My beauty is now

   In an old but still popular movie "The Girls" dreamy heroine exclaimed: "Lord, how did want to be beautiful! Here I go down the street, and the men we meet or fall, and themselves in a piles stacked … "Agree, beauty – the prerogative of women. For the daughters of Eve has always been and will be a cult, no matter how many testified against them commonplace sayings: "Do not born beautiful, and born happy," "handsome, beautiful, beautiful, beloved," "Beauty take away the years, kindness, they take it away … But are there universal canons of female beauty?

And zvestno that in all historical epochs and among all peoples notions of female beauty were different. In the XX century Philistine did not understand why contemporaries so admired Giocondo Leonardo da Vinci. Fat moronity chick with no eyebrows face "- something like this, they spoke about the Mona Lisa. Nowadays, many young people are surprised sensation produced in the middle of last century, the legendary Marilyn Monroe. "The legs are short, more food of burned hair …" It is possible that in future men will laugh at the current hudyshkami with narrow hips and pimples instead of breasts, but the beauty contest will give priority to small and chubby.

Of course, you can dial with a dozen of the qualities of the ideal beauty of the modern woman. It's healthy appearance, harmony of facial features, beautiful hair, which is proportional figure, radiant, shining eyes, straight white teeth and pleasant voice, an easy walk, good posture, communicative, lively wit, and sincerity. And if craftsmanship make-up artists and cosmetic uyme commonplace face becomes almost a masterpiece. No wonder one of the men sarcastically remarked that women are much prettier than they look …

Three and a half thousand years ago in Egypt the ideal of female beauty had Pharaoh's wife Nefertiti – slender woman with boy-shape. Thin eyebrows, expressive eyes, a bold line of his mouth. To give light disgusted Egyptian beauties dripping juice belladonna, eyelids summed paint carbonate of copper and paints on thick long eyebrows. Incidentally, in this country have created a white and powder. Egyptian queen Cleopatra, too, is revered as the standard, but only thanks to the efforts of artists and filmmakers. It turns out that the queen had a long nose and thin-lipped, but the stronger sex, she captivated the mind and learning.

In ancient Greek ideal of beauty was considered a tall (for those standards) woman with deployed shoulders, thin waist, wide pelvis, flat stomach and shapely legs. Look at the statue of Venus de Milo. Her height 164 cm, chest circumference of 86 cm, waist – 69 cm, hips – 93 people see the beauty defines the so-called Grecian nose, low forehead, large eyes, eyebrows curved line. Hair Greek stacked node or tied at the back ribbon. They bleached their liquor, and then rubbed the lipstick from goat fat and yellow flowers. Noble ladies in Greece is also very fond of makeup: powder, lipstick, rouge.

In ancient China, enthusiastic young fragile women with tiny feet. To leg did not grow, girls tightly bandaged foot. Of particular importance to the Chinese woman gave beauty nails – long, painted red, they were considered evidence of wealth. The local cosmetics charmer used without measure: thick white and green eyebrows, gold teeth … Not depart from them, and Japanese women. However, in the Land of the Rising Sun rosy and belilis only privileged person. To all narrow-eyed beauty has shaved his eyebrows.

"CONDITION beautiful breasts is the width"

In the Middle Ages, during the Inquisition, when the physical perfection was seen as a terrible sin, the ideal of female beauty was considered a lady stayed with tiny hands. Fashionistas "wearing" high brow – for it had to trim the hair above the forehead and eyebrows and eyelashes and pull out. Beauty is not encouraged, but because the medieval beauties have what is called a kind of pale blue tint.

In the Renaissance, in one of the treatises written: "Body of women should be more durable, but the noble forms.The shoulders should be broad, forearm – white, muscular. The first condition is beautiful breasts have their width … "With the paintings Renaissance painters look down on us blurred matron. Its loose (now would say – cellulite), telescopic, beauty packed into velvet toilets.

Trendsetter from the beginning of XVIII century in France. The standard of female beauty was considered a figure with a small graceful head, narrow shoulders, thin waist and rounded hips line. True, the sun, air and water were not among the closest friends in Paris damsels. Whitewash with a person they will not wash for weeks. To drown out the smell of unwashed bodies, drank a lot of spirits, weeks not cleared of hair. In the course had special adaptations for scratching his head and special hammers, which killed insects. Later wash was encouraged.

In Russia beauties grow in their own way. In the Middle Ages to girls from wealthy families forbidden to sew, so they are not accustomed to keep his head bowed and pricked his fingers, to read, so as not to mar the eye, there are many – not to get fat. At night in the hair rubbed the fragrant ointment, his hands were smeared with lard and nutrievym wore cotton gloves, and chest massaging special lipstick. Woke them up early to face the morning sun tinted alive blush. But Russian beauties could not resist the fashion: belilis and rosy until that started to look like at the painted dolls.

