Beauty: The Unobtainable Dream

According to the Dictionary of Psychology, beauty is defined as “any characteristic in objects which appeals to the esthetic sense in its purest form”(“Beauty”). Trends have grown from several ideals over the centuries. This lends to the idea that mankind is never satisfied with reality. People are constantly updating fashions to keep a look fresh or edgy. In this sense, physical beauty is an ever-changing process, dependent on ethnicity, geographic location, and time period. …

…that “bigger” women can be beautiful. This new system of pro-esteem modeling is a step towards a more realistic beauty for the future. Beauty is an undefined standard; it is an ever-changing look. While people from the beginning of time have been striving for beauty, each cultures’ standards are different. No matter how much the standards of beauty have changed over time, true physical beauty, according to a current ideal, is simply an unreachable standard.