beauty icon
Celebrated aesthetic ideal
A beauty icon is a person widely recognized as embodying ideals of physical attractiveness or style, often influencing fashion and cosmetic trends.
The term typically applies to celebrities, models, or historical figures whose appearance sets standards others aspire to: Audrey Hepburn remains a beauty icon decades after her death.
Someone can also be a beauty icon for a particular era or subculture.
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- glamourFascinating, elegant attractiveness
- Diana RossMotown diva, solo legend
- smilePleased facial expression
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
Marilyn Monroe · Audrey Hepburn · Beyoncé · Zendaya · Elizabeth Taylor · Halle Berry · trendsetting · Grace Kelly · Coco Chanel · signature look · celebrity culture · Sophia Loren · representation · body positivity · aesthetic ideals · timelessness · Brigitte Bardot · Greta Garbo
beauty iconugly duckling
Initially unpromising eventual success
plain Jane · Quasimodo · eyesore · beast · frump
beauty iconnobody
Inconsequential person
face in the crowd · everyman · everywoman · unknown · nonentity