70's Beauty Standards

has been fulfilled and she has the bluest of blue eyes. Toni Morrison makes sure to include different types of black beauty in the novel, such as Peola who is a poor dark skin girl with a big nose, big lips and unattractive features. On the other hand there is Maureen, a wealthy light skinned girl who is adored by everyone, but is sometimes snobby and mean. This shows how beauty is related to wealth, in the sense that people who are lighter skinned are more likely to get better jobs and live more

Beauty is a subjective term routinely used in the world to describe an object containing a combination of qualities that please the aesthetic senses, commonly sight. Appreciations of beauty often rely on the idea of perfection. In America, people invest so much attention and emphasis on what is popular in Hollywood or fashion magazines. Visuals of ideal beauty attack women daily, making it easy to forget that standards of beauty are “arbitrary and vary greatly” both from one culture to another as

Body image and body positivity are hotly contested and flamboyant issues in today's society and more seemingly technologically-savvy general public. Many people are becoming more and more affected by the demeaning effects social media can have on one's body image. Social media, and especially its overuse, can affect how women view themselves, often times leading to mental health problems and even severe eating disorders. However, differences between body image and self-esteem must be stipulated.

perspective of ‘’beauty ’’ have been distorted over time and have helped shape the western society of today ‘’The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else ’’. We live in a society shaped and conformed by our ideals of beauty; constantly having to live up to the expectations put upon us by the media, social standards and our own body image outlooks. Yet, overtime, throughout Australia’s history, the perspective on beauty has changed; from

order to bring light to racism and social standards. During the novels and documentary the reader or listener is directly impacted by the way the main characters view themselves and the changes they are starting to witness over time. Throughout “The Bluest Eye” the author describes beauty a lot during the novel. Having said that beauty in the 1950-1970’s was the typical blond hair blue eyes, Toni Morrison brings attention to racism and social standards after the Great Depression. There are major

victorian age. The 20th century probably had some of the biggest changes, ranging from the flappers of the roaring twenties, to the hippies of the 1960s and 70s. All of this is what had led up to what we know of cosmetology today. Proof of cosmetology was first shown to appear in Egypt in 3000 bc. “The egyptians were first to cultivate beauty in an extravagant fashion…” (De Soto-Fitzgerald 8). Some of the materials the egyptians used to create their cosmetics were minerals, insects, berries, leaves

general women?s magazine and advertisements for beauty products use Photoshop regularly and emphatically to make woman look thin, blemish free, and generally aligned with the familiar American standard of female beauty. By featuring digitally altered woman on their covers and within throughout their pages, these media outlets are promoting this unattainable standard of beauty to woman all over the country on mass. By using Photoshop to erase any fat that might exist on a woman?s arms or thighs and

races have different experiences. Women of color are told everyday how they have to fit in with the beauty norms that

feminism. When women started to fight for their rights, it changed everything from the way companies advertised to the way men thought of their wives, who were most likely at home. The ongoing battle for women’s rights influenced the nation in the 1960’s due to the struggle in women’s

Highlighting this fact in body acceptance programs would help open the eyes of children struggling with this issue. For example, in the 1920’s, attractiveness was seen in a different light than it is now. Showing no cleavage was considered an art (Hart np). Being petite and having no curves was also seen as such. Moving on to the 1940’s, the typical standards had completely flipped flopped. Society now preferred women who were taller than most (Hart np). During this era, tall skinny women were perceived