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It happens so that we hear that outer beauty is nothing but a question of luck. Some individuals were a little luckier at birth than others and were blessed with a nice face, a perfect figure and an irresistible smile. “So what?”, they say. “You have your own type of beauty, maybe it is not your face, but your character, your ability to have affection to others and help them, you talents and inner characteristics”! Of course, you understand that a man is more than a mere appearance, but all the same, somewhere in our soul you feel deprived and cheated. Why does it happen?

To know the answer let us dissect contemporary lifestyles and the public opinion prompted by the mass media. Every entertainment and show on TV, every single ad, the main part of articles in numerous journals and magazines give you the same - you should behave this way or another to be energetic, youthful, healthy and beautiful! In fact, money, energy, youth, beauty and sex appeal are the tin goods forced on us these days. If you cannot give your friends a lift in a brand new BMW, desolation is your fate! If you are not pretty enough, you life is a mistake! If your muscles are not prominent enough you will surely finish your useless existance in the gutter! If you breasts are not large and shapely enough, you will never get anywhere, so seize trying! If you are over forty you are too old - give the way to teens or they will sweep you out of their way! Judging by our mass culture the whole world goes insane and we are ecstatic about it… Do you still need more evidences to decipher why you become so uneasy when special trainings and psychological counsels start feeding you with inner beauty that is far more important that a mere shell!

There is a stunning difference between what mass culture tells us and what certain specialists state. Of course you cannot find a foundation to rest at! Let us try to analyze this painful term to get a pretty good idea of what beauty is! It will help you understand whether you wish to become the slave of your mortal shell or try to realize what you are like deep inside your soul!

We use the term beauty to characterize any human being, creature, place, object, phenomenon or idea that we absorb with a feeling of delight and satisfaction. Beauty is an essential part of aesthetics, psychology and culture of every nation in the world. The ideal of beauty is a kind of perfection existing in one’s imagination but impossible to achieve in reality.

As a matter of fact, the feeling of beauty is nothing but a mixture of natural harmony and balance in every detail, it makes a human being, animal, place, object, phenomenon or idea in question particularly attractive and nice for humans perceiving it. It is an exceptionally subjective experience, maybe that is why they say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.

The spring of the word “beauty” can explain some sides of today’s term. The Greek equivalent of the word “beautiful” - “horaios” literally means “being of one’s hour” - so, ripe fruits of the time were believed to be beautiful. At the same historical epoch young girls who tried to look older as well as old women who tried to look younger were not considered beautiful at all! Beautiful meant “good in its time”, that is why old personalities and even handicapped warriors were considered just as beautiful as young and healthy people. Can you fancy anything of the kind in our up-to-date society proclaiming the epoch of equality and humanism?

You will be stunned to learn that babies very early acquire a preference for beautiful faces; in fact it is a type of cognitive standard any human is born with! That is why the universal notions of beauty and attractiveness are the same across all cultures and genders. Number one building block of beauty is symmetry. The explanation is rather simple here - we all like symmetry and proportion because it is the evidence of absence of any genetic or acquired defects. No wonder ancient nations really treasured symmetry.

So, the Pythagorean school found special charm in the golden ratio and proclaimed the beauty of every personality and object corresponding definite mathematic rules. Ancient Greeks showed their love of symmetry and proportion having erected many of marvelous buildings, gorgeous statues of men and women etc. Renaissance Europe restored this ancient idea of beauty that is why up to now we call definite types of male and female body and face proportion a “classical beauty”.

Speaking about appearance it is foolish to forget that we are a part of nature, we are creatures sharing basic instincts with the majority of mammals on the Earth. Of course that our instincts influenced by the force of our intellect disguise themselves as certain habits, tastes, emotions, likes and dislikes. Actually the standards of male and female attractiveness are based on the qualities necessary for reproduction and survival of the human race. Stunned? OK, here are some hints for understanding the nature of beauty of the opposite sex!

You will not deny the fact that persons who are rather young, with smooth skin, well-proportioned bodies and regular features are always considered to be appealing throughout the history of mankind. You can be absolutely sure you liked your sweetheart for his or her intelligence, grace, politeness, sense of humor, elegance etc. You are absolutely right, but enumerating the features like this, you deny the fact that your spouse has body as well! What about his or her state of health, youthfulness, facial symmetry, smell etc?

One more stunning fact for you - average appearance is the most attractive for the bulk of people. Remember, we have a number of animal instincts in us? The logic is we are attracted to mates of our own species to guaranty reproduction! The average image of the mate is a kind of icon for us; that is why average looks is the most preferable one. Newest research proved that the main part of men and women found a computer generated average image more attractive than individual images of real humans having certain specific features!

What are the determinants of male outer beauty? As recent research showed, heterosexual women and homosexual men prefer:

- heavy brows, prominent chins, heavy jaws and broad cheekbones associated with increased testosterone and showing of good health;
- symmetrical faces and bodies showing of good inheritance and ability to create healthy kids;
- slim waist, broad shoulders and muscular chest (so called v-shaped torso) associated with increased testosterone, too;
- height - 80% of women dream of a male blessed with the height of 6 feet or taller for long-term commitment and the opposite male when a short-term affair is intended;
- moderate amount of trunk hair.

What are the determinants of female physical attractiveness? As latest research showed, heterosexual men prefer:

- waist-to-hip ratio of about 0.70 because females with hourglass figures are more fertile than other females due to higher levels of certain female hormones, and this fact subconsciously lures the men choosing mates;
- symmetrical face and body being a sign of good inheritance and ability to produce healthy babies;
- large eyes, dilated pupils, small chin and nose, high eyebrows and wide smile;
- women 2.5 - 7 years younger than their mates;
- signals of youth like high perky breasts, smooth skin, clear eyes, long and lustrous hair;
- full (not large) breasts as a signal of fertility;
- erect posture and normal body mass index (neither too thin nor too fat);
- long legs as a subconscious sign of good health (not purely aesthetic feature).

Sorry to say that, natural standards of beauty are dangerously influenced by mass culture. There is a real threat of degeneration of human race if the media continue determining what is or is not beautiful for us the way they do it these days! For instance, anorexic models promote disorders in the heads of many men and women. Glamorous movie idols force ordinary young persons try and fit into extremely narrow standards of TV beauty. Easy excess to dirty pictures and videos creates false conceptions of normal body proportions. Do not forget that the teens are the most vulnerable group of human society and they have to face it every day! What can be done in a situation like this? Keep fit and healthy because real beauty is impossible without perfect health. Have enough sleep, entertainment, physical exercise and recreation. Give up harmful habits - being depressed with your life is one of them, too! Think positive, find time for hanging out with your friends and reaching your goals. Be very careful about your food because we are what we eat! Make sure your body gets every important vitamin and mineral. If you fall ill take the complete course of treatment. If you cannot stand queuing up visit any good internet pharmacy to save you time and money.

If you choose to get cheapest meds online, you will enjoy perfect service and swift delivery saying nothing of unique discounts. And the most important point to fulfill! Be yourself, because trying to become someone else in equally painful and dangerous.