maybe that’s why the 90’s supermodels felt like rockstars. The girls now seem like they’re pretending to be beautiful rather than actually turning it into motion
@@60wwedivabut you can see a copy pasted girl 100 times a day and men too but I would say to a lesser extent due to having less marketable apparel. Everyone wears the same boring things.
@@estherstian Japanese fashion designer. His stuff mixes traditional japanese garments with avant-garde designs. His runway looks are really cool in my opinion
“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?”
I've always thought beauty and love were intertwined like dna strands or something, so many people seem to think that being beautiful is what makes one worthy of love, which to an extent holds truth, but yeah its equally true that love is the lense that allows beauty to be seen in anyone
Tiktok trends make it even worse. If you look at girls who follow clean girl or That girl or old money aesthetic, their profiles look so similar to each other. I have looked at 20 different profiles who look like they are clone of each other, just wearing beige or white clothes and no color in life :(
And to the larger subject, I have felt this way for years. I don’t have a very common looking face. Not the mainstream look for sure, but I’d hate to look any different. I love what makes me unique and I love seeing what makes others unique. As an artist, I hate how similar everyone looks these days
Character. I had a dream about 3 years ago maybe longer where my family gifted me with a rhinoplasty I didn’t know about and I woke up with a different nose. It was honestly traumatizing lol. Then I realized if I woke up one day with my dream face I don’t think I’d ever feel pretty or happy. Over the next few months I easily fell in love with my face. I can’t imagine looking like everyone else.
In addition to that I think that seeing ourselves in the things we create is what gives them this palpable feeling of soul..whereas something created from the machine can feel impossibly immaculate but separate from us.
i was just telling my friend that i love a face that you have to LOOK at…. there’s nothing interesting about the “influencer face”, and they’re all so afraid of looking ugly that it only doubles the boredom 😭 one of my favorite artists is fka twigs, who not only has such a distinct set of features, but also such an alien way of styling herself… it makes me so eager to just seek her out and see what she does next. like, more of that!! i beg!!!
YES! I included her in my story when I was ranting about this topic a few days ago. She is an ideal role model for embracing your own unique beauty and personal style.
As someone who is not good at faces, this era of beauty industrialisation is very frustrating. It looks like everyone just glued the same face on their own face and called it beauty. Absolutely not. If my eye can't be hooked on a distinctive facial feature (or disharmony), there's no way I'll remember your face. How many times did i ask myself: "wait... am i following you? Why? Who tf are you again?" On social media? I don't even follow influencers, yet it is so widely spread that the "influencer face" is everywhere. It's... normal. It's fucked up, but everybody wants a piece of the social media money cake. Authenticity doesn't sell anymore, and everybody is a poster child for some products these days. That's why it's important to recognise beauty in real everyday people. It feels like we are the in-between generation who can separate online and offline faces, who can tell true from fake. I wonder if future generations will hate all human flaws and anihilate them, or on the contrary, if they'll crave for them as they struggle to grasp their own natural animal nature. Only time will tell.
I won't sit here and say that pretty isn't pretty. Sure you can have the fox face and be skinny and gorgeous. Whatever. But when that's all it comes to, I'm seriously just thirsting for some variety.. for something that even disturbs me and pulls me out of slumber.
The industrialization of beauty is ironically beautiful. Because it plunges the ego into terror with the truth that "you aren't really real, ya'know. You're just parts." The destruction of distinction is the way back to divinity. And the signs of this process terrifies those who've convinced themselves to be real.
All the hottest girls have "flaws", unique irregularities about them. My ex had a bit of a crooked nose and it was the sexiest thing I could think of. Uniqueness and individuality is the overlooked factor in beauty today, so many people buy into these bland standards that work for one person then decide "THAT'S BEAUTY" and try to emulate it, it's soooooo so boring, no risks taken or self honoured. Say for example the slender button nose so many girls seem to want - I don't really find that very beautiful at all. I like girls with big noses actually haha... Beauty's full potential is realised differently for every individual, we shouldn't all be trying to look the same, that's so so stupid and such a disrespect to the unique beings we all are.
One of my friend’s in high school had a ‘’snaggle tooth’’; an extra tooth that grew over her top left canine tooth. Her husband used to tell her all the time how much he absolutely ADORED her snaggle tooth. And it’s true. I’m SO glad she never got it removed. It’s perfectly ‘’imperfect’’, and uniquely HER. This also reminds me of Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore- he had some weird teeth when he was young. I loved him anyway. But he had them fixed and it’s like what made him so cool got erased. 😑☹
This made my day because I have a big nose and I also appreciate uniqueness and eccentricity in people. Big noses are not ugly it’s just different and I think men with big noses are extra handsome too, many races have different facial features all unique God given beauty. I’ve had other women make fun of my nose but truth is I have dated some seriously handsome men so I feel beautiful even though I was bullied I don’t care what anyone thinks. Only insecure people have to put others down!
Period. If I gave all my drawings a slim nose they would have same face syndrome and not be unique,that's why I always wanna Draw asymmetry, adding random dots, play with the sizes of each item in the face, crooked features, different eye sockets, crooked teeth, different types of bewbs and I used to draw a lot of big noses because I thought they're beautiful 😂😂 ❤ they're just such a wow factor in the face.
I like to compare the "beautiful" people to a formal French garden such as the ones at Versailles: manicured down to a fraction of an inch, perfect in symmetry, and pleasing to the eye. The formal French garden seems nice enough until you see the Scottish highlands or the Grand Canyon, and then there can be no comparison.
As a student of History, there is indeed a clear distinction of beauty from a well-manicured garden and a natural feature - both oare beautiful in its distinct manner.
That's why it exists a distinction between Beauty, what is agreable, familiar, well maintained and the Sublime, what gives us this feeling of awe, almost fear and yet excitement
Modern buildings are so boring, it makes me sad everytime I see a new one, where could stand a master piece, now stand just rectangle grid... Here in Prague we have many old buildings, each one is unique and I could spend hours looking at each one, it tells a story, and every time you look at it you can discover new detail.. Seems like many crafts are becoming extinct, its heartbreaking.
it's kind of hard to replicate older buildings like in ancient babylonia for example, and it's true that they didn't come without their own issues - like slaves often being used to build them. but it is indeed an impressive human feat to design the seemingly impossible and build it in real life back then, where they didn't have electricity and relied on manpower. maybe if modern buildings integrated only aesthetic elements like in said ancient times, our city scapes would look nicer without complicating the base structure (electric connectivity, plumbing, heating etc).
Where I live in the US, every building looks like a grey square or a sheet metal shed with huge wide-open parking lots, and they're all chain stores and restaurants that don't want you hanging around. I never want to go anywhere.
There are wonderful ways to make modern architecture beautiful, such as the cyberpunk aesthetic which is one of my favourites. I love tall neon lights and skyscrapers. However, things like brutalist arch is horrible
Everything said in this video is gospel--and I would like to add that the consuming desire to have the kendall jenner spotless perfect beauty is honestly terrifying. It is terrifying because of how many people try to use their dollars to purchase this clean, spotless beauty and, ironically, lack discipline and actual substance to their personhood. Kendall Jenner is nice to look at, but I have rarely ever thought of her past the first 5 seconds of seeing a magazine cover. You know who I have thought of without prompt? Helena Bonham Carter. Barbra Streisand. Dita von Teese. I honestly struggle to accept that I could ever bring a child into this world if society keeps neglecting the richness and demanding nature of beauty. The richness of imperfection and the grit of being human make the pursuit (and end embrace) of beauty worth the effort (outside a plastic surgeon's operating table).
YES! The PURSUIT of beauty! The effort that goes into let's say.. glamour, which is the mysticism and illusion we achieve through things like makeup, clothing, perfume, performance...etc. This perfection at some point replaces the need for the great feminine rituals and ceremonies. The things that honor our femininity and our individual beauty.
