What is Real

Beauty?Kim Matuszak

“The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure

to the senses or pleasurably exalts the

mind or spirit.”Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Def: BEAUTY:

Dove’s Campaign for Real

Beauty

First Time Ever.

Six Real Women.Unairbrushed.No Photoshop.

In their underwear.Worldwide Coverage.

Thus,

These six women pushed beyond the

stereotypical view of what ‘beautiful’ is

defined as.

What is real

beauty?

Fat or Skinny?Tan or Pale? Brown

or Blue

Eyes?

Tall or Short?

Blonde, Brunette, or Red?

Scars?

Curves?

Freckles?

Each of the following women are considered beautiful on a basis of their

own cultural opinions.

What do you

think?

ANTMAmerica’

s Next Top

Model

Mursi TribeEthiopia

Harajuku Tokyo, Japan

Karo TribeEt

hiop

ia

Kayan TribeNorthern Thailand

Maouri TribeAotearoa, New Zealand

MauritaniaNorthwest Africa

“Beauty involves awe. We see a

picture, by, say, Matisse; it is beyond words; it simply fills us with wonder. A piece of music by

Mozart makes us feel ‘of course, of course, that is the secret of

life…’”-Muriel Spark

So, in the end, what

is real beauty?

A broadly defined term…

that can only be

interpreted by

the eye of the

beholder.

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