Concept of beauty and beauty contest

THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY

 

What is the concept of beauty? And can we define the beauty? Before, I investigate this concept from my 2 friends(Turkish guy and Italian girl). However, It is difficult for me to judge this concept from this survey, because the sample was a few.

But in general, I think that it is different of culture, period and religion. In history, there are many beautiful women in this world. For example, Cleopatra is known as famous beautiful woman. But Plutarch( one of the famous historian in the Roman Empire) said, her looks was not peerless, but she was an intellectual person. And Gaius Julius also admired her intelligence and voice. So she could speak Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Egyptian, Ethiopian, etc. Her case is a good example. Because, beauty standards is not only face but also other factor. But actress looks who acted her were good like Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Monica bellucci. Furthermore, beauty is affected by a figure. When We see the Venus of Milo, we think that the statue is beautiful. Why do you think so? One of the reason is mathematics. Actually, when the engraver made the statue, he considered the golden ratio. That is to say figure is also important for us to judge beauty or ugly.

How about the beauty standards in japan? In Heian period(1000years ago), the  standards was moon face, white skin, plump, long hair and small eyes. In Edo period(300years ago), the beauty standards was slender face, black hair, white skin, high nose and small mouth. This is a typical example which the standards changed through long history. Therefore, if we meet a beautiful women who lives in Heian period or Edo period, we don’t think that they are really beautiful.

However, I think that we consider face important when we judge beauty or  not beauty. The typical example is a beauty contest. Today, there are many beauty contests all over the world. For example, Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss international, Miss Earth, etc. There are also many beauty contests in japan. Almost of all winners have beauty faces. Of course, we have all of  taste in face. But in general, we can agree these faces are beautiful. In my conclusion, today the most important factor that we judge beauty is face. In other words, the concept of beauty is had control by “FACE”.