When you said these women seem "manufactured", I gasped. Its like smth clicked in my mind. All reminded me of Benjamin's theory on Art's aura and its dissolve after mass accessibility to high art. There is no longer an authentic feminine beauty becuz of the access media granted to people and how we can see beautiful women anytime we want and these women or I should say for a lack of a better word *images* of these women are becoming repetitive to the point that their beauty is not impressive, the aura of a beautiful woman is what we need. Have u seen such woman before whose aura is all consuming and magnetizing, you keep wondering if you will see such beauty after such sacred display? Her aura is incredible that u will keep thinking of her even after years of seeing many faces...
@@ilsagita5257i still think of Natasha Poly's John Galliano 2007 teary black make up, unbridled, unhinged t-girl swag serve. Art pieces elevated to quasi-subject performance. She embodied mater dolorosa in her brash motion, her aching expressions, the dried tears clashing with the prismatic spray in the hair tendrils brushing her face. Such beauty really lingers. Beauty that doesn't care to pursue prim-trimmed perfection. Beauty that wallows in its erraticness and unruly despair. Beauty in destruction. It makes everything else seem dull and quite a bore by comparison.
There's a bollywood actress named kajol, she's a legendary actress in south asia and consistently considered one of the most beautiful women of the 90s, she shared a piece of advice her grandmother gave about beauty. "Kajol you know why im beautiful? I'm beautiful because i have a big nose." This small imperfection, this uniqueness, is what made her beautiful. Brooke shields has thick and bushy eyebrows, kate moss's eyes are far apart, bella hadid has a square jaw, Rihanna has a large forehead. All these imperfections however are what give these women their unique look, their beauty, their individual merit, it differentiates them from every other girl
“They are so beautiful that they are not beautiful anymore.” That is so true. Celebrating my teeth gap and my beautifully melanated skin is what make me one of one: a unique beauty
I love teeth gaps, wide forheads, square jaws, big noses, whatever just differences. We are the wild gardens of life, all are unique and beautiful for it.
So true... i was an ugly duckling growing up, hated myself, my irregularities, my skin tone... now after so many years of self hatred, i can honestly say i love myself and the way I look with all of my heart, flaws and all
i was thinking a while back about actors and how sterile they look. even with masculine beauty, if you think of the marvel superhero compared to say, a shirtless clark gable in it happened one night. they might be more chiselled now, but they look like they're made of plastic because everything is taken to such an extreme. i think of food and perfume too, and how people shy away completely from bitter or tart flavours towards processed food which is uniformly perfect in taste, or the popularity of gourmand scents that all have the same cloying artificial sweetness. it's all about marketability at the expense of real beauty and substance.
I sometimes feel bad about my flaws or what I'd like to get done but I'm also glad that I can't really think of anyone who looks like me, celebrity or not.
@@HeavenSentHoneygreat idea actually that's one of my motivation to paint every weekend I want to reach that skill set as quickly as possible to draw the people I love my friends, family and anyone who keeps worry about their looks
@@HeavenSentHoney I was so blessed to have a random fine arts photographer ask me to model for her. She created some beautiful prints that I look back on fondly.
That's why the cross is the most beautiful symbol, it's torture, cruelty, hate, suffering and murder, the ugliest thing to look at if taken at face value but reframed and revealing the spiritual capacity for passionate love which humans have.
The japanese aesthetics have a specific word for natural beauty that includes dirty and flaw. In fact when japanese came into contact with western art for the first time they couldn't understand the obsession of ultra perfection and hyper fixation of certain qualities at the exclusion of other areas.
What's ironic is that "modern" beauty is all a blur now, one face indistinguishable from the next...which in the past would've been described as average, common, sometimes ugly. You are right when you said that natural born perfected beauty was a miracle due to its rarity. I remember thinking to myself how I see so many "beautiful" people now than when I was coming of age in the 90s watching TV and being enthralled by supermodels. It's a strange phenomenon to witness how the modern definition of beauty is manufactured, but also made me appreciate my ethnic, dare I say, "exotic" looks more and thankful I didn't get a nose job after highschool. As I've gotten older I've noticed that my features have refined and settled into my face. Excellent video, Celine!
I've been thinking these things for ages, you see basically the same exact face repeated a thousand times online. It's so uninspiring. Hyper symmetrical, big lips, small nose, cat eyes and "perfect" plastic looking hair. It's creepy and ironic. Everybody wants to be special, a "special beauty" and achieve it by moulding themselves into the same person. It's also entirely superficial, there is no personality. This is for women who sadly don't have much going on under the surface, or much intelligence to offer.
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg I actually think it’s more than that. There is an element of that but there is definitely just a lot of that stuff everywhere. It’s not my preference at all, quite the opposite but all I need to do is put “makeup look” into the search engine and it shows me 99% of that type of face. Even if I try to encourage it to show me smth different it always put those faces right there, especially if you’re looking up anything linked to feminine searches.
Personally I go through my feed blocking and saying “not interested” and I have to do this frequently because the shit I don’t want to see, like the beauty this video is criticizing, keeps coming back up like an incurable disease.
@@HeavenSentHoney This is one of the reasons why I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. It’s refreshing and such a relief to see an artistic person who actually uses their intelligence and thinks critically about such topics!
@@HeavenSentHoney so just say you don't know how to change the algorithm no need to make video essays on something you don't like I disagree with you simply because I know how to change my algorithms See i have types of gurls I go after if I go to explore and don't see that type of gurl I go like and comment on the gurls i like then the algorithm fixes itself Not interested doesn't do anything really you have to do it manually for example if you want to see all natural gurls with natural hair just start commenting and liking those pages more it's not that hard
This is one of the most sincerely thoughtful monologues I've heard from *any* human being in a very long time. A calm and genuine reflection with just the slightest trace of provocation is incredibly beautiful to me because it's so rare.
I've always loved it when a person has a bigger than usual nose and also if the teeth have 'character'. They seem to evoke parts of a person's personality.
So well said! I have to say that as a vintage seller, there's a magnetic pull customers feel towards handmade items. Irregular stitching in hand embroidered pieces, an off center patch on the back of a jacket...these items vibrate at a higher frequency. They trigger a positive emotional response in a way their mass produced counterparts CAN'T.
I think it's more fillers and photoshop, even with retinol no one really looks like that underneath. Sometimes I get upset about my zits even though my skin is mostly clear and so much improved from how it was a few years ago but then I think about how the Kardashians have zits underneath their makeup and if people who have the time/money/incentive to devote their entire lives to looking as good as possible still can't get 10000% clear skin I don't have a chance and it really doesn't matter anyway
i think it’s the filters. i use tretinoin and it will never make my face look that smooth and unreal. i still have pores and tiny bumps and imperfections, and although it has been smoothed significantly, it still looks human (and healthy)
thank you so much for this. you are a goddess for sharing this important message! beauty lies in our perceived "imperfections" ... what makes us different is what makes us beautiful. nowadays everyone wants to get stuff done just to look like everyone else. where did our unique spark go? we all have that if we can just embrace ourselves exactly as we are, messiness & all. i needed to hear this today, very grateful for your channel. thank you for simply being! something powerful i remind myself often is... look at mother nature. nature is not perfect ~ a twisted tree, brown spots on a leaf, flowers growing in every which way... but yet she is infinitely gorgeous. we don't pick apart her "imperfections"... we just recognize that she is beautiful just for being.
Natures beauty and well as ours is a sum of the parts. We hyper focus on things we must fix, and forget they are part of a whole, and that others don’t even see what we worry about. Even in neuroscience it is proven that we do not see all the details, we see a silhouette or general impression, it’s a reductionism that helps us not overload ourselves. So imperfections aside, what does the whole of us feel like? What is our energy or impression like to others? How do people feel when they are around us?
This can even be extended to AI generated "art", and this would prove that there is no way for AI to replace artists. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...
This is very interesting to me. I find people staring at me and im a bit like why because although i am beautiful i have a broken nose and other assymetry and obvious flaws. There are women much more symmetrical that don't get as stared at. It's the ugly omg lol
It sounds like you're striking. People who are gorgeous and very symmetrical (esp if they have this IG face) don't stand out so much. But if you're very attractive in a more unique way you're more likely to draw glances. I don't think I'm so attractive now, but when I was a bit younger I used to get a lot of stares and people on the street telling me I was beautiful etc. I've had a couple people tell me I had their favourite face they'd ever seen! But then as a teen (teens are typically going to be more honest than adults) I had multiple people say I was ugly! I know I have some quite unique features and I think that draws a whole variety of responses to my face and also means perhaps people look at me more than they might someone who is super conventionally attractive.
