Beauty History

Why is fairness a measure of beauty in some cultures?

Currently being in Singapore with many races living under one roof, it confuses me why many girls are obsessed with being fair. What causes them to think that way? I mean, rationally thinking, if you take a really fair but mediocre-looking girl and put it next to a dark beauty, like Halle Berry or whoever is dark but beautiful, most would still go for the dark?
Is there a history in any culture that associates dark with being unpleasant in any way? I just think it’s almost stupid at times.

Because they know from watching their grandmothers, moles is something everyone is trying to avoid.
The more they are exposed to the sun, the darker & bigger they get. For many, people who are dark are the people who work outside a lot: farmers, construction workers, market vendors, drivers . . . and those who are fair are the princesses, queens and the lady of the house, who stay indoors. They are the rich folks who shouldn’t work, but look their best and entertain people.

My ancestors are the same thing. We cover ourselves from the heat and we remain cool. We work, go shopping but we carry with us umbrella and ride in tricycles or rickishaw (sp?) pedicabs or horse drawn carriage whatever we have to take us from point A to point B, so we hardly walk in the heat. It is a normal sight, not just for queens or princess, but many ladies who work in the office or walk 10 blocks to church we bring our umbrellas AND FOLDING FANS. We didn’t have AC, when I was a kid, we didn’t even have ice cubes! By 10AM it gets really hot, if you know what I mean, it’s like staying under a tree to keep cool & looking fresh.

As for me, I’ve discovered since I was 9, from eating raisins, they start out as grapes but dried from the sun, they become raisins. I certainly don’t want to get wrinkle fast like raisins by the time I’m 30.

1. Because I don’t want to look like a farmer.
2. Because I get too hot.
3. I want to look like movie stars & models, they have blemish-free skins, and I’ve admired them since I started going to the cinema.
4. I don’t want to look like an old prune or get moles on my neck & face like my aunts.

No matter, I still got Discoid Lupus (Google it), caused from the sun. It took 12 years for them to fade. Tried all kinds of lotions that were prescribed to me, and none of them worked. More & more now I protect myself and I take my wide brim hat everywhere I go, or use an umbrella. In Asia, they use umbrella all the time. Here in the States, people started to catch on, and I see people walking w/umbrella, they are used on the beach, and they sell patio umbrellas. It was invented for a reason and also to protect us from getting skin cancer.

The sun is more powerful than most people think!

If you travel elsewhere, there are places where many girls are obsessed in getting tan ‘the darker the better the more beautiful they are. Look at the reward they get in the end: skin cancer, turkey necks, moles, lots of freckles (Lindsay Lohan ex.) and as they get old, look how they suddenly cover their arms because of their discoloration from years of tanning called melanoma. If that’s what they call beautiful! IMO, I don’t think so.

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I’m 60 years old now, but I am the youngest looking gal at the senior center!

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A History of Human Beauty $26.61 A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomized by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power.

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry $50.91 The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today’s global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.

Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry $20.94 Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one idea: symmetry. Symmetry has been a key concept for artists, architects, and musicians for centuries, but as a mathematical principle it remained, until very recently, an arcane pursuit. In the twentieth century, however, symmetry emerged as central to the most fundamental ideas in physics and cosmology. "Why Beauty Is Truth" chronicles its history, from ancient Babylon to twenty-first century physics. World-famous mathematician Ian Stewart tells the compelling stories of the eccentric and occasionally tragic mathematical geniuses as he describes how symmetry grew into one of the most important ideas of modern science.

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Beauty and the Beast $11.96 Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont was a French novelist born in 1711. After her first marriage was annulled she moved to London, becoming a governess. After a successful writing career she remarried had many children and lived in Savoy. Beaumont wrote several books on education. She was one of the first to write fairy tales for children. Mme Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve wrote a story titled Beauty and the Beast. Le Prince de Beaumont revised and abridged this story producing the story that has become one of the most famous children’s tales in history. The tale tells the story of Beauty who meets a terrible looking beast. She learns to love the beast. The moral is that inner beauty is the true and most precious form of beauty.

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Uncommon Beauty $12.99 “Everywhere we look, it is the “100 Most Beautiful” that are honored and publicized. Inner beauty has taken a back seat to outward appearance. While physical attributes can rarely be altered or modified, inner beauty can be cultivated. Bestselling author Cynthia Heald has chosen seven qualities that make a woman beautiful. In order to make these attributes real and applicable, Cynthia has chosen key women from history, literature, the Bible, and our society to illustrate each quality. These women can be considered “ordinary” women–women with whom other women could readily identify with and who could be easily emulated. For it is her desire that the lives of these women will inspire anyone, no matter how young or old, to say, “I want to develop these qualities in my life–I want to be in the process of becoming a beautiful woman.”"

