Define beauty. Is it just the outlook?or inner self?

Question

Some people may think by having pretty face you are beautiful but those people who have good heart but no looks may have inner beauty?

Answer 1

beauty definetly comes from the inside.i have personally seen people -the so called beautiful ones actually insecure,pessimistic,frustrated,snappy,bossy etc.and ones with a good heart somehow i turn back to them with a smile regardless of looks.

take the example of children-they don care about beauty. someone with warmth and love in their eyeas definetly appeal better than someone with groomed hair, nails,styleetc

so anyday inner self is the true beauty of the person in my opinion-bye!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Beauty isn't tangable...beauty is a person's heart and soul and what they give to people. that's my definition...


Outer beauty is nice yeah? But if your a selfish and nasty it fades away...where as you can be average looking like me but have a good heart, can have a laugh, and love people that shines through far more. I would much rather be a nice person than have a pretty face. I'm not saying that beautiful people (and I question that because "beauty is in the eye of the beholder") can be lovely but they are usually more beautiful because of who they are...am I making any sense or have I drunk too much coffee...LOL

Answer 3

i think we feel differently about "beauty" as we get older. when we are younger we are a bit more superficial about things and maybe moving to fast to see an inner beauty... then as things slow down a little we have a different prospective towards beauty...for example, we can see that a child is cute, but now that i'm older i can see the beauty in the face of that child seeing a dandelion for the first time.
i believe my friend Marty is beautiful because even at 50ish, she still has an innocence and simplicity about her and a childlike lust for life (while i'm just tired all the darn time!grrr)

Answer 4

beauty is something that is mostly external. to understand beauty one should also talk about one other thing that is cuteness. What is difference between cuteness and beauty ? anything or any act is beautiful that at that certain time inspires you, it can be its looks , its quality, or its effect on you. but cuteness is something that is not time or occasion related. a person or thing can be cute because of the combination of so many things. one can find an ugly thing or person also cute, not because of how it looks but how that thing feels to you. Everything or everyone that is beautiful can not be cute. you may hate a real beautiful person and may not even want to see him or her... but you may find an average looking person very cute because there might be so many good things in that person that comforts you and your heart one way or the other. In short beauty is related to eyes mostly when it comes to people and cuteness is related to heart. So its like if you c a beautiful person you can have crush on that person instantly for his or her looks. but latter on when you really know that person you may love him or her or you may loose interest in that person and may not find the same person not so beautiful..not so attractive...not cute at all...not because the looks of that person has changed but now you are looking at that person differently. So beauty is not in a thing its in the eyes of the one who sees it. that is why beautiful to one may not be beautiful to other, same way not beautiful to one might be beautiful to other. Reality about this is that you do not look different to different people.... you are same... but its just the nature of people that they like different different things in life.

Answer 5

WHAT BEAUTY IS TO ME:

Beauty is that which I see, which I feel and which I sense, when I look upon someone or something and I realize I am completely absorbed by it's excellence of quality, features, artistry, truthfulness, and originality and I am made to want...to drink in more of it's pleasurable qualities through the total of my senses.

Be it a work of Art or simply that lovely person of the opposite sex that exudes that sensory pleasantness referred to as "beauty".
Something or someone of beauty becomes habitually pleasing to the eye and to all the senses at once.

Beauty can be radiated from within oneself and projected outwardly to be received, admired and appreciated by others.

And, as nature will have it, what I might perceive as beautiful myself, may not be as such to another observer's eye.

Answer 6

Beautiful in my definiation - should have a good heart and look is never an important factor. if you are beautiful but you don't have a good heart, you are not totally beautiful.

Answer 7

There are as many definitions of beauty as there are beauty products on the shelves. But the common thread is the idea
that beauty is unique to each individual, according to the Clairol What is Beauty? Survey.
The Clairol What is Beauty? Survey, conducted by The Harris Poll surveyed over 3,600 women (age 18-60), men (age 18-60) and teen girls (age 13-17) to explore current perceptions about beauty in America today. What emerged from the survey is a multi-faceted definition of beauty, which reveals that while
beauty is considered important, it is also considered extremely
individualistic. Roughly 90 percent of the adults surveyed believe that every woman creates her own image of beauty.
"The findings of the Clairol survey reveal that traditional definitions of beauty are shifting," says Elizabeth Read, senior director of U.S. consumer haircolor marketing for Clairol. "The days of one-size-fits-all beauty are over."
In fact, when asked to name the most beautiful well-known women today responses included celebrities representing a wide range of shapes, sizes and ethnic backgrounds. The top fifteen included such varied celebrities as Julia Roberts, Sophia Loren, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Included in the top 50 is everyone from Halle Berry to Barbara Walters to Rosie O' Donnell.
"The survey shows that there is no single definition of beauty, it is like a fingerprint unique to every woman. Today's society values beauty with substance," says Judy Gordon, style consultant and founder of TheTrendReport.com. "Knowing how to maximize your own uniqueness is the key to uncovering your individual beauty."
You may not find them behind a make-up counter, but personality (53 percent) and self-confidence (43 percent) are the top two factors that make a woman beautiful, according to the women polled in the Clairol What is Beauty? Survey.

A Beauty All Her Own
Half of the women and girls surveyed believe that their beauty is something they created on their own. And it's personal preference, not media influence that shapes what that beauty is. While three in four women say the media decides what is beautiful, almost an equal number of them say they are only somewhat or not at all influenced by the images they see in the media.

How Beautiful Are We?
Fewer than one in five women (18 percent) feel it is very important to be beautiful, while more than a third of teen girls (36 percent) feel it's very important. However, on an average day most of us feel beautiful (84 percent of women and 79 percent of teen girls claim to feel beautiful at least sometimes). And it's our personal opinion about how we look that matters most
to women (57 percent) and teen girls (49 percent) followed by what our spouses/partners think of how we look (29 percent of women).
On a beauty scale from one to 10, American women and teen girls give themselves an average score of 6.1. Interestingly, the survey showed that women and teens rank their mothers higher than themselves using the same scale -- more than half rated their moms from eight to 10. And when survey respondents were asked to rank the beauty of celebrities, over 90 percent of
women and teen girls ranked celebrities at least an eight. Although women may rate celebrity beauty highly, it is not what they aspire to for themselves. Only 10 percent of women strongly agreed that most women try to look like a
model or celebrity.
"Women are looking to please themselves when it comes to the way we look," says Gordon. "We're not interested in looking a certain way to please someone else, and the report clearly shows that looking like a celebrity is not what women are after. Past stereotypes of beauty no longer apply."

Answer 8

BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

Answer 9

obviously, beauty is the innerself...its your thought all that matters.