Very interesting, in France this idea of using your flaws as your most interesting assets is really part of the culture, particularly in Paris. Also as you speak of that, if one would consider Magic, or Life Force, Chi, Prana, Ether... The Source of life, it can only be transmitted from a Living Being, and the Most inspired, present, aligned, incarnated or Conscious one would say, this Being is (Animal, person, plant or even the Earth), The more what they produce is not just produce (As Produce is a transformation, like Human secretions), but a creation. A Creation being the fruit of Several Energies coming together to become something New, Male + Female, Inspiration + Skills and so on... Than you for beautifully directing our attention back to the Living Spiritual Raw Sense of beauty!
We want the devine, and the flaws that only add to the story of art or the person. I remember going to MFA in Boston as a kid, it fascinated me to see the paint brush hairs embedded in these immaculate paintings older than time itself. Beautiful art video, u hav a way of lifting the spirit with your insight ty 🌹
People used to stop me on the street thinking I was Jennifer Grey. Same age, same hair, same body type. Then she got her nose “fixed.” Perfect example of don’t mess with what makes you unique.
Zendaya is the definition of classic beauty. Her whole face is actually the opposite of today’s beauty standards if you really look. Hooded eye lids not cat eye, Flatish nose, and a lovely unique face shape with thin-medium sized lips. She’s considered rare beauty in my eyes like classic beauty
As a guy I might be kind of out of place in this comment section, but whatever. I really couldn't agree more. What I myself have always known to be true, but been unable to put into words, you have just articulated for me. So thanks, I guess. Honestly, I've had both guys and gals come up to me and ask me, why I'm attracted to a woman whom, in their mind, is not nearly pretty enough for me. Whereas I catch myself looking after her just a little longer than is appropriate. In fact, to this day, whenever I watch Harry Potter, particularly a scene with Lavender Brown in it, I actually start jittering. I cannot take my eyes off of her. If I was a student of Hogwarts and she stood in front of me, this calm, collected, stoic and generally unapproachable looking guy I usually am, would turn all flustered and nervous. Fuckin' hell I love her! Not literally, you know what I mean. Anyway, great video.
You're not out of place here. Beauty is not solely a characteristic of women or solely something which matters for women, and it should not be spoken of like it is. I don't know why some people think we should all be competing to date the same person. As the person whom everyone was always after, it is extremely uncomfortable because most of the attention is creepy or insincere (and no one stopped long enough to ask who *I* preferred). And the whole way people idealize men who date supermodels/ the conventional beauty is 🤢. A beautiful woman isn't a prize for a man to collect wtf.
@@kiranjitKaur61 a prize is an object, a person is not an object. A woman is a person, so she is not an object: therefore she is not a prize. My sister, you can love a man and also know you are equal to him in the eyes of God. When you do marry, do not make your husband into a golden idol for there is no God but God.
@@tobe-you-tube6612 Likewise, the quotation marks are there for a reason. They imply that I’m quoting someone. Clearly I cannot find something both ugly and beautiful. Still, both are subjective and that was my point.
I'm a fashion designer and have 2 rules when it comes to picking models: 1. Must be at least 18. 2. No plastic surgery/ fillers/ botox I don't think the beauty standard or Instagram face is beautiful. I think our unique characteristics and ethnic traits are beautiful.
man you just said exactly what I’ve been trying to put into words “so beautiful they’re NOT beautiful anymore” I get exactly what you mean the beauty standards are so messed up I think everyone has unique and beautiful pictures you don’t have to be a perfect Barbie to be beautiful
Simon Doonan talked about this with regards to "sexy" in his book, Eccentric Glamour. He called out that being sexy and seductive have become been completely replaced by looking like a porn star.
7:02 There is no need to blame scientists and disregard scientifically proven studies to also accept more nuances to the matter. It is completely true that we naturally find symmetry to be beautiful. like composition, like colors... there's physiological reasons for that. But that doesn't mean that's the only element that defines our attraction to something or someone. It's just one of them. That's why also imperfections can be attractive, because uniqueness is also attractive. The combination of both things in different degrees is what in the end makes something attractive
Oh my god the disney princess nose and big eyes combo used in the ai filters drives me crazy. And people use it like it’s all just cute and good completely looking over how it takes away their prominent human features
So agree. As an artist, I can vouch. What makes something beautiful is not a list of measurements and features. For as much as I typically abhor what is labeled as ‘’modern art’’ the whole movement got started because it was trying to show you can’t pigeon hole art, though there ARE perimeters. It’s just that the perimeters are not fixed. Beauty has something original AND real to it.
This speaks to the japanese aesthetic concept and philosophy of Wabi-Sabi. That beauty can only be captured in the occasional imperfection of a thing, be it a hat a rose or a face. Only distinctive character can define beauty.
Symmetry is psychologically, harmonious to peoples brains. That is a fact, but somebody can have a giant big nose that is symmetrical on their face. I’m using myself as an example. Hahaha
i genuinely believe that the idea of symmetry/perfection = beauty is closely related to european art. Particularly renaissance and gothic architecture (gothic architecture being my personal fav of architectural styles). The discipline of art history harps on renaissance, gothic architecture and greek/roman art (aka the classics) being considered perfect and unfortunately it’s translated into how we construct beauty standards and scientific understanding of beauty. I love all these styles and periods of art btw I just think that the way they’ve been interpreted and recontextualized has definitely changed the way we view ourselves and unfortunately art itself for the worse (see: modern/contemporary art) but that’s a different conversation. I really enjoyed this video btw!
I think that in the end, everything is a niche. There are guys who only like these desperate emulations of perfection because they are looking for something that looks like an idealization, and there are guys who prefer an average look because it is something that is easier to identify with and seems more sincere or whatever. There's also that guy who just pretends to be really picky but deep down he/she just doesn't like the stuff that much. There's room for everything
This is a channel I didn't know I needed. Your messages evoke deep contemplation of the choices we make in our lives and encourages us to reflect on the meaning and power of beauty. Thank you so much for all you do!
Omg you’ve just put into words the thoughts I’ve been having for months now. When people look too “perfect” they tend to sterile and un-alluring. Like they lost their humanity. An all too perfect face ends up being too distant, cold, and the lacking warmth that makes a face or body appear actually real if that makes any sense. Perfection is anti seductive
@@kiranjitKaur61 I’m not talking about a natural “perfect” face, plus there’s actually no such thing as that, but I’m talking about a “perfect face” being achieved through man interventions like plastic surgery. After a while and after one too many procedures, that person starts to look uncanny. You might not call them ugly, but you can’t call them beautiful either, because something just seems “off”. And that’s what’s anti seductive. Pay attention to context to which a comment is made before refuting it..
Beauty is energy. We desire the beloved because we feel love around them, because of their energy toward us and ours to them. Its why you feel your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world no matter her age. Beauty is in the 👁️ of the Beloved. 🌹
Discovered your channel yesterday, watched a couple of your videos, and this right here is definitely my favorite so far. Extremely intelligent points made, and I learned new things. Thanks for the education.
It's not just blemish and mutation. it's the right blemish, the right mutation. A beauty mark in the right place is considered so, but acne is widely not. There is a thin line between beautiful and ugly soemtimes of flaw and defining characteristics.
Thats what ive been saying and thinking for so long 😭. All the influencers and celebrities have become a similar type of face. Still pretty but something u see often. Beauty is rarity and i dont mean that in a only very few people are actually beautiful but the less you look like others the more appeal i think u possess. Those ai types of beautys are ofc asthetically pleasing to look at but you wont give them a second look beacuse we have gotten used to it so much. Theres a reason why runways used to demand "differnt" faces beacuse beauty is uniquness, beauty is differnt, beauty is something you dont see in others. True beauty for me is when a person has so unique looks that i cant help but look again again trying to figure them out like a puzzle. I also think if your beauty (every persons beauty is personal and unique to them) matches your personality somehow it adds to the allure but thats for some other time. This is all my perspective tho and i love your videos they are so thought provoking. ❤❤❤❤
It’s so interesting to really look at someone, anyone. Take in their features individually and all together. At first they look fine, then somewhat ugly, then beautiful again.
