beauty ideal
Cultural attractiveness template
A beauty ideal is a cultural standard of physical attractiveness that people measure themselves and others against.
These ideals vary across time and place—what counts as beautiful in one era or society may differ sharply from another.
The hourglass figure was the dominant beauty ideal of the 1950s.
The term often appears in discussions of how media shapes body image and self-perception.
- perfectionAbsence of any fault
- flawlessEntirely without fault
- face cardIllustrated playing card
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- airbrushedEdited for artificial perfection
glass skin · hourglass · chiseled · porcelain · skinny · thigh gap · size zero · beach body · tanned · blonde · youthful · wrinkle-free · supermodel · cover girl · runway · photoshop · unattainable · standards
- Platonic idealsperfect form, archetype, pure form, universal, essence
- female portraitsMona Lisa, oil portrait, profile view, full-length portrait, miniature portrait
- Pre-RaphaelitesRossetti, brotherhood, Ophelia, Waterhouse, William Morris
beauty idealunattractiveness
Lack of visual appeal
homeliness · plainness · ugliness · grotesquerie · grotesque
beauty idealbody acceptance
Comfort with one's physique
body neutrality · imperfection · body positivity · irregularity · asymmetry
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