Well, what was the ideal of beauty for the brilliant ladies XVIII-early XIX century. Can be understood by viewing the gallery of female portraits of the time: for example, portraits Struyskoy Rokotoff brush or brush Lopukhina Borovikovsky. On the type of Russian and Ukrainian beauties beginning of XX century, too, can be judged by painting, as well as a coffee pictures and postcards. Much of them reflects the tastes of the urban middle class, military officers, officials and students. A sample of such beauty: sleek Madame with large breasts, round hips, plump hands, soft oval face, blush.

After World War canons of beauty in Europe has changed: it became fashionable to do sports and sunbathing. Will become a universal six-month wave, the event was the appearance of bra. The car drove out of use long skirts, and liberated Femina began to show their legs.

In the 60-ies of the ideal of female beauty have Twiggy (in English – a branch). In asexual creation were "handles thinner buttercup, bony knees and protruding clavicle. Women are simply gone crazy – have to slay a hunger to get a little closer to the cherished image. Their idol is reflected mainly the commercial interests of companies producing clothing. So for this imbalance is to thank the "King of Fashion".

OT Farmer with sickle – By Barbie

In our country, things were somewhat different scenario. The Revolution of 1917 and subsequent events "has dealt a devastating blow to all sorts of homely little thing and femininity. The ladies also have to cut their hair and engage in sports, but the cosmetics were ranked among the remnants of the past. If someone has emphasized his sex-epil, it was consid
ered a sign "Light of the genre." Bronze woman with an oar and farm worker with a sickle was the ideal of female beauty in the Soviet way. For many years served as a model of masculine beauty, a kind of universal mother, who could not prodyhu slog for the benefit of the homeland and family.

Thunder started with the beginning of the sexual revolution. Daily TV screens and newspaper pages in the post-Soviet citizenesses steel look of the crowd charmers prodigious beauty. Look at yourself in the mirror, many compatriot decided that the reflection requires replacement. Short legs can not be extended, but you can lose weight and increase chest, change-up and recolor the hair. However, not all were ready to pace yourself diets and lie under the scalpel. And because less daring ladies were quietly suffer from an inferiority complex.

For decades, the media drummed into the heads of poor women, that the stronger sex "sinks" on blondes. Therefore, among them painted a much more natural.According to French stylist Jean-Noel Lemon, begins an affair with men really prefer blondes, but marry – at the brunette, because the best way associated with the hostess and a doting mother.

The legendary Barbie doll, too, played a fateful role – this way for years imposed girls unrealistic idea of beauty. It turns out that women have a youthful nails amassed (and their making) eerie complexes, comparing himself with the "standard". By the way, if the proportions of Barbie was transferred to normal human size, they would have been far more monstrous than the canonical "golden formula" (90-60-90) – 95-34-85!

Think of forcibly imposed standards affect only the fair sex? You are deeply mistaken. Why pay refinements make-up artists, hairdressers, fashion designers, as well as expensive plastic surgery to have their girlfriends, usually men. And then not all of them drew a slim figure. However, the standard is standard, and the poor, if they are quite significant position in society, have to go to all kinds of presentations with high lady, who, they say, the legs from under the armpit, and then take such a wife. Although both clear that the fashionable and sexy woman – two big differences, as they say in Odessa.

Change KINGDOM!

There is a legend. In one of the kingdom lived bald men with snub noses and small eyes. They considered themselves very beautiful. Only one girl stood out "ugly": she had big eyes, long hair and straight nose. Having decided to expel the ugly, unhappy residents evacuated from the country. She wandered through the woods until they met the prince, who fell in love with her and took to his country. There she was found the most beautiful …

And that's not a fairy tale but a reality. Some of our little noticed Femina (especially plump), in order to feel beautiful and desirable, and found an amazing tool. Before they went to the Caucasus, and now voyazhiruyut to Egypt, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. There, they literally do not give passage. At the subconscious level to the eastern man, woman – especially the mother of his children. So beautiful, in their opinion, should have physical indicators, indicating fertility. So enough of our "oboydenke" once out on the busy street of Istanbul, once and forever to say goodbye to the silly complexes.

My friend before going to the U.S. terribly nervous. Normal Kripen'ka brunette suddenly afraid of competition of American beauties, who knew from movies. "What would I do with my jerkwater feysom" – she lamented. However, on returning, half telling of his success at the cowboys. "By the way, the beauties I never saw!" – Summed up completely transformed woman. The same was told a neighbor, returning from the Bulgarian resort. There are known to rest mainly Germans. According to the shaken storyteller, so much attention she had for all his big and uninteresting life. This is understandable: in the background of pale-faced and lean Lorch dark brown hair with a pronounced waist and a pretty face looked almost exotic essence. Well, probably, in some cases, the ladies should not change the appearance and the kingdom.

Olga Tomaszewski