Because imperfections are like a mark of one's individuality. If everyone's beautiful in the same way, with the exact same characteristics, then we lose interest. It's one's individuality that can be attractive and beautiful to some.
I've always felt like I was without words to describe the empty feeling when I these heavily altered faces. Even when you think about artificial intelligence creating a attractive face it always has similar features no matter what ethnic background. I can see these social media starlets and acknowledge their conventional attractiveness, but something feels inherently void like. That strange vapidness to their beauty is actually me picking up on that sameness that manufactured like quality. It's funny I remember a few years ago people talking about Instagram face. Manufactured is truly the perfect usage here. You are so incredibly well-spoken. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this!
Your wise beyond reason and I love you. I also think there's some deep and artistic meaning behind this message being said in the dark and indirectly, I'm just not sure what it is yet.
I'm not even a fan, but Kim Kardashian before she underwent plastic surgeries was so naturally drop dead gorgeous it was unreal. So sad that she voluntarily became a mass produced AI clone instead.
Yes! Sex appeal goes out the window when a person is so beautiful. I find women like Vanessa Paradis, Helena Bonham Carter, Sevdaliza, FKA Twigs, and Erykah Badu incredibly attractive and sexy. A touch of strange and the macabre are needed.
There was a classmate of mine who I was lab partners with but other girls would kind of talk about her. They thought she didn't wear trendy clothes, she picked at her lips, she was to tall, etc. This was the height of the 2000s, so the beauty standard was different. Anyways she did modeling for Bay Area Chinese garment fashions. Like in the scene for Asian traditional garnet she was sought after for her looks and ability to walk the catwalk. She would do editorial photos and she looked unearthly beautiful. My fellow classmates were stunned when they found the photos on MySpace.
Agree, yes, at 1:38 "they are so common, and similar." Too perfect. I noticed a while ago that this current group of beauty enhancers must not realize how the look they are creating is, basically spot on, the one of the 1970s blow up dolls! Rally, same lips, same expression. Egads. I first noticed it in the early 2000s when everyone was going for perfect teeth, big, white and straight. like a mouthful of teeth. While, if natural is stunning. I knew a lady with a naturally stunning white smile, (from Sweden.) I met her in Chicago and she was dismayed because people no longer commented on how rare it was but, instead, asked her who did it for her. :(
I remember once I had cut off all my hair and men mostly , asked me why I would DO THAT ? Why would I purposely make myself less attractive?And I remember feeling they just didn’t get it , and answering what I thought was obvious which was “Why would I settle with being “beautiful“ when I would much rather have a shot at being fabulous? I had , &still have always had this weird problem where , if I create something that too many people like , I’ll immediately question myself :”What did I do wrong?” because in my mind if it’s so good & groundbreaking &innovative , most people shouldn’t understand it at first , much less like it . It’s a trait I just have . And I will never think differently . It’s almost like , I don’t think I want anything that money can buy, because if it’s truly unique , it has no price tag . I loathe consumerism & commercially successful products , people , music , whatever , to no end . Well not loathe , I’m sorry , loathe is too strong of a feeling , I just don’t bother actually . Thanks for your video on Eddie and muses btw.
I was born with the Barbie nose and I've had ppl tell me all the time they're jealous or that I "won the genetics lottery" with it lol but I've always disliked that it's a Babrie nose bc it just seems... generic lol Distinctive noses give someone's face so much character and thusly so much beauty to me. It's part of what makes someone interesting looking instead of "generic preset human being number 3." So if you have a nose that doesn't look like a Barbie nose, cherish it. Like the perfect rug, it really brings your face together.
this is so true, I used to want to be perfect, part of this beauty idea of perfect symmetry and proportion because it felt like that's what people like seeing, it's such a warped idea honestly. I used to hold these gorgeous people up on a high pedestal and devalue myself and any of my other qualities, my kindness, my compassion, strength, my humanness after all. Now after a while when I look at gorgeous people, I don't see them as special. Some of them I don't even find beautiful, just something off/"ugly" about their energy or the way they carry themselves, although the symmetry and perfection is there. perfection is empty without a soul, without humanness.
maybe that’s why the 90’s supermodels felt like rockstars. The girls now seem like they’re pretending to be beautiful rather than actually turning it into motion
No the only reason those gurls felt like rock stars to us is because there was no Internet it's that simple that's the end of the story
@@ashleybanks-wm4cglol you're agreeing with the op according to the content of this video.
@ashleybanks-wm4cg arguably, you couldnt find another trya, cindy brinkley, naomi or or cindy crawford just walking around back then.
@@60wwedivabut you can see a copy pasted girl 100 times a day and men too but I would say to a lesser extent due to having less marketable apparel. Everyone wears the same boring things.
They don't feel beautiful because beauty has been assaulted and commodified
i feel like i just got talked off a ledge, thank you for the sanity
Anytime ❤
“Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.”
- Yohji Yamamoto
who's him??
@@estherstian Japanese fashion designer. His stuff mixes traditional japanese garments with avant-garde designs. His runway looks are really cool in my opinion
“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?”
where is this quote from?
Ha! Did that show in high school
@@n.nai.i Roger's and Hammerstein 's Cinderella. In the movie, only the prince sings it. Onstage, the queen sings a slightly revised version.
I've always thought beauty and love were intertwined like dna strands or something, so many people seem to think that being beautiful is what makes one worthy of love, which to an extent holds truth, but yeah its equally true that love is the lense that allows beauty to be seen in anyone
Why are you so confused.
Tiktok trends make it even worse. If you look at girls who follow clean girl or That girl or old money aesthetic, their profiles look so similar to each other. I have looked at 20 different profiles who look like they are clone of each other, just wearing beige or white clothes and no color in life :(
TikTok is a cancer
@@HeavenSentHoneyYES!!!
@@HeavenSentHoney TikTok is the death clock.
That’s why handmade is so valued. It’s just different and people can tell even if they can’t describe why
And to the larger subject, I have felt this way for years. I don’t have a very common looking face. Not the mainstream look for sure, but I’d hate to look any different. I love what makes me unique and I love seeing what makes others unique. As an artist, I hate how similar everyone looks these days
❤F cool I want craft!
Character.
I had a dream about 3 years ago maybe longer where my family gifted me with a rhinoplasty I didn’t know about and I woke up with a different nose. It was honestly traumatizing lol. Then I realized if I woke up one day with my dream face I don’t think I’d ever feel pretty or happy. Over the next few months I easily fell in love with my face. I can’t imagine looking like everyone else.
@@LowSlungBadBitchlove it
In addition to that I think that seeing ourselves in the things we create is what gives them this palpable feeling of soul..whereas something created from the machine can feel impossibly immaculate but separate from us.
i was just telling my friend that i love a face that you have to LOOK at…. there’s nothing interesting about the “influencer face”, and they’re all so afraid of looking ugly that it only doubles the boredom 😭
one of my favorite artists is fka twigs, who not only has such a distinct set of features, but also such an alien way of styling herself… it makes me so eager to just seek her out and see what she does next. like, more of that!! i beg!!!
YES! I included her in my story when I was ranting about this topic a few days ago. She is an ideal role model for embracing your own unique beauty and personal style.
Yes and Rihanna too so striking and always had such an original look.
One of those faces you speak of "wanting to look at" for me is TILDA SWINTON.
That rihanna is an awful radical rather and not particularly attractive.