The Beauty Room $3.95 After the death of her mother, Celia Roth begins life anew by redecorating the house where they lived together -the house containing her mothers beauty room. But as the new paint covers their shared history, layer upon layer of dark truths begin to surface. Celias attempts to wrestle free from her mothers shadow falter when she receives a bouquet of black tulips, and realizes she is being watched. The revelation of long-held family secrets and a passionate new affair combine to shatter Celias secure life in the Swiss gem trade. Forced to confront her own grief and guilt, finally she must find the strength and courage to lay her familys past to rest. "The Beauty Room" is a compelling story of intense family relations. With a beautifully compassionate voice, Regi Claire talks of the pain of coping with the loss of those you loved and those you secretly grew to hate.

Haunting Beauty $3.94 Danni always believed she was an abandoned child. Then the seductive Sean Ballogh appears out of nowhere with a startling story challenging everything Danni thought was true. He claims that Danni’s family has been searching for her ever since she disappeared twenty years ago. He’s come to bring her home to Ireland. Now, Danni must rewrite history to save her family, to fight a force more evil than she ever imagined, and to reunite herself with the man she was destined for-or risk living forever in time as nothing more than an ethereal memory, a tragic and haunting beauty.

Compulsive Beauty $35.42 Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In "Compulsive Beauty," Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. "Compulsive Beauty" not only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, it also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.

Striving for Beauty $32.56 Striving for Beauty takes place during the Christensen Brothers era of the San Francisco Ballet. The Prologue ends with Willam presenting the first full-length Nutcracker in America in 1944. Sally Bailey, one of the Company’s future ballerinas, enters Harold’s School here, and through her eyes we see the growth of the Company and herself, including; Willam’s departure, Lew’s ascendance, Balanchine’s influence, the State Department tours, trying to get recognition at home, and touring across the U.S. She also gives her perspective on issues-both personal and artistic-that dancers face. A short Epilogue carries San Francisco Ballet history forward to today.

Caswell-Massey English Lavender Liquid Soap & Hand Lotion Caddy $30 Fragrant with the freshness of fields of Lavender in bloom. Native to the ancient lands surrounding the Mediterranean, Lavender has been a precious oil with a multitude of uses for over 2500 years. In Lavender’s fabled history, it was the fragrance of seduction for Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba, the herb preferred by the Romans for bathing and cooking, a anti-bacterial protection against cholera for 16th century tanners who fragranced hides with Lavender and European Royals who demanded Lavender in pillows, bathing and culinary delights. Of the Lavender flowers currently grown for market, English Lavender is recognized as the best, having a fuller, richer fragrance. Lavender’s unique fragrance and properties come from a complex of 180 natural essences. Lavender is said to enhance love and romance, its presence bringing peace to the home and happiness in marriage. Fragrance family: Aromatic & Herbal Fragrance notes(s): English Lavender, Jasmine, Honey, Orange Blossom The perfect collection for your sink! Conveniently packaged in pump-dispensing bottles, we paired Caswell-Massey English Lavender Liquid Soap with Hand Lotion to clean and moisturize hands in one trip. This set is complete with a chrome-colored caddy to keep bottles organized. Caswell-Massey English Lavender Liquid Soap & Hand Lotion Caddy includes: Caswell-Massey English Lavender Liquid Soap For Hands & Body (8.5 oz.) Caswell-Massey English Lavender Hand & Body Lotion (8.2 oz.)

Sothys Clarte & Confort Freshness Mask $27.2 A softening comfort mask with an immediate soothing effect. • A soft and smooth-textured mask that quickly calms and diffuses redness on all skin types. • This kaolin-based mask strengthens capillaries with its composition of performing plant extracts. • Give the skin a clearer and more even tone. • Fragrance-Free. Directions: Apply a moderate amount of the mask with fingertips on a clean skin. After 10-15 minutes remove with water. Follow with an appropriate Sothys lotion and cream. Use 2 to 3 times a week. Net Weight: 1.7 oz. Ingredients: Kaolin: Kaolin is known as china clay. Its origin is Southeast China. Kaolin is easily applied, due to its texture being smooth. Its properties are oil-soluble, allowing the clay to quickly absorb surface oils. Arnica Extract: Also known as wolf’s bane. A flowery plant with a long history of treatment; aids in fighting bacteria; soothing; speeds healing and diffuses skin redness. Rutin Salt: Contains Vitamin P (nicotinamide), a blood vessel and collagen strengthener. Rutin Salt is found in many plants. Witch Hazel Extract: A particularly interesting botanical in which the leaves contain various treatments; effective on micro-circulation by its flavonoids; traditionally used for its soothing actions against any skin-irritations and its astringent action on the facial skin.Avocado Oil: As a plant oil, its purpose is to coat the skin with its natural lipids. Acting as an emollient, it has a high concentration of Vitamin A and Vitamin C.

