Category: beauty

In the article The Truth About Beauty, the author Amy Alkon talks about how modern beauty sets standards people tend to follow. It feels like our modern world has an alternate universe. Uglytopia, Amy says. Its a place where the content of a womans character is more important than her bra size or being on…

While on the airplane fragments of cloud scatter the ocean, as if painted by an artistic hand, delicate inflections of the brush spreading white over blue. Clouds pooled around the great mountains. The mountains lay in a great line like the spine of the land. Earlier in the morning the blue that stretched into the…

Read these words: You are worthless and fat, you wont make it unless youre skinny. I know its horrifying and cruel, but believe it or not, this is a sentence that is constantly heard around the world in the beauty/modeling industry. Every day people struggle with their body image because of what society wants them…

Rubens ‘Venus Before a Mirror’, is a piece that represents the Renaissance’s love for fuller-figured women. In this case, Ruben has shown a girl with love handles and rosy cheeks, using common symbolic imagery for the Renaissance period such as Cherubs and Mirrors. The mirror represents vanity and desire. The mirror and vanitas are written…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Beauty is subjective, not objective; as everyone defines and sees beauty differently. Now, why does everyone presented in the media look similar? Why is there a beauty standard? How come everyone wants to look like the same few people? What is the rave about double eyelid…

Wildes exceptional example of gothic horror that led to its initial rejection from the morally- rigid society that it was introduced to, carries many comparisons to the image-centered society we find ourselves in today. Dorian Gray becomes an embodiment of the consequence of vanity, which in a Christian society would be considered an example of…

Berger touches on the thought that beauty is with in the eye of the beholder, which really does make the attention the centre of the visible world. The invention of the camera has really changed the perception of the world, and has changed not only what we can see, but also how we see it.…

Child beauty pageants are a rather controversial topic in modern society. Many people believe that they only harm the still unformed children’s psyche, so they insist on their ban. In my opinion, child beauty pageants should not be banned because we see how little girls are amateurs in this beauty business, but after years they…

What is beauty? How can a person tell if something is beautiful or not, if someone is beautiful or not? Some people might find a deep meaningful novel beautiful while some people might find the feeling of seeing their loved one after so long beautiful; there is no rule to define that. Beauty is a…

Service-Dominant Logic in the Hair and Beauty Industry Introduction: The beauty salon is a typical service-based industry. We provide our customers with the most sincere and caring services, and customers will always choose to return to your salon. We aim to understand customers’ needs and to provide satisfactory services. Therefore, service-dominant logic plays a vital…