As someone who is not good at faces, this era of beauty industrialisation is very frustrating. It looks like everyone just glued the same face on their own face and called it beauty. Absolutely not. If my eye can't be hooked on a distinctive facial feature (or disharmony), there's no way I'll remember your face. How many times did i ask myself: "wait... am i following you? Why? Who tf are you again?" On social media? I don't even follow influencers, yet it is so widely spread that the "influencer face" is everywhere. It's... normal. It's fucked up, but everybody wants a piece of the social media money cake. Authenticity doesn't sell anymore, and everybody is a poster child for some products these days. That's why it's important to recognise beauty in real everyday people. It feels like we are the in-between generation who can separate online and offline faces, who can tell true from fake. I wonder if future generations will hate all human flaws and anihilate them, or on the contrary, if they'll crave for them as they struggle to grasp their own natural animal nature. Only time will tell.
I won't sit here and say that pretty isn't pretty. Sure you can have the fox face and be skinny and gorgeous. Whatever. But when that's all it comes to, I'm seriously just thirsting for some variety.. for something that even disturbs me and pulls me out of slumber.
The industrialization of beauty is ironically beautiful. Because it plunges the ego into terror with the truth that "you aren't really real, ya'know. You're just parts." The destruction of distinction is the way back to divinity. And the signs of this process terrifies those who've convinced themselves to be real.
All the hottest girls have "flaws", unique irregularities about them. My ex had a bit of a crooked nose and it was the sexiest thing I could think of. Uniqueness and individuality is the overlooked factor in beauty today, so many people buy into these bland standards that work for one person then decide "THAT'S BEAUTY" and try to emulate it, it's soooooo so boring, no risks taken or self honoured. Say for example the slender button nose so many girls seem to want - I don't really find that very beautiful at all. I like girls with big noses actually haha... Beauty's full potential is realised differently for every individual, we shouldn't all be trying to look the same, that's so so stupid and such a disrespect to the unique beings we all are.
Maybe we should start looking into David Croeneberg’s beauty standards and applying his tastes to our ideas of beauty
One of my friend’s in high school had a ‘’snaggle tooth’’; an extra tooth that grew over her top left canine tooth. Her husband used to tell her all the time how much he absolutely ADORED her snaggle tooth. And it’s true. I’m SO glad she never got it removed. It’s perfectly ‘’imperfect’’, and uniquely HER.
This also reminds me of Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore- he had some weird teeth when he was young. I loved him anyway. But he had them fixed and it’s like what made him so cool got erased. 😑☹
This made my day because I have a big nose and I also appreciate uniqueness and eccentricity in people. Big noses are not ugly it’s just different and I think men with big noses are extra handsome too, many races have different facial features all unique God given beauty. I’ve had other women make fun of my nose but truth is I have dated some seriously handsome men so I feel beautiful even though I was bullied I don’t care what anyone thinks. Only insecure people have to put others down!
Period. If I gave all my drawings a slim nose they would have same face syndrome and not be unique,that's why I always wanna Draw asymmetry, adding random dots, play with the sizes of each item in the face, crooked features, different eye sockets, crooked teeth, different types of bewbs and I used to draw a lot of big noses because I thought they're beautiful 😂😂 ❤ they're just such a wow factor in the face.
There's nothing wrong with other noses , or thin lips . All these button nose and juicy lips trends make people look exactly the same .
I like to compare the "beautiful" people to a formal French garden such as the ones at Versailles: manicured down to a fraction of an inch, perfect in symmetry, and pleasing to the eye. The formal French garden seems nice enough until you see the Scottish highlands or the Grand Canyon, and then there can be no comparison.
Wow. Food for thought really!
As a student of History, there is indeed a clear distinction of beauty from a well-manicured garden and a natural feature - both oare beautiful in its distinct manner.
That's why it exists a distinction between Beauty, what is agreable, familiar, well maintained and the Sublime, what gives us this feeling of awe, almost fear and yet excitement
Yes, the latter inspires adventure, mystery, ancient knowledge, reverance. The french gardens are ordered, clean and boring!
Have to disagree regarding this. Would rather look at the garden then grand canyon
Modern buildings are so boring, it makes me sad everytime I see a new one, where could stand a master piece, now stand just rectangle grid... Here in Prague we have many old buildings, each one is unique and I could spend hours looking at each one, it tells a story, and every time you look at it you can discover new detail.. Seems like many crafts are becoming extinct, its heartbreaking.
kinda like japanese architecture
it's kind of hard to replicate older buildings like in ancient babylonia for example, and it's true that they didn't come without their own issues - like slaves often being used to build them. but it is indeed an impressive human feat to design the seemingly impossible and build it in real life back then, where they didn't have electricity and relied on manpower.
maybe if modern buildings integrated only aesthetic elements like in said ancient times, our city scapes would look nicer without complicating the base structure (electric connectivity, plumbing, heating etc).
Where I live in the US, every building looks like a grey square or a sheet metal shed with huge wide-open parking lots, and they're all chain stores and restaurants that don't want you hanging around.
I never want to go anywhere.
There are wonderful ways to make modern architecture beautiful, such as the cyberpunk aesthetic which is one of my favourites. I love tall neon lights and skyscrapers. However, things like brutalist arch is horrible
@HusbandoCollector would you say that the current 'minimalist' style is a subset of brutalism?
Everything said in this video is gospel--and I would like to add that the consuming desire to have the kendall jenner spotless perfect beauty is honestly terrifying. It is terrifying because of how many people try to use their dollars to purchase this clean, spotless beauty and, ironically, lack discipline and actual substance to their personhood. Kendall Jenner is nice to look at, but I have rarely ever thought of her past the first 5 seconds of seeing a magazine cover. You know who I have thought of without prompt? Helena Bonham Carter. Barbra Streisand. Dita von Teese. I honestly struggle to accept that I could ever bring a child into this world if society keeps neglecting the richness and demanding nature of beauty. The richness of imperfection and the grit of being human make the pursuit (and end embrace) of beauty worth the effort (outside a plastic surgeon's operating table).
Heady Lamar ❤
Probably spelled it wrong
I'm fascinated by the trend of trying to become like someone else, I just don't get it 😊
YES! The PURSUIT of beauty! The effort that goes into let's say.. glamour, which is the mysticism and illusion we achieve through things like makeup, clothing, perfume, performance...etc. This perfection at some point replaces the need for the great feminine rituals and ceremonies. The things that honor our femininity and our individual beauty.
Dita Von Tesse, my muse🫦❤️
When you said these women seem "manufactured", I gasped. Its like smth clicked in my mind. All reminded me of Benjamin's theory on Art's aura and its dissolve after mass accessibility to high art. There is no longer an authentic feminine beauty becuz of the access media granted to people and how we can see beautiful women anytime we want and these women or I should say for a lack of a better word *images* of these women are becoming repetitive to the point that their beauty is not impressive, the aura of a beautiful woman is what we need. Have u seen such woman before whose aura is all consuming and magnetizing, you keep wondering if you will see such beauty after such sacred display? Her aura is incredible that u will keep thinking of her even after years of seeing many faces...
Well have you seen any
@@ilsagita5257i still think of Natasha Poly's John Galliano 2007 teary black make up, unbridled, unhinged t-girl swag serve. Art pieces elevated to quasi-subject performance. She embodied mater dolorosa in her brash motion, her aching expressions, the dried tears clashing with the prismatic spray in the hair tendrils brushing her face. Such beauty really lingers. Beauty that doesn't care to pursue prim-trimmed perfection. Beauty that wallows in its erraticness and unruly despair. Beauty in destruction. It makes everything else seem dull and quite a bore by comparison.
McLuhan called this industrialized standard the mechanical bride.
lemme just call you a carpenter cause you nailed it with this one
Damn that was good, I'm stealing it😂
There's a bollywood actress named kajol, she's a legendary actress in south asia and consistently considered one of the most beautiful women of the 90s, she shared a piece of advice her grandmother gave about beauty. "Kajol you know why im beautiful? I'm beautiful because i have a big nose." This small imperfection, this uniqueness, is what made her beautiful. Brooke shields has thick and bushy eyebrows, kate moss's eyes are far apart, bella hadid has a square jaw, Rihanna has a large forehead. All these imperfections however are what give these women their unique look, their beauty, their individual merit, it differentiates them from every other girl
“They are so beautiful that they are not beautiful anymore.” That is so true. Celebrating my teeth gap and my beautifully melanated skin is what make me one of one: a unique beauty
I love teeth gaps, wide forheads, square jaws, big noses, whatever just differences. We are the wild gardens of life, all are unique and beautiful for it.
you’re so beautiful
perfection is so dull, the raw irregularities are what makes a truly beautiful human being
I agree I wrote this in my notebook a while back. There’s something attractive about knowing one isn’t beautiful and being ok with it.