Baxter of California Bog Wood Pure Badger Hair Shave Brush $110 MADE IN GERMANY – 100% Natural Badger Hair, soft and durable. The essential tool to achieve a great shave and a pre-shave tool that helps to lift facial hair, and create lather. Second to the razor blade, the Badger Hair Shave Brush is the essential tool used to achieve the best shave possible. Badger hair has a great ability to retain water (which helps create a lather when mixed with a shave cream) improving the barrier between the razor and skin, lifting facial hair to ensure a smoother shave with less irritation. Brief History of Bogwood – Bog Oak wood is a rare timber which is excavated from deep underground, usually as a by-product of turf cutting, or when bog land is drained for agricultural use. Baxter Bog Oak came from logs that where found in Europe and have been carbon dated at 4500 years old. The wood has been preserved due to the unique conditions of the Turf bogs, which waterlog the wood and keep it free from oxygen and sunlight, which would cause it to decay. Directions: 1. Cleanse facial skin. 2. Rinse the brush in warm water, shake off excess water, and apply Baxter Super Close Shave Formula to the top of the badger brush. 3. Work the cream into your beard, using oblique brush strokes. 4. For more lather, dip the tip of the brush in water and add more shave cream.

California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions $28.34 The missions and presidios of California are among the state’s oldest structures and are the most visited historical monuments. These notable buildings are an integral part of California’s history. The state’s recorded history essentially began with the Spanish missions along the ambitious chain of 21 missions on El Camino Real (The Royal Highway) and the men who founded them. "California Missions and Presidios" is a gorgeous book that presents the history of these intriguing sanctuaries of peace and beauty. The eye-popping photography of Alastair Worden and Randy Leffingwell captures their unique character, while Leffingwell’s accessible text brings to life the overall history of California’s conquest by the Spanish; the construction and operation of the missions, presidios, ranchos, and adobes; and the background of the mission architecture and style. Seemingly unchanged, these missions and presidios have survived the centuries remarkably well–still welcoming visitors as a refuge of serenity and splendor while providing a glimpse into the lives of the spirited pioneers who built these structures and lived and worked there.

DS Laboratories Viterol.A for Face $27.75 Viterol.A® (viatrozene gel) 16% – for Wrinkles and Expression Lines The latest weapon in the fight against aging • Visibly lifts, firms, and brightens the skin • Reduces the appearance of wrinkles • Removes age spots • Clinically proven • Preferred by users over StriVecting-SD® • Exceptional value Get ready for flawless skin Viterol.A is the first anti-aging aid that contains viatrozene, a new compound that visibly reduces wrinkles and expression lines and significantly improves the over-all skin health. The greatest benefit of Viterol.A is that it is a continuous and safe treatment, the effect of which does not wear off. Bill Lawler, M.D., a cosmetic surgeon with a 26-year history in aesthetics, witnessed the evolution of nearly all skin care products. “Viterol.A does something completely different then other creams. While Botox is still the treatment of choice for deep furrows and certain types of wrinkles, Viterol.A is the most effective topical treatment for fine lines that I have encountered in my practice. There is also a clearly visible improvement in skin smoothness and firmness,” he said. We promise, but how do you really know? You have already seen hundreds of claims from a plethora of skin care manufacturers who pedal seemingly miraculous cures in all types of creams, lotions, and serums and yet more likely then not you were disappointed with the results. So why should you trust our claims about Viterol.A? First, Viterol.A is clinically proven as a successful treatment for the signs of aging. Second, DS Laboratories (the manufacturer of Viterol.A) is so confident that you will see an improvement in the condition of your skin, that you can return the unused portion of Viterol.A for a full refund! Directions: Use at night. Wash and dry the face and neck well and apply a fine layer of the cream, avoiding the area around the eyes and the eyelids. To achieve more noticeable effects, continue the treatment every day for a month. In the morning use daytime moisturizing lotion, preferably containing sun filter. Complement the treatment with Viterol.A for Eyes and Corners of the Mouth. Note: * Viterol.A is recommended for men and women over the age of 30. ** Some irritation may occur at the beginning of treatment. *** Viterol.A increases sensitivity to the sun and it is highly recommended to use sunscreen everyday during treatment. Net Weight : 40 g Active ingredient: Viatrozene 16% Other ingredients: Deionised Water, Almond Oil, Nanosomes of Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, D-Panthenol, Gingko Biloba, Chestnut and Witch Hazel, Propylene Glycol, Polysorbate 80, Triethanolamine, Carbomer, Fragrance and Methyl Paraben.