear more concerned than ever with attractiveness and perceived physical imperfections.  

Well, beauty is relative: what might be beauty to one person, may not be to another hence the saying - beauty lays in the eyes of the beholder. Some may disagree and say that 'the beautiful are not yet born', but does this mean that mankind has never seen beauty? or that mankind will never see beauty?


For others, beauty is in nature.the trees, rivers, flowers, birds, butterflies.... name it.... 

Nature can bring alot of beauty into our lives, it has a way of changing our moods, how we feel, and even what we do, and how we do it. when it is sunny and bright, we feel cheerful; when its raining and cold, we get all gloomy; at night when the moon is up in the sky, we say what a romantic night it is. 

What is beauty to you? Well, some people I asked think that womanhood is beauty. One friend of mine categorically stated that God created women so that men would know what beauty is. I second him. A girlfriend of mine- who madly loves babies- said that beauty is when a little baby grabs you pointing finger in its tiny little hand.....(get the picture?) We can talk all day about beauty, and probably won't come to an agreement- beauty is all around you....