So true... i was an ugly duckling growing up, hated myself, my irregularities, my skin tone... now after so many years of self hatred, i can honestly say i love myself and the way I look with all of my heart, flaws and all
i was thinking a while back about actors and how sterile they look. even with masculine beauty, if you think of the marvel superhero compared to say, a shirtless clark gable in it happened one night. they might be more chiselled now, but they look like they're made of plastic because everything is taken to such an extreme. i think of food and perfume too, and how people shy away completely from bitter or tart flavours towards processed food which is uniformly perfect in taste, or the popularity of gourmand scents that all have the same cloying artificial sweetness. it's all about marketability at the expense of real beauty and substance.
All of this
Absolutely
I sometimes feel bad about my flaws or what I'd like to get done but I'm also glad that I can't really think of anyone who looks like me, celebrity or not.
Honestly I think everyone just needs a crazy artist to paint their portrait so they can stop looking at their features so literally.
@@HeavenSentHoneygreat idea actually that's one of my motivation to paint every weekend I want to reach that skill set as quickly as possible to draw the people I love my friends, family and anyone who keeps worry about their looks
same, I even try to look for myself in every day people and I still have never really seen anyone who looks like me lol
@@HeavenSentHoney I was so blessed to have a random fine arts photographer ask me to model for her. She created some beautiful prints that I look back on fondly.
I don’t know why but it reminds me of the quote - “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it”
That’s why imperfection is interesting , because it seems more authentic
this video is so beautiful and comforting, i love how you're just talking in the dark with a microphone, no pictures, no distractions
This made me look at myself differently
That's why the cross is the most beautiful symbol, it's torture, cruelty, hate, suffering and murder, the ugliest thing to look at if taken at face value but reframed and revealing the spiritual capacity for passionate love which humans have.
Interesting perspective of the cross
This makes me feel beautiful.
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - Francis Bacon, 1597
The japanese aesthetics have a specific word for natural beauty that includes dirty and flaw. In fact when japanese came into contact with western art for the first time they couldn't understand the obsession of ultra perfection and hyper fixation of certain qualities at the exclusion of other areas.
What's ironic is that "modern" beauty is all a blur now, one face indistinguishable from the next...which in the past would've been described as average, common, sometimes ugly. You are right when you said that natural born perfected beauty was a miracle due to its rarity. I remember thinking to myself how I see so many "beautiful" people now than when I was coming of age in the 90s watching TV and being enthralled by supermodels. It's a strange phenomenon to witness how the modern definition of beauty is manufactured, but also made me appreciate my ethnic, dare I say, "exotic" looks more and thankful I didn't get a nose job after highschool. As I've gotten older I've noticed that my features have refined and settled into my face. Excellent video, Celine!
I've been thinking these things for ages, you see basically the same exact face repeated a thousand times online. It's so uninspiring. Hyper symmetrical, big lips, small nose, cat eyes and "perfect" plastic looking hair. It's creepy and ironic. Everybody wants to be special, a "special beauty" and achieve it by moulding themselves into the same person. It's also entirely superficial, there is no personality. This is for women who sadly don't have much going on under the surface, or much intelligence to offer.
The Algorithm shows you what you want to see based off previous pages you've visited Definitely confirmations bias
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg I actually think it’s more than that. There is an element of that but there is definitely just a lot of that stuff everywhere. It’s not my preference at all, quite the opposite but all I need to do is put “makeup look” into the search engine and it shows me 99% of that type of face. Even if I try to encourage it to show me smth different it always put those faces right there, especially if you’re looking up anything linked to feminine searches.
Personally I go through my feed blocking and saying “not interested” and I have to do this frequently because the shit I don’t want to see, like the beauty this video is criticizing, keeps coming back up like an incurable disease.
@@HeavenSentHoney This is one of the reasons why I’m so happy to have discovered your channel. It’s refreshing and such a relief to see an artistic person who actually uses their intelligence and thinks critically about such topics!
@@HeavenSentHoney so just say you don't know how to change the algorithm no need to make video essays on something you don't like I disagree with you simply because I know how to change my algorithms See i have types of gurls I go after if I go to explore and don't see that type of gurl I go like and comment on the gurls i like then the algorithm fixes itself Not interested doesn't do anything really you have to do it manually for example if you want to see all natural gurls with natural hair just start commenting and liking those pages more it's not that hard
this also proves moderation is the sweet spot. its all about balanced and harmony not excess
My therapy on a hungover sunday morning
This is one of the most sincerely thoughtful monologues I've heard from *any* human being in a very long time. A calm and genuine reflection with just the slightest trace of provocation is incredibly beautiful to me because it's so rare.
I've always loved it when a person has a bigger than usual nose and also if the teeth have 'character'. They seem to evoke parts of a person's personality.
So well said! I have to say that as a vintage seller, there's a magnetic pull customers feel towards handmade items. Irregular stitching in hand embroidered pieces, an off center patch on the back of a jacket...these items vibrate at a higher frequency. They trigger a positive emotional response in a way their mass produced counterparts CAN'T.
i think the sterile look also comes from the use of retinol, it makes a skin that is creepily clear and ceramic looking
I think it's more fillers and photoshop, even with retinol no one really looks like that underneath. Sometimes I get upset about my zits even though my skin is mostly clear and so much improved from how it was a few years ago but then I think about how the Kardashians have zits underneath their makeup and if people who have the time/money/incentive to devote their entire lives to looking as good as possible still can't get 10000% clear skin I don't have a chance and it really doesn't matter anyway
Maybe in filters it looks like that but irl I think retinol looks fine. Unless they have filler.
i think it’s the filters. i use tretinoin and it will never make my face look that smooth and unreal. i still have pores and tiny bumps and imperfections, and although it has been smoothed significantly, it still looks human (and healthy)
I feel like what the soul wants from beauty is the promise of eternity to grasp the essence of the divine embodied in flesh.
love u... ure making life interesting again
Was literally just thinking about this subject and hoping that YOU specifically would speak on this matter. You are the best, well said
thank you so much for this. you are a goddess for sharing this important message! beauty lies in our perceived "imperfections" ... what makes us different is what makes us beautiful. nowadays everyone wants to get stuff done just to look like everyone else. where did our unique spark go? we all have that if we can just embrace ourselves exactly as we are, messiness & all. i needed to hear this today, very grateful for your channel. thank you for simply being!
something powerful i remind myself often is... look at mother nature. nature is not perfect ~ a twisted tree, brown spots on a leaf, flowers growing in every which way... but yet she is infinitely gorgeous. we don't pick apart her "imperfections"... we just recognize that she is beautiful just for being.
Natures beauty and well as ours is a sum of the parts. We hyper focus on things we must fix, and forget they are part of a whole, and that others don’t even see what we worry about.
Even in neuroscience it is proven that we do not see all the details, we see a silhouette or general impression, it’s a reductionism that helps us not overload ourselves. So imperfections aside, what does the whole of us feel like? What is our energy or impression like to others? How do people feel when they are around us?
This can even be extended to AI generated "art", and this would prove that there is no way for AI to replace artists.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...
This is very interesting to me. I find people staring at me and im a bit like why because although i am beautiful i have a broken nose and other assymetry and obvious flaws. There are women much more symmetrical that don't get as stared at. It's the ugly omg lol
😭💀 saaame
It sounds like you're striking. People who are gorgeous and very symmetrical (esp if they have this IG face) don't stand out so much. But if you're very attractive in a more unique way you're more likely to draw glances. I don't think I'm so attractive now, but when I was a bit younger I used to get a lot of stares and people on the street telling me I was beautiful etc. I've had a couple people tell me I had their favourite face they'd ever seen! But then as a teen (teens are typically going to be more honest than adults) I had multiple people say I was ugly! I know I have some quite unique features and I think that draws a whole variety of responses to my face and also means perhaps people look at me more than they might someone who is super conventionally attractive.
we only need to look to nature to see what true beauty is. what original and alive looks like.
