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Beauty Tips: How Beauty Really Started
Let us look back in
ancient history and relive the world’s ever changing view towards the human
aesthetics.
1.
Renaissance Era
Thin
was never in during the 1400s to the
early 16th century.
Through the pages of your old history book, you will most likely see full
figured women on famous paintings. If thin-stick models are the ones shone in
runway today, curvaceous, fair-skinned women were muses of world-renowned
painters in this era. One painter who loves his ladies with some meat in them
is Italian painter Titian.
2. Victorian
Era: From 1837 to 1901This
was a painful period for women to be attractive because it was all about having
the small waistline. Corsets and layered petticoats were
made popular to emphasize a skinny waist and a large derrière. Their skirts
would have hoops and bustles to create an illusion of having a big butt.
3.
Late 19th century
This
period was all about the recognition of a woman’s curves. Her breasts are highlighted
but with no sight of a cleavage. Her waist was cinched and ankles were shown.
4.
1920s
Women
were told to play games, involve in dance classes and even exercise thus, the
boyish frame emerged. Some would even bind their chest for a flatter, slimmer
silhouette.Make-up
choices were bold to emphasize the eyes and the lips.
5.
1940-1950s
“Femininity”
best describes beauty during these two decades. Women were back to embracing
their curves but with a healthier, more body conscious point of view. The hourglass
figure was then popularized (look at the ad below). Hair was starting to be a girl’s crowning glory
and was beautified through waves and curls.
6.
1960s
The
slim, rail thin look was in. No more corsets and pointed bras because the body
was, based on historian Joan
Jacobs Brumberg, “becomes something for you to control from the inside,
through diet and exercise, instead of exterior control through the corset.”
7.
1970-1980sBeing women were weight conscious and made to
appear toned. As for hair and makeup, the line “a little goes a long way” was
never correct because everything should be over the top.8.
1990sThis decade introduced the “grunge” or the unkempt
look and being thin was still in.
9.
2000s -
presentNow, beauty is based on self-expression and freedom, and can
be achieved in an instant. If women wanted to have fuller chests, they’d
undergo plastic surgery. To look young, women either eat right and exercise or
they get Botox for immediate results.[sources:
stylecaster.com and
news.discovery.com]
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