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Our moms have taught us so much over the years, and let’s face it, we continue to learn from them to this day. For many of us, our beauty journeys began with our moms as we watched and learned ...
From the use of bird feces in a facial to inserting metal rods in legs to be taller, women and men all over the world are willing to do a lot for beauty. Beauty Around the World: Traditions and Ideals
Elyse Thoms is a rapper, creative director, makeup artist, model, painter and photographer whose beauty ritual is a lifelong quest to getting back to herself and embracing her natural hair, skin ...
Fashion is known to be a form of expression throughout many cultures, just like the Mexican American culture. Over the decades Mexican American women's fashion evolved to celebrate beauty and fashion standards of the day. However, such evolution wasn't often well seen by society, instead it was often deemed non-normative or un-American.
Skin color contrast has been identified as a feminine beauty standard observed across multiple cultures. [7] Women tend to have darker eyes and lips than men, especially relative to the rest of their facial features, and this attribute has been associated with female attractiveness and femininity, [7] yet it also decreases male attractiveness according to one study. [8]
As America shifted into the 1960s and 1970s, the afro became a popular hairstyle and required a new set of beauty demands. The afro became a symbol of naturalness, and rose with the "Black is Beautiful Movement," as well as Black nationalism. Johnson Product Company created various hair care products to upkeep the Afro look.
Aeta man from the island of Luzon with a scarified form of indigenous Philippine tattoo, c. 1890s Aboriginal Australian with scarification of the back, 1911. Scarification has been traditionally practiced by darker skinned cultures, possibly because it is usually more visible on darker skinned people than tattoos. [2]
African American beauty takes into consideration the intersectionality of African Americans and how this intersectionality has affected the representation of African Americans in media, which plays a significant role in communicating what society's beauty standards are. [11] [5]