What makes a person beautiful is whats underneath. The true beauty is the beauty of the mind and heart
Yeah, keep saying that to yourself in front of the mirror.
@@Pazuzu- someone with a beautiful and creative mind would get it without a mirror
@@Sweetlove907 Lmao. Thats a lot of cope
@@Pazuzu- I don't understand what you're talking about
@@Pazuzu- you clearly never picked up a pencil and drew something before
Very interesting, in France this idea of using your flaws as your most interesting assets is really part of the culture, particularly in Paris. Also as you speak of that, if one would consider Magic, or Life Force, Chi, Prana, Ether... The Source of life, it can only be transmitted from a Living Being, and the Most inspired, present, aligned, incarnated or Conscious one would say, this Being is (Animal, person, plant or even the Earth), The more what they produce is not just produce (As Produce is a transformation, like Human secretions), but a creation. A Creation being the fruit of Several Energies coming together to become something New, Male + Female, Inspiration + Skills and so on... Than you for beautifully directing our attention back to the Living Spiritual Raw Sense of beauty!
We want the devine, and the flaws that only add to the story of art or the person. I remember going to MFA in Boston as a kid, it fascinated me to see the paint brush hairs embedded in these immaculate paintings older than time itself. Beautiful art video, u hav a way of lifting the spirit with your insight ty 🌹
People used to stop me on the street thinking I was Jennifer Grey. Same age, same hair, same body type. Then she got her nose “fixed.” Perfect example of don’t mess with what makes you unique.
Zendaya is the definition of classic beauty. Her whole face is actually the opposite of today’s beauty standards if you really look. Hooded eye lids not cat eye, Flatish nose, and a lovely unique face shape with thin-medium sized lips. She’s considered rare beauty in my eyes like classic beauty
No
Zendaya's got thin lips? I don't think so
@@denys2787she doesn’t have the “instagram” model lips I agree they re not thin
You’re a fool if you don’t think this girl has had work done or will soon start getting work done. She’s still a manufactured star
She's also tall an thin which helps
As a guy I might be kind of out of place in this comment section, but whatever. I really couldn't agree more. What I myself have always known to be true, but been unable to put into words, you have just articulated for me. So thanks, I guess. Honestly, I've had both guys and gals come up to me and ask me, why I'm attracted to a woman whom, in their mind, is not nearly pretty enough for me. Whereas I catch myself looking after her just a little longer than is appropriate. In fact, to this day, whenever I watch Harry Potter, particularly a scene with Lavender Brown in it, I actually start jittering. I cannot take my eyes off of her. If I was a student of Hogwarts and she stood in front of me, this calm, collected, stoic and generally unapproachable looking guy I usually am, would turn all flustered and nervous. Fuckin' hell I love her! Not literally, you know what I mean.
Anyway, great video.
You're not out of place here. Beauty is not solely a characteristic of women or solely something which matters for women, and it should not be spoken of like it is.
I don't know why some people think we should all be competing to date the same person. As the person whom everyone was always after, it is extremely uncomfortable because most of the attention is creepy or insincere (and no one stopped long enough to ask who *I* preferred). And the whole way people idealize men who date supermodels/ the conventional beauty is 🤢. A beautiful woman isn't a prize for a man to collect wtf.
@@golwenlothlindelWomen art indeed the prize. As a Woman - a Real Woman - I do consider myself unto be the prize and do love the MEN.
As a Woman - a Real Woman - I do consider myself unto be the prize and do love the MEN. Rather. I do not care about other females particularly.
@@kiranjitKaur61 a prize is an object, a person is not an object. A woman is a person, so she is not an object: therefore she is not a prize. My sister, you can love a man and also know you are equal to him in the eyes of God. When you do marry, do not make your husband into a golden idol for there is no God but God.
@@golwenlothlindel No, a Man is my God. It is as it hadst rather ought unto be. I do not care about other females particularly.
I was watching waiting to exhale and always admired that all the women were their own person and all attractive with sex appeal by being themselves
Hollywood just prefers fiction
I’ve always genuinely found “ugly” beautiful. Dilapidated buildings, well-worn quilts, scarred furniture. On a person, I adore asymmetrical smiles, tooth gaps, super hooded eyes, puffy cheeks, scars, “big” noses. 🙏
I love your profile picture! The dog is so cute.
Ugly is an antonym of beautiful for a reason. It's totally incorrect to say ugly is beautiful. You have your own taste.
@@tobe-you-tube6612 Likewise, the quotation marks are there for a reason. They imply that I’m quoting someone. Clearly I cannot find something both ugly and beautiful. Still, both are subjective and that was my point.
I'm a fashion designer and have 2 rules when it comes to picking models:
1. Must be at least 18. 2. No plastic surgery/ fillers/ botox
I don't think the beauty standard or Instagram face is beautiful.
I think our unique characteristics and ethnic traits are beautiful.
Beauty is unique and perfect not inauthentic.
man you just said exactly what I’ve been trying to put into words “so beautiful they’re NOT beautiful anymore” I get exactly what you mean the beauty standards are so messed up I think everyone has unique and beautiful pictures you don’t have to be a perfect Barbie to be beautiful
Simon Doonan talked about this with regards to "sexy" in his book, Eccentric Glamour. He called out that being sexy and seductive have become been completely replaced by looking like a porn star.
7:02 There is no need to blame scientists and disregard scientifically proven studies to also accept more nuances to the matter. It is completely true that we naturally find symmetry to be beautiful. like composition, like colors... there's physiological reasons for that. But that doesn't mean that's the only element that defines our attraction to something or someone. It's just one of them. That's why also imperfections can be attractive, because uniqueness is also attractive. The combination of both things in different degrees is what in the end makes something attractive
I get it. I'm just sick of hearing that as a catch-all
Oh my god the disney princess nose and big eyes combo used in the ai filters drives me crazy. And people use it like it’s all just cute and good completely looking over how it takes away their prominent human features
I think the same. I've developed a disgust for that nose shape, unfortunately
yeah, filters always reshape my face and make me feel really sad
So agree. As an artist, I can vouch. What makes something beautiful is not a list of measurements and features. For as much as I typically abhor what is labeled as ‘’modern art’’ the whole movement got started because it was trying to show you can’t pigeon hole art, though there ARE perimeters. It’s just that the perimeters are not fixed. Beauty has something original AND real to it.
This speaks to the japanese aesthetic concept and philosophy of Wabi-Sabi. That beauty can only be captured in the occasional imperfection of a thing, be it a hat a rose or a face. Only distinctive character can define beauty.
0:26 which is why we should never fix the extra fingers bug in ai
Beautifully said! Many of us know this but I feel like your presentation of it will help people (myself included) fully internalize it
Symmetry is psychologically, harmonious to peoples brains. That is a fact, but somebody can have a giant big nose that is symmetrical on their face. I’m using myself as an example. Hahaha
i genuinely believe that the idea of symmetry/perfection = beauty is closely related to european art. Particularly renaissance and gothic architecture (gothic architecture being my personal fav of architectural styles). The discipline of art history harps on renaissance, gothic architecture and greek/roman art (aka the classics) being considered perfect and unfortunately it’s translated into how we construct beauty standards and scientific understanding of beauty. I love all these styles and periods of art btw I just think that the way they’ve been interpreted and recontextualized has definitely changed the way we view ourselves and unfortunately art itself for the worse (see: modern/contemporary art) but that’s a different conversation. I really enjoyed this video btw!
You are the first girl in youtube i hear talking about this truths. Great speak. Ty!
I think that in the end, everything is a niche. There are guys who only like these desperate emulations of perfection because they are looking for something that looks like an idealization, and there are guys who prefer an average look because it is something that is easier to identify with and seems more sincere or whatever. There's also that guy who just pretends to be really picky but deep down he/she just doesn't like the stuff that much. There's room for everything
This video made me feel incredibly beautiful
This is a channel I didn't know I needed. Your messages evoke deep contemplation of the choices we make in our lives and encourages us to reflect on the meaning and power of beauty. Thank you so much for all you do!
Omg you’ve just put into words the thoughts I’ve been having for months now. When people look too “perfect” they tend to sterile and un-alluring. Like they lost their humanity. An all too perfect face ends up being too distant, cold, and the lacking warmth that makes a face or body appear actually real if that makes any sense.
Perfection is anti seductive
No..not if it is natural. * Rather.
@@kiranjitKaur61 I’m not talking about a natural “perfect” face, plus there’s actually no such thing as that, but I’m talking about a “perfect face” being achieved through man interventions like plastic surgery. After a while and after one too many procedures, that person starts to look uncanny. You might not call them ugly, but you can’t call them beautiful either, because something just seems “off”. And that’s what’s anti seductive.
Pay attention to context to which a comment is made before refuting it..
@@Gamigami978 My face were naturally perfect as a child. That is how that I didst know that it is possible.
Beauty is energy. We desire the beloved because we feel love around them, because of their energy toward us and ours to them. Its why you feel your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world no matter her age.
Beauty is in the 👁️ of the Beloved. 🌹
Discovered your channel yesterday, watched a couple of your videos, and this right here is definitely my favorite so far. Extremely intelligent points made, and I learned new things. Thanks for the education.
It's not just blemish and mutation. it's the right blemish, the right mutation. A beauty mark in the right place is considered so, but acne is widely not. There is a thin line between beautiful and ugly soemtimes of flaw and defining characteristics.
Beautify is not found in the realm of the physical. That is mere prettiness. Beauty is within the realm of the spiritual.
This is a common mistake.
Thats what ive been saying and thinking for so long 😭. All the influencers and celebrities have become a similar type of face. Still pretty but something u see often. Beauty is rarity and i dont mean that in a only very few people are actually beautiful but the less you look like others the more appeal i think u possess. Those ai types of beautys are ofc asthetically pleasing to look at but you wont give them a second look beacuse we have gotten used to it so much. Theres a reason why runways used to demand "differnt" faces beacuse beauty is uniquness, beauty is differnt, beauty is something you dont see in others. True beauty for me is when a person has so unique looks that i cant help but look again again trying to figure them out like a puzzle. I also think if your beauty (every persons beauty is personal and unique to them) matches your personality somehow it adds to the allure but thats for some other time. This is all my perspective tho and i love your videos they are so thought provoking. ❤❤❤❤
To know that even "SUPERMODELS" are doing plastic surgery and filters says alot about the society.
It’s so interesting to really look at someone, anyone. Take in their features individually and all together. At first they look fine, then somewhat ugly, then beautiful again.
This is some of the most insightful commentary I’ve ever witnessed on this topic. Amazing! Thank you.
uniqueness will always be the ultimate form of beauty
Wow your words are art! There is holiness in what you speak, and it pulls us back from the confusion. Thank you 🙏🏼 I truly enjoy your page!
Because imperfections are like a mark of one's individuality. If everyone's beautiful in the same way, with the exact same characteristics, then we lose interest. It's one's individuality that can be attractive and beautiful to some.
I've always felt like I was without words to describe the empty feeling when I these heavily altered faces. Even when you think about artificial intelligence creating a attractive face it always has similar features no matter what ethnic background. I can see these social media starlets and acknowledge their conventional attractiveness, but something feels inherently void like. That strange vapidness to their beauty is actually me picking up on that sameness that manufactured like quality. It's funny I remember a few years ago people talking about Instagram face. Manufactured is truly the perfect usage here. You are so incredibly well-spoken. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this!
Yes, because real beauty just is. I don’t need to do anything to be beautiful because then it’s not beauty.
Your wise beyond reason and I love you. I also think there's some deep and artistic meaning behind this message being said in the dark and indirectly, I'm just not sure what it is yet.
"Im not ugly Im wabi sabi"
Yes! I find beauty in the so light overbite with a mid lisp and gaps in the teeth I’m relating to this
I completely agree with you on this topic which I have thought about days ago!! You’re so inspiring ❤❤ thanks for sharing!
Agreed and so refreshing to hear 💗
I'm not even a fan, but Kim Kardashian before she underwent plastic surgeries was so naturally drop dead gorgeous it was unreal. So sad that she voluntarily became a mass produced AI clone instead.
Yes! Sex appeal goes out the window when a person is so beautiful. I find women like Vanessa Paradis, Helena Bonham Carter, Sevdaliza, FKA Twigs, and Erykah Badu incredibly attractive and sexy. A touch of strange and the macabre are needed.
There was a classmate of mine who I was lab partners with but other girls would kind of talk about her. They thought she didn't wear trendy clothes, she picked at her lips, she was to tall, etc. This was the height of the 2000s, so the beauty standard was different. Anyways she did modeling for Bay Area Chinese garment fashions. Like in the scene for Asian traditional garnet she was sought after for her looks and ability to walk the catwalk. She would do editorial photos and she looked unearthly beautiful. My fellow classmates were stunned when they found the photos on MySpace.
Agree, yes, at 1:38 "they are so common, and similar." Too perfect. I noticed a while ago that this current group of beauty enhancers must not realize how the look they are creating is, basically spot on, the one of the 1970s blow up dolls! Rally, same lips, same expression. Egads. I first noticed it in the early 2000s when everyone was going for perfect teeth, big, white and straight. like a mouthful of teeth. While, if natural is stunning. I knew a lady with a naturally stunning white smile, (from Sweden.) I met her in Chicago and she was dismayed because people no longer commented on how rare it was but, instead, asked her who did it for her. :(
I notice that the more a woman has manufactured her beauty the less I feel her beauty regardless of how good she looks.
I remember once I had cut off all my hair and men mostly , asked me why I would DO THAT ? Why would I purposely make myself less attractive?And I remember feeling they just didn’t get it , and answering what I thought was obvious which was “Why would I settle with being “beautiful“ when I would much rather have a shot at being fabulous?
I had , &still have always had this weird problem where , if I create something that too many people like , I’ll immediately question myself :”What did I do wrong?” because in my mind if it’s so good & groundbreaking &innovative , most people shouldn’t understand it at first , much less like it .
It’s a trait I just have . And I will never think differently .
It’s almost like , I don’t think I want anything that money can buy, because if it’s truly unique , it has no price tag .
I loathe consumerism & commercially successful products , people , music , whatever , to no end . Well not loathe , I’m sorry , loathe is too strong of a feeling , I just don’t bother actually .
Thanks for your video on Eddie and muses btw.
This is what kids need to hear!
this was really well done. I hope it reaches more and more people
Thank you for bringing this point out into the world. Its exactly how i felt but lacked the exact words to explain it but yes this is very true.
I was born with the Barbie nose and I've had ppl tell me all the time they're jealous or that I "won the genetics lottery" with it lol but I've always disliked that it's a Babrie nose bc it just seems... generic lol Distinctive noses give someone's face so much character and thusly so much beauty to me. It's part of what makes someone interesting looking instead of "generic preset human being number 3." So if you have a nose that doesn't look like a Barbie nose, cherish it. Like the perfect rug, it really brings your face together.
This is my sentiment about beauty ngl. But well, most people do not have this kind of depth so it's sad.
you speak so beautifully. your words are magical
this is so true, I used to want to be perfect, part of this beauty idea of perfect symmetry and proportion because it felt like that's what people like seeing, it's such a warped idea honestly. I used to hold these gorgeous people up on a high pedestal and devalue myself and any of my other qualities, my kindness, my compassion, strength, my humanness after all.
Now after a while when I look at gorgeous people, I don't see them as special. Some of them I don't even find beautiful, just something off/"ugly" about their energy or the way they carry themselves, although the symmetry and perfection is there.
perfection is empty without a soul, without humanness.
Charisma and personality always triumph